SENDARIAN Virus

Alias:---
Strain:REVENGE 1.2G Virus Strain
detected when:
where:Australia
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:Revenge_1_2G.Sendarian

Attributes

Easy identification:Typical text: 'fuck','off','Sendarian #1! Count'

Type of Infection:

System infection: RAM resident, reset resident, bootblock

Infection Technique:
Infection Trigger:reset (CONTROL+Left-AMIGA+Right-AMIGA) operation: any disk access
Storage Media affected:only floppy disks (3.5" and 5.25")
Interrupts hooked:Vertical Blank interrupt (IV 5)
Stealth:
Tunneling/Selfprot:
Oligo/Polymorphism:
Encoding Method:
Damage:Permanent damage: overwriting bootblock Transient damage: after infecting a disk and next reset, mouse pointer will look like a penis after one minute.
Damage Trigger:Permanent damage: reset; any disk access Transient damage: infecting a disk followed by reset and 1 minute delay.
Particularities:Resident programs using the CoolCaptureVector are shutdown; virus uses DoIOVector and counts vertical blanks until he will bring up his new pointer; Virus behaves as Antivirus-Virus detecting BYTE BANDIT, SCA and SCA clones.
Similarities:REVENGE 1.2G virus strain

Agents

Countermeasures:CHECKVECTORS 2.2,GUARDIAN 1.2,VIRUSX 4.0, own suicide function (see elimination)
Standard means:CHECKVECTORS 2.2

Acknowledgements

Location:Virus Test Center, University Hamburg, Germany
Classification by:Wolfram Schmidt
Documentation by:Wolfram Schmidt
Date:15-July-1991
Information Source:---

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