Virus.BAT.Hot2Trot

Parent class: VirWare

Viruses and worms are malicious programs that self-replicate on computers or via computer networks without the user being aware; each subsequent copy of such malicious programs is also able to self-replicate. Malicious programs which spread via networks or infect remote machines when commanded to do so by the “owner” (e.g. Backdoors) or programs that create multiple copies that are unable to self-replicate are not part of the Viruses and Worms subclass. The main characteristic used to determine whether or not a program is classified as a separate behaviour within the Viruses and Worms subclass is how the program propagates (i.e. how the malicious program spreads copies of itself via local or network resources.) Most known worms are spread as files sent as email attachments, via a link to a web or FTP resource, via a link sent in an ICQ or IRC message, via P2P file sharing networks etc. Some worms spread as network packets; these directly penetrate the computer memory, and the worm code is then activated. Worms use the following techniques to penetrate remote computers and launch copies of themselves: social engineering (for example, an email message suggesting the user opens an attached file), exploiting network configuration errors (such as copying to a fully accessible disk), and exploiting loopholes in operating system and application security. Viruses can be divided in accordance with the method used to infect a computer:

• file viruses
• boot sector viruses
• macro viruses
• script viruses

Any program within this subclass can have additional Trojan functions. It should also be noted that many worms use more than one method in order to spread copies via networks.

Class: Virus

Viruses replicate on the resources of the local machine. Unlike worms, viruses do not use network services to propagate or penetrate other computers. A copy of a virus will reach remote computers only if the infected object is, for some reason unrelated to the virus function, activated on another computer. For example: when infecting accessible disks, a virus penetrates a file located on a network resource a virus copies itself to a removable storage device or infects a file on a removable device a user sends an email with an infected attachment.

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Platform: BAT

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Description

Technical Details

It is a dangerous nonmemory resident parasitic BAT virus. It searches for .BAT files in the current and parent directories, then writes itself to the end of the file. The virus uses an infecting way similar to parasitic COM infectors - it writes its code to the end of the file and inserts GoTo_Virus command to the file header:

+---------------+
�@echo off      � Jmp-to-virus commands
+------�goto HotToTrot3�
�+---->�:To            �
��     +---------------� Original BAT file commands
��     �...            �
��     �...            �
��     �...            �
��     +---------------�
��+----�goto Trot3     � Jump to return-to-DOS command
���    +---------------�
+----->�:HotToTrot3    � Main virus code
��    �...            �
��    �...            �
+-----�goto To        � Return to host program
+--->�Trot3:         � Return to DOS
+---------------+

While infecting a file the virus accesses DOS functions (INT 21h). To do that it creates and runs two temporary COM files - saves their hexadecimal dump to disk and converts it to binary file by using DEBUG (if there are no DEBUG in PATH, the virus may corrupt the files while infecting them).

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