Junior Virus

Alias:
Strain:
detected when:July, 1992
where:Sofia, Bulgaria
Classification:Memory resident, appending, COM file infector
Length:234 bytes

Preconditions

Operating System(s):PC/MS-DOS. Uses several undocumented and version- dependent
Version/Release:Works under PC-DOS 3.30. Haven't checked for other versions.
Computer model(s):Any MS-DOS computer
Caroname:Junior

Attributes

Easy identification:---

Type of Infection:

Any executable file, the first 2 bytes of which are not 'MZ' or 0C4h. Virus is appended to file.

Infection Technique:
Infection Trigger:Execution of a file.
Storage Media affected:Any storage media with MS-DOS compatible file system.
Interrupts hooked:INT 78h, 21h, 24h (only during infection), INT 13h (only during infection, and only if it is not already intercepted).
Stealth:
Tunneling/Selfprot:
Oligo/Polymorphism:
Encoding Method:
Damage:---
Damage Trigger:---
Particularities:The virus traps INT 21h/AX=4B00h in a very unusual way. It puts an INT 78h instruction at TerminateAddress-2 and intrcepts INT 78h itself.
Similarities:---

Agents

Countermeasures:---
Standard means:Delete infected files, restore clean copies.

Acknowledgements

Location:Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg, Germany
Classification by:Vesselin Bontchev
Documentation by:Vesselin Bontchev
Date:10-August-1992
Information Source:Reverse analysis of virus code

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