macro.office.halfcros.
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Macro.Office.Halfcros.a
This is multi-platform macro-virus. It infects two MS Office97 applications: Word documents and Excel sheets. The main part of the virus code is encrypted and placed in the virus body as a random-letters comments. In case of need, the virus gets these comments, decrypts them, convert to the macro instructions and executes them. As a result, the main replication routines are invisible by viewing macro code in the Tools/Macro menu.
In non-encrypted form, there are just a few virus macros present: events hookers and decryption routine. The virus hooks three events: Excel sheets closing, and Word documents opening and closing (Workbook_Deactivate, Document_Open, Document_Close). In all these cases, the virus decrypts and calls the infection routine. The virus also creates the infected BOOK1 Excel sheet in the Excel auto-start directory.
The virus disables the MS Office virus protection by directly accessing the system registry. Starting from 0:10pm till 0:25pm, the virus displays the message box:
Wonder v2.0 by ThE wEiRd GeNiUs
Its time for lunch
where is the name of current user.
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