HILLY Virus

Alias:---
Strain:(Weakly related to Lamer strain)
detected when:---
where:---
Classification:System Virus (Bootblock,Resident)
Length:1.Length(Byte)on storage medium:1024 Byte 2.Length(Byte)in RAM: 30 Byte at $60000 + $500 Byte at $7f300

Preconditions

Operating System(s):AMIGA-DOS
Version/Release:1.2 only (absolute DoIO)
Computer model(s):AMIGA 500,1000,2000
Caroname:Lamer.Hilly

Attributes

Easy identification:---

Type of Infection:

Bootblock, overwriting without checks

Infection Technique:
Infection Trigger:Reset
Storage Media affected:All devices controlled through DOIO-requests Diskettes + some harddisks
Interrupts hooked:VBI hooked to reserved function calls in Sysbase
Stealth:
Tunneling/Selfprot:
Oligo/Polymorphism:
Encoding Method:
Damage:Overwriting bootblocks, every second infection generates a random number and overwrites this block with the virus code. Overwriting memory sections without previous allocation.
Damage Trigger:2nd infection (2nd boot with unprotected media)
Particularities:Checks for special kickstart version (patched at $fc0090)
Similarities:Damage routing adapted from Lamer bootvirus strain.

Agents

Countermeasures:AVM0.235(internal product),VT2.40,VC6.03
Standard means:VC6.03

Acknowledgements

Location:Virus Test Center, University Hamburg, FRG
Classification by:S. Freitag
Documentation by:S. Freitag
Date:17.12.1992
Information Source:Original virus code

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