JEFF BUTONIC 3.0 Virus

Alias:---
Strain:---
detected when:---
where:North Germany
Classification:link virus (directory type), resident
Length:1. length on storage medium: 2916 byte 2. length in RAM : 2876 byte

Preconditions

Operating System(s):AMIGA-DOS
Version/Release:1.2/33.166, 1.2/33.180, 1.3/34.5
Computer model(s):AMIGA 500, AMIGA 1000, AMIGA 2000A, AMIGA 2000B
Caroname:Butonic.3_00

Attributes

Easy identification:typical text: --- identification by the following entry (invisible in ASCII editors) in startup-sequence as 1st entry: "$A0,$A0,$A0,$20,$9B,$41"; identification using a disk manager: a file $A0,$A0,$A0 (invisible) exists in root directory, with length=2916 byte; identification by text in memory: "Hi. Jeff's speaking here... (w) by the genious BUTONIC... V3.00/9.2.89 - Gen.0026 Greetings to *Hackmack*,*Atlantic*, & Alex,Frank,Wolfram, Gerlach,Miguel,Klaus,Snoopy-Data!"; this text is displayed as alert message after destruction of a disk structure; identification by transient damage: window titles are changed to following ones: "Ich Brauch jetzt Alk!", "Bitte keinen Wodka!", "Mehr Buszyklen fuer den Prozessor", "Paula meint, Agnus sei zu dick"

Type of Infection:

self-identification method: virus searches for the following entry in startup-sequence: $A0,$A0,$A0,$A0,$9B,$41 (invisible in ASCII editors); system infection: RAM resident, reset resident

Infection Technique:
Infection Trigger:using unprotected disk-like devices
Storage Media affected:all bootable and disk-like devices
Interrupts hooked:---
Stealth:
Tunneling/Selfprot:
Oligo/Polymorphism:
Encoding Method:
Damage:permanent damage: destroys directory structure; transient damage: manipulation of window titles; alert message after destroying the structure of a bootable device
Damage Trigger:permanent damage: (to be analysed) transient damage: (to be analysed)
Particularities:DoIO vector and KickTag pointer are misused
Similarities:author of this virus evidently knows BGS virus

Agents

Countermeasures:CHECKVECTORS 2.3, VT 1.94
Standard means:CHECKVECTORS 2.3 or VT 1.94 with deletion of "no name" file entry (see above) with a disk manager and correction of the startup-sequence

Acknowledgements

Location:Virus Test Center, University Hamburg, Germany
Classification by:Alfred Manthey Rojas
Documentation by:Alfred Manthey Rojas
Date:10-February-1991
Information Source:---

(c) 1996 Virus-Test-Center, University of Hamburg