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[ILUG] Dual Platform (Window/Linux) Virus ???

[ILUG] Dual Platform (Window/Linux) Virus ???

Donncha O Caoimh donncha.ocaoimh at tradesignals.com
Mon Apr 2 10:20:06 IST 2001


I have the source code to it in a mime-encoded/text rar file somehwere.
Someone on /. found the author's website. Haven't looked it yet though.

Doncha.


Gerard J Keating wrote:
> 
> Symantec add the following at
> http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.peelf.2132.html
> 
> W32.Peelf.2132 is a proof-of-concept virus that has not been reported in the
> wild. It searches for and infects Microsoft Windows PE files and Linux ELF files
> on Microsoft Windows systems and on Linux systems. This virus has the ability to
> infect files from both Windows and Linux operating systems at the same time. The
> infection code within this virus understands the file structure of both Windows
> and Linux executable files. This gives it the ability to infect files on either
> system. When an infected file is executed under Microsoft Windows, the virus
> will search the current folder and up to 20 folders above it for all PE and ELF




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