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Glossary

Short description

Win32/Elef.A is a file infector.

Executable file infection

The virus searches local drives for files with the following file extensions:

.exe

Executables are infected by appending the code of the virus to the last section.

The host file is modified in a way that causes the virus to be executed prior to running the original code.

The size of the inserted code is 1587 B .

Other information

The virus inserts the following text/marker into the header of the infected executable files:

The marker is used to determine whether the file is already infected or not.

The virus contains the following text:

This is the stupid MFSV. Thx to sl0n.