Siamexe

Silvio
Type	File virus
Creator	PienSteVo
Date Discovered	25-MAY-2005
Place of Origin	France
Source Language	Assembly
Platform	Linux
File Type(s)	ELF
Infection Length	bytes

Siamexe, also known as Ovets, is a Linux virus by PienSteVo. It was published in issue 7 of 29A magazine. PienSteVo credits Benny's Winux as an inspiration for the virus. It is also very similar to his Balrog virus, which appeared in the same issue and some antivirus programs consider it a variant of Balrog. When executed, it looks for files in the current directory and checks to see if they are clean, infectable ELF files. If it finds a suitible file, it prepends itself to the beginning of the file.

Sources

PienSteVo. 29A Magazine, Issue 7, Siamexe. 2005

SecurityLab, Virus.Linux.Balrog.a. 18-APR-2005