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- WW6MACRO Virus
-
- - The Computer Virus That Infects WinWord Documents
- by Eugene V. Kaspersky (24 Aug 1995)
-
- A new computer virus has been discovered - the virus infects (but does
- not overwrite!) the DOC-files of the WinWord ver.6 format. This virus
- has been named as WW6MACRO.
-
- The virus uses an absolutely new and unusual infection way. It does not hit
- executable (COM, [New] EXE, SYS or BAT) files, it does not overwrite the
- system boot sectors. It infects Word Document files.
-
- The system gets infected while READING the infected file. To infect the
- computer it is necessary to run WinWord ver.6 and open the infected file.
- Then the virus infects all newly created DOC files. After sending the newly
- created and infected file to another (clear) computer that file can infect
- that computer too (while opening in WinWord).
-
- Fortunately, this virus does not call any dangerous trigger routine. The
- place for that routine contains only the string:
-
- That's enough to prove my point
-
- But it is not clear up to now if that virus is free of other "deep" effects
- (i.e. is that virus 100% compatible with WinWord or not). Anyway, that virus
- is a VERY FAST INFECTOR. DOC files are sent/received more often than
- executables.
-
- So, be careful with documents!
-
- Tech part
-
- While opening the Word Document file WinWord executes the internal file
- macros. If that document is infected, WinWord executes infected macros,
- i.e. the virus code. The virus copies the macros into the Global Macros area,
- defines FileSaveAs macro, and then it copies its macros into all the newly
- created documents (i.e. documents which are saved with "Save as" command).
- The virus also converts the Microsoft Document files into Template format
- while saving.
-
- On exiting from WinWord the Global Macros are automatically saved into system
- DOT-files (NORMAL.DOT or other). So on the next WinWord execution the virus
- receives control before reading of the first document, it infects the
- environment while loading the Global Macros from the DOT file.
-
- The infected files contain the strings:
-
- see if we're already installed
- iWW6IInstance
- AAAZFS
- AAAZAO
- That's enough to prove my point
-
- and other.
-
- The WINWORD6.INI on infected system contains the file:
- WW6I= 1
- On the first execution of the viruscode (i.e. on the first opening of the
- infected file) the MessageBox with digit "1" appears.
-
- Copyright 1995 Eugene V. Kaspersky
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