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ATechnical Seminar Report OnCellular Virus Attack
BY
NARESH .B
Under Guidance ofMr.G.VENU
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A computer program that is designed to replicate
itself by copying itself into the other programsstored in a computer. It may be benign or have anegative effect, such as causing a program tooperate incorrectly or corrupting a computer's
memory.
Virus, What is it ?
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MOBILE VIRUS:-
The viruses for WAP-enabled mobile devicesare the mobile virus.
CELL PHONE VIRUS:-
Viruses that can attack WAP-enabled
Cell phones
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WAP SECUIRITY PROBLEM:-
WAP gateway securityOperating systemUse of SMS
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WAP INFRASTRUCTURE
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Motive to create virus:-
Viruses are written for a variety of reasons
curiosityChallengeto gain wider attention
some antivirus companies want to enternew market
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Virus Actions:-
Send SMS text messages to all thenumbers found within cell phone
damage by deleting or modifying thephone book
starting to make phone calls to pay-per-minute numbers
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CURRENT THREAT:-
CABIR
Symb/Cabir-A is a virus writtenspecifically for N-Gage, 3650, orother Nokia Series 60 mobile phonesrunning in the Symbian operating
system. The virus spreads as a .sispackage, named as Caribe.sis
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Cabir requires:-
approving connection from unknowndevice
approving receiving a file from unknowndevice
approving receiving a application fromunknown device
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Reason to create cabir:-
There are two reasons behind Cabir creators:
some antivirus companies want to enter new
market.
May be Microsoft wants to show how insecureSymbian OS is compared to their MS Smart phone
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Working function of cabir:-
When launched, the worm displays a message on thescreen: either 'Caribe' or 'Caribe - VZ/29a' . wormitself is an SIS format file, called caribe.sis, of 15092
or 15104 bytes in size . This file contains threeobjects:
caribe.app: 11932 / 11944 bytes in sizeflo.mdl: 2544 bytes in sizecaribe.rsc: 44 bytes in size
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The worm installs the three file to the followingdirectories
:\system\apps\caribe\caribe.app:\system\apps\caribe\flo.mdl:\system\apps\caribe\caribe.rsc
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GET RID OF THIS VIRUS:-
The directory SYMBIANSECUREDATA which theworm creates is hidden and cannot be seen by the userof the infected telephone. Fexplorer isused todelete those hidden files.
C:\SYSTEM\SYMBIANSECUREDATA\CARIBESECURITYMANAGER\ CARIBE.SISC:\SYSTEM\SYMBIANSECUREDATA\CARIBE
SECURITYMANAGER\ CARIBE.APPC:\SYSTEM\SYMBIANSECUREDATA\CARIBESECURITYMANAGER\ CARIBE.RSCC:\SYSTEM\RECOGS\FLO.MDL
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CONCLUSION:-
. There are so many antivirus applications forSeries 60 are already available in market.
We should not accept files from unknownpeople without confirmation .
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