10_Past_3.748

Alias:Tea Time
Strain:10_Past_3 strain
detected when:
where:
Classification:COM-infector
Length:748

Preconditions

Operating System(s):MS-DOS
Version/Release:None
Computer model(s):PC's
Caroname:10_Past_3.748

Attributes

Easy identification:

Type of Infection:

The virus appends itself to the files Selfrec in memory: mem[1ACh..1AFh] = 46h 42h 06h 22h Selfrec on disk: file[lastbyte-1..lastbyte] = 06h 22h

Infection Technique:
Infection Trigger:Exec and (4<=LengthCOM<=64496)
Storage Media affected:
Interrupts hooked:21h/4Bh
Stealth:
Tunneling/Selfprot:
Oligo/Polymorphism:
Encoding Method:
Damage:Transient: Reboot during INT 21h; Transient: tamper with interrupt vectors so as to hang PC; Transient: install new kbd handler which affects Shft & Ctrl states. Permanent: None
Damage Trigger:Transient: year>=1991 and day=22 then reboot Transient: year>=1991 and day=29 then trash INT 13h;year>=1991 and day= 1 then trash INT 9h;year>=1991 and day=10 then trash INT Dh;year>=1991 and day=16 then trash INT 10h. Transient: 15h10<=time<=15h13 then if INT 21h occurs theninstall keyboard handler which sets Shft & Ctrl statesrandomly on about 1 in 11 keystrokes. Permanent: None
Particularities:None Displayed text: None Not displayed text: None Reported in South Africa; purportedly written bya person with the pseudonym Marvin Giskard.
Similarities:10_Past_3.789

Agents

Countermeasures:
Standard means:

Acknowledgements

Location:Virus Test Center, University Hamburg, FRG
Classification by:Paul Ducklin
Documentation by:Paul Ducklin
Date:1993-01-11
Information Source:Caroentry (autom.converter by S.Freitag)

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