Seminar On Cellular Virus

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Seminar OnCellular Virus
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INTRODUCTION

• Viruses in the cell-phone arena are new but there
  are many parallel between computer and mobile
  phones in terms of mallicious code.
• The first cell-phone viruse been sited is
  CABIR-A.
• CABIR-A is a virus written specially for Nokia
  Series 60 mobile phones running on the Symbian
  operating system.
• The virus spreads as a .sis package,named as
  Caribe.sis.
• This topic will discuss the virus affecting the
  cellular phones and what all remedies can be
  taken to overcome this problem.

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VIRUS

• It is a computer program that is designed to
  replicate itself by copying itself into other
  programs.
• Mobile Virus-It is an electronic virus that
  targets mobile phones.

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HISTORY

• The first instance of a mobile virus occurred in
  August 2004.
• In July 2004, computer scientists released a
  proof-of-concept mobile virus named Cabir .
• In March 2005 it was reported that a computer
  worm called Commwarrior-A has been infecting
  Symbian series 60 mobile phones.

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COMMON MOBILE VIRUSES

• CABIR- Infects mobile phones running on Symbian
  OS.
• DUTS -A parasitic file infector virus and is the
  first known virus for the PocketPC platform.
• SKULLS- A trojan horse piece of code. Once
  downloaded, the virus, called Skulls, replaces
  all phone desktop icons with images of a skull.
• COMWARR- First worm to use MMS messages in order
  to spread to other devices .

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MOTIVE TO CREATE VIRUS

• Challenge
• Some antivirus companies want to enter new market
  
• To gain wider attention

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VIRUS ACTION

• Damage by deleting or modifying the phone book.
• Starting to make phone calls to pay-per- minute
  numbers .
• Send SMS text messages to all the numbers
  found within cell phone.

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SPREADING VECTORS

• Bluetooth
• MMS
• Web downloads
• Memory cards

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WAP SECUIRITY PROBLEM

• WAP gateway security
• Operating system
• Use of SMS

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WAP GATEWAY SECURITY
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SYMBIAN OPERATING SYSTEM

• It is mainly designed for mobile devices.
• It has associated libraries,user interface
  frameworks and reference implimeatations.

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CURRENT THREAT

• CABIR
• Symb/Cabir-A is a virus written
  specifically for N-Gage, 3650, or other Nokia
  Series 60 mobile phones running in the Symbian
  operating system. The virus spreads as a .sis
  package, named as Caribe.sis.

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CABIR REQUIRES

• Approving receiving a file from unknown device.
  
  
  
  
• Approving receiving a application from unknown
  device.
• Approving connections from unknown devices.

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REASONS 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 insecure
  Symbian OS is compared to their MS Smart phone.

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WORKING OF CABIR

• When launched, the worm displays a message on
  the screen either 'Caribe' or 'Caribe - VZ/29a'
  . worm itself is an SIS format file, called
  caribe.sis, of 15092 or 15104 bytes in size .
  This file contains three objects
• caribe.app 11932 / 11944 bytes in size
• flo.mdl 2544 bytes in size
• caribe.rsc 44 bytes in size

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PRECAUTIONS

• IF is your bluetooth on and you are receiving
  file be REALLY careful .
• Never download cell phone applications from file
  sharing networks .
• NEVER install any UNEXPECTED application received
  by MMS message from ANY senders (including your
  friends!).
• Accustom yourself to disable bluetooth if you
  don't use it .

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CONCLUSION

• Virus can not install it cant run without
  users knowledge conscious acceptance.
• Virus can be avoided by taking precautions.

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THANK YOU
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