Fergie's Tech Blog

Crossplatform Virus - The Latest Proof of Concept

Via The Kaspersky Analyst's Blog.

We’ve received a new sample: another cross platform virus. This sample is the latest attempt to create malicious code which will infect both Linux and Win32 systems. It’s therefore been given a double name: Virus.Linux.Bi.a/ Virus.Win32.Bi.a

The virus is written in assembler and is relatively simple: it only infects files in the current directory. However, it is interesting in that it is capable of infecting the different file formats used by Linux and Windows - ELF and PE format files respectively.

posted by Fergie @ 4/07/2006 07:12:00 AM