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F-Secure Virus Descriptions : Doomboot.D

[Summary] | [Disinfection] | [Detailed Description] | [Detection]



NAME:Doomboot.D
ALIAS:SymbOS/Doomboot.D

Summary

Doomboot.D is a close variant to Doomboot.C. The major difference between Doomboot.D and Doomboot.C is that Doomboot.D contains corrupted font file from Fontal.A and theme file that changes the background and other images on the phone.

Doomboot.D pretends to be theme pack that contains images of celebrity Angelina Jolie, unlike most such trojans the Doomboot.D actually does contain the theme files. But in addition it also contains trojan files, that crash the phone when it is being rebooted.

If you have installed Doomboot.D, the most important thing is not to reboot the phone and follow the disinfection instruction in this description.

If you have rebooted the phone and the phone will not start again, the phone can be recovered with hard format key code that is entered in the phone boot.

Disinfection

Disinfection with F-Secure Anti-Virus

F-Secure Mobile Anti-Virus will detect and disinfect Doomboot.D

1. Remove the SIS file in which the Doomboot.D was installed
2. Open web browser on the phone
3. Go to http://phoneav.com
4. Select link "Download antivirus software for your smartphone" and then select phone model
5. Download the file and select open after download
7. Install F-Secure Mobile Anti-Virus
8. Go to applications menu and start Anti-Virus
9. Activate Anti-Virus and scan all files

Disinfection for the cases when phone is already rebooted and cannot start up

CAUTION! this method will remove all data on the device including calendar and phone numbers

Sometimes Doomboot.D installs the corrupted file on memory card, so try to boot without the card. If the phone still does not boot use the instructions below.

1. Power off the phone
2. Hold following three buttons down "answer call" + "*" + "3"
3. Keep holding the buttons and power on the phone
4. Depending on the model, you either get text "formatting" or startup dialog that asks for initial phone settings
5. Your phone is now fomatted and can be used again


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Detailed Description

Installation to system Doomboot.D installs corrupted system binary into C:\ drive of the phone. When phone boots this corrupted binary will be loaded instead of the correct ones, and the phone will crash at boot.

Spreading in "Angelina Joulie Theme(Universal Theme).sis"

Payload Installs corrupted system binaries and theme skin files to fool the user.


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Detection

Generic detection for Doomboot.D for F-Secure Mobile Anti-Virus has been published at on September 7th, 2005 in database build number 48.


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Write-up: Jarno Niemela September 14th, 2005;

F-Secure Corporation