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Haifa

Classification

Category:

Malware

Type:

Virus

Aliases:

  • Haifa

Summary

This virus contains following text string:

HAIFA VIRUS V1.12 WRITTEN BY Y.S GUEST STARS T.S. & I.F. MADE IN ISRAEL I AM TIRED. PLEASE WAKE ME UP ON TUE 12.4.3456 PRESS RESET TO CONTINUE...

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Technical Details

The virus searches specifically for files with ASM, PAS, TXT and DOC extensions (as well as COM and EXE).

ASM files have the first 76 bytes overwritten with a assembler routine which is designed (when assembled) to overwrite the beginning of the first hard drive with garbage.

PAS files have the first 23 bytes overwritten with the text:

CONST VIRUS= "HAIFA";

TXT and DOC files are corrupted by having text inserted at approximate half-way point:

OOPS! Hope I didn't ruin anything!!! Well, nobody reads those stupied DOCS anyway!

Although this virus has no stealth capability, it contains a self-modifying encryption routine such that each infection appears differently on disks.

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