THE "IDIOT" MALWARE - Virus Investigations 37

hello guys and gals me muta horn welcome to another episode of the virus investigations this time we have an interesting new set of viruses to show you now up until this point we showed you a lot of those crypto viruses we showed you a lot of those Ransom viruses and a lot of those flavor awesome ones I think what some of my favorite has probably been need dose viruses just because of how creative they are but today we have viruses that are literally designed to chew up all the resources in your computer and most importantly annoy you so for this I want to get right into the situation so here we have a virtual machine of Windows XP this is a virgin virgin copy of Windows XP so virgin it's actually uh not no I don't think it knows that it's in a virtual machine at this point it's it's got no capabilities there's nothing installed going on so it is one of those situations where I guess you could say it is completely unaware of its surroundings one that will one actual topic that we'll get to later on in the series but anyways over here we are going to launch the you are an idiot virus now this is a small harmless little virus that basically uses a browser exploit to gain access to just replicate processes on your computer now when we're talking about browser vulnerabilities quick little side note always make sure your browser is updated all right use a browser that is known for its security because these kind of things happen a lot more than you think you know Microsoft Internet Explorer was [ __ ] filthy with them you know Firefox can get kind of hectic you know as long as you stay updated on your browsers and again you don't go to those shady websites you should be fine I usually tend to stay away from you know Chrome and [ __ ] just because uh me and Google don't have a great history when it comes to mail or protection anyways let's open up the text document I have over here now in order to get access to it we have to use a web archive variant of this virus just because um it doesn't work anymore we need to use the web archive variant and we need to use an older internet explorer so right over here we popped it up this is as fresh as we're gonna go go to the home page this is Internet Explorer 8 so we're just gonna paste it and get ready to block some of your ears real quick I might have to edit it out but going into it you essentially have what appears to be a lovely lovely little that says you already now over here it's not exactly ideal to work just because we don't we have something called a pop-up blocker enabled if you go to your page over here I think it's safety tools pop-up blocker you can turn it on or off I thought it is off so I don't think you should have an issue I think if I reefer ah there it goes trying to turn it off and bam holy [ __ ] Christ ladies and gentlemen we have reached maximum impact it's yeah every all my windows are moving around I can't exactly turn it on if you look at the bottom all my okay we're just gonna we're just gonna kill the kill the audio real quick this is yeah a little is a little too loud dude let me just let me just block that off Christ there we go there we go it's like killing my ears but we've got you are an idiot just floating around the screen over here now as you can see everything's self-replicating so if I keep turning stuff off like let's turn that off it just opens more and more programs now if I control-alt-delete real quick not there I think I just totally killed myself but over here we have a bunch of processes running and as you can see it's you are an idiot windows Internet Explorer we can go to the process tab and just see a lovely set of not really a whole lot use of thing it's just performance we're at 12% usage so if I keep turning it off by the way it's at 12 internet explorer variant so let's just keep turning it off real quick and more and more fire up and as you can see my computer's resources are piling up right now we're reaching at 53% CPU usage yes it's a dual core system but for [ __ ] sake it should not be that bad you know the more and more we close it the higher that number goes pay attention to that number real quick we're already at like nineteen browsers running memory usage is actually not showing up properly it's actually page file usage they used to be a lot more common back in the day when we had like you know 512 megabytes of RAM on like nowadays where computers can have like well this system has 32 gigs inside it we're passing off closing as much as we can Trent 25% we're we're now alright we're almost at 30 internet explorer browsers I wonder how far we can go before the system come yeah at this point you can see like the windows or not moving that fast we are not able to process this kind of AIDS of course you realize the more and more you try to fight it the worse it's gonna get the more for every window I exit out there's always like ten more that pop up so already I like 50 for the CP usage is spiking up like 86% so that's a crazy astronomical amount for obviously just browsing the Internet so yeah it's I think at some point I'm gonna reach in a section where there's gonna be a point where I can't load up maybe anymore internet explorer variants or the systems these are gonna crash and I feel like I'm waiting for a total system crash let me see if I can pull that out of a pull that out of a hat real quick so uh yeah I think I think we're at a point where like even though I killed some of the windows like you see the system's clogged up right now