| Alias: | -- |
| Strain: | -- |
| detected when: | January 1989 |
| where: | Elmshorn, FRG |
| Classification: | system virus (bootblock), resident |
| Length: | 1. length on storage medium: 1024 byte 2. length in RAM : 1024 byte |
Preconditions | |
| Operating System(s): | AMIGA-DOS |
| Version/Release: | 1.2/33.180 |
| Computer model(s): | AMIGA 500, AMIGA 1000, AMIGA 2000A, AMIGA 2000B |
| Caroname: | Gaddafi.Original |
Attributes | |
| Easy identification: | typical text: 'GADDAFI VIRUS ! Spreading strictly forbitten !!!(c)88 JG For update service call:0222/1597' (phone number of the austrian lotto association) |
Type of Infection: | self-identification method: --- system infection: RAM resident, reset resident, bootblock |
| Infection Technique: | |
| Infection Trigger: | reset (CONTROL + Left-AMIGA + Right-AMIGA) operation: any access on bootblock (sectors 0/1) |
| Storage Media affected: | only floppy disks (3.5" and 5.25") |
| Interrupts hooked: | --- |
| Stealth: | |
| Tunneling/Selfprot: | |
| Oligo/Polymorphism: | |
| Encoding Method: | |
| Damage: | permanent damage: overwriting bootblock possibly malfunction of drives DF0: or DF1: by misusing their stepper motors transient damage: stepper motors of drives DF0: and DF1: are used after 7th reset to produce some 'sounds' |
| Damage Trigger: | permanent damage: reset operation: any access on bootblock transient damage: after 7th reset |
| Particularities: | uses DoIOVector other resident programs using the system resident list (KickTagPointer, KickMemPointer) or one of the capture vectors are shut down, CoolCap- ture vector is used as entry to initialize the resident structure for the virus ColdCapture and CoolCapture vector are initia- lized with adress $00040258 (after 7th reset) where a program may lay or not, normally causes an error in execbase structure (yellow screen during system reboot) |
| Similarities: | --- |
Agents | |
| Countermeasures: | 'CHECKVECTORS 2.2','GUARDIAN 1.2', 'VIRUSX 4.0' |
| Standard means: | 'CHECKVECTORS 2.2' |
Acknowledgements | |
| Location: | Virus Test Center, University Hamburg, FRG |
| Classification by: | Oliver Meng, Wolfram Schmidt |
| Documentation by: | Alfred Manthey Rojas |
| Date: | 5-June-1990 |
| Information Source: | --- |
(c) 1996 Virus-Test-Center, University of Hamburg