MISiS

Alias:Zharinov
Strain:-
detected when:
where:
Classification:Master-boot record (HD) infector, DBR (Floppy)- infector, re
Length:121

Preconditions

Operating System(s):MS-DOS
Version/Release:All models
Computer model(s):PC's
Caroname:MISiS

Attributes

Easy identification:

Type of Infection:

Bootsector infection. Selfrec on disk: PDisk[0/0/1][0,1] = 0C933H { first two bytes ofMBR or BOOT }

Infection Technique:
Infection Trigger:Boot from an infected floppy (HARD),INT 13 and AH=02 and CX=1 and DH=0 and DL<80h (FLOPPY)
Storage Media affected:Harddisks, Disketts
Interrupts hooked:13/02
Stealth:
Tunneling/Selfprot:
Oligo/Polymorphism:-
Encoding Method:
Damage:Transient: Displays colored text strings in Russian,waits for a keystroke. Permanent: -
Damage Trigger:Transient: INT 13 and AH=02 and CX=1 and DH=00 and DL<=81h andBYTE PTR [0:46C]=0 and VideoMode<=7{ MBR or floppy Boot sector is being read andBIOS ticks low byte is 0 } Permanent: -
Particularities:The virus resides in the interrupt vector table. The virus resides at the memory address: 0020:0053 The virus uses a special coding style to fool most disassemblers. Displayed text: { they are in cyrillics } The virus is interesting since unlike other MBR/BOOTinfectors, it keeps resident only a part of its code.The rest of the code is read from an infected MBRwhen necessary (to infect a floppy).
Similarities:

Agents

Countermeasures:
Standard means:

Acknowledgements

Location:Virus Test Center, University Hamburg, FRG
Classification by:Dmitry O. Gryaznov
Documentation by:Dmitry O. Gryaznov
Date:1993-12-22
Information Source:Caroentry (autom.converter by S.Freitag)

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