we're seeing a 90 percent usage with like what a window or to open late well not not a window or two and where we just got a bunch kicking in so yeah I know the system is completely denial the like we wouldn't totally denied anything like it's just it's a gone system you know you can look inside the process list you know ie Explorer they got so many tiny variants just popping in consuming bits of CPU here and there and like there's just no way to do it like if I go over here and I can't even manage like the task manager properly you can terminating yes I know I know the loss of data trust me I would love to lose data yeah you can't do it you can't it's impossible like that I I'm pretty sure the time okay all right all right the the the the virtual GPU is now starting to [ __ ] up that's great we're gonna we're gonna we're going to send this to the we're gonna we're gonna just kill this virtual machine to the recycle bin yes a virtual machine was harmed in today's video all right ladies and gentlemen that was a lovely example of what we like to call a fork bomb or a wabbit which is an actual computing term by the way but let's talk about what just happened and what kind of a virus that really was now it was fun to see that and it really wasn't malicious you can actually do it yourself of course of your own volition I don't believe it can siphon any data out of it but again be careful I mean I showed you the link so it's I'm not gonna sit there and hide it it's it's you are an idiot it's a JavaScript variant it's not what I believe to be harmful again all up in to your own discipline if you want to touch any of these it's all on you not on me I'm not responsible for computers being busted but focusing on what something like this did it didn't siphon data no but what it did was essentially a fork bomb or a wabbit does and itself replicates the rabbits like to repopulate so - so do these computer programs that that's why they're called rabbit viruses for a reason now when we're talking about self-replication and computer terms the actual intention of this is denial of service on a local machine when it comes down to processes let's talk about processes they're programs right so let's say you open up a video game a internet browser and a calculator on your computer so you have three processes running these consume three processes on a process list or a process table so to speak now what this type of virus does is it makes up so many processes that it consumes all those slots on a process table and by consuming all those spots on a process table it also consumes the resources that are available on the computer so that includes your CPU that includes your available RAM or maybe even your GPU memory or an utilization so you've got all those things consumed on your computer and then the intention over here is you have so much open that it a choose up either all of your system rendering it effectively useless which is what you just saw with that virtual machine we were clocked at 90% CPU it was not giving me anything the system was so slow that you couldn't use it at any moment you couldn't use it from those basic of tasks or be it causes a system to crash had I let a system like that run or gave it less resources or designed it in such a way I guarantee you would have given some form of a blue screen or a total system crash and that's that's plausible that's okay when you run out of resources when your computer is resource starved it's not going to function at all and that's the only way to fix it is when it totally nukes itself and restarts from a fresh initialization and that is the only cure to something like this if you have a rabbit running in your computer anyways the best way to do is just completely recycle your computer restart it and then you shouldn't have it the only way can get truly nefarious is of course is if something like this is rude to run at startup so as soon as your Windows boots up it loads this program and start self-replicating immediately that is something you'll have to be careful of maybe you can fix it by going into safe mode or whatever but sometimes it's often finding the rogue file that starts up and causes the replication process and wiping it from the beginning but until that's done you're just gonna have a bunch of rabbits repopulating in your computer over and over and over again effectively rendering it useless and that's the intention of a virus like this it's not there for money it's there to prevent somebody from getting access to their computer or using it in such a way I mean if there is a hacker out there they could launch a rabbit rillette you completely cut off from your system you know to the point where it's unusable and they may be able to do something in the background I mean it's not something that's so out of the ordinary there are obvious case uses for a rabbit a rabbit virus or fork bombs to exist whether it's forcing a restart or it's forcing somebody to be completely cut off from their system because they just can't do anything with it that is a intention of attack that does have validity to it but ladies and gentlemen that was an harmless little fork mom that we saw a little rabbit running around in a computer yes that virtual machine died today I wasn't keeping it around I don't use Windows XP anymore this is me Mootoo heart if you liked what you saw please like comment and subscribe just like me 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Length: 10min 25sec (625 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 07 2019