27-04-2011, 10:35 AM
MOBILE PHONE VIRUS.ppt (Size: 1.26 MB / Downloads: 192)
INTRODUCTION
• Phone
– Make calls
– Send texts
– 21st century phone
– More functionality
– More private data
– More internet access
• Grater efficiency
Efficiency of phone
• Gets into the host’s phone via internet or from other phones
• Copies itself inside the phone
• Attaches itself to the files and programs
• Executes itself with out owner’s knowledge
• Needs user authentication
• Current actions
– Make calls to pay per minute numbers
– Accessing and modifying the data
– Prevent phone from booting
– Unwanted booting
– Drains phone’s battery
• Futuristic actions
– Location tracking
– Call tracking
– Leaking sensitive information
Spread Vector
• Web download
• Bluetooth
• MMS
• Memory card
• Computer
• First verified mobile virus
• Developed in 2004 by a group named 29A
• Proof concept of mobile virus
CARIBE
• Functionality
– Platform : symbian 60
– Spread vector : bluetooth
– Tries to send itself to all bluetooth enabled devices
– Installs itself as a.SIS filename
– CARIBE is displayed on infected phone’s display, on rebooting
– Continue bluetooth scanning drains phone’s battery
– Does not spread if the user does not accept the file-transfer
– No real harms
• Current state is harmless
COMMWARRIOR
• Origin : RUSSIA
• Got world wide attention on 2005
• Spread vector : MMS and bluetooth
• Platform : symbian 60 Smartphone
• Sends infected files to phone’s contact
• Fastest spread virus
• Detected by F-Secure Mobile Anti-Virus
SKULLS
• Platform : symbian OS
• Appears as a program to offer new wallpapers and icons
• Replaces all phone icons with images of a skull
• Renders all phone applications
• Infected phone can only make calls
Motives to create virus
• Curiosity
• Challenge
• Gain wider attention
• New antivirus companies
Install antivirus
• A computer program
Conclusion
• We should not accept files from unknown people without confirmation.
• We should not download suspicious files from internet.
• Installing antivirus programs makes good sense, especially if we want to keep our smart phones healthy.
• We simply need to be worried about the viruses that might make our mobile phone sick.