QRRY

Alias:
Strain:-
detected when:
where:
Classification:Master-boot record (HD) infector, DBR (Floppy)- infector, re
Length:1 kilobyte(s)

Preconditions

Operating System(s):MS-DOS
Version/Release:None
Computer model(s):PC's
Caroname:QRRY

Attributes

Easy identification:

Type of Infection:

Bootsector infection. Selfrec in memory: None Selfrec on disk: bootrec[0]==EBh & bootrec[0170h]==ABCDh

Infection Technique:
Infection Trigger:INT 13h & AX==0201h & CX=0001h
Storage Media affected:Harddisks, Disketts
Interrupts hooked:13/0201
Stealth:
Tunneling/Selfprot:
Oligo/Polymorphism:
Encoding Method:
Damage:Transient: None Permanent: Overwrites the first nine sectors of the first threetracks on any disk or diskette head that's read from.
Damage Trigger:Transient: None Permanent: Real_Time_Clock_Month == 12
Particularities:The virus resides at the top of memory, reducing the BIOS memory size at 0000:0413. None Displayed text: None Not displayed text: None Simple MBR infector with rather nasty damage; "QRRY" is justsome ASCII that happens to appear in the code of the virus.
Similarities:None

Agents

Countermeasures:
Standard means:

Acknowledgements

Location:Virus Test Center, University Hamburg, FRG
Classification by:David M. Chess, IBM
Documentation by:David M. CHess, IBM
Date:1993-03-08
Information Source:Caroentry (autom.converter by S.Freitag)

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