Z0mbie, often stylized as "Z0MBiE" is a prolific virus writer and creator of multiple mutation engines from Russia. Some of his works appeared in 29A magazine and he also published independently. He often gave his virses his own name (for example Zombie, Zombie-II, Zombie-4, etc.) in spite of many of them being very different, though they do often have unique alternative names. He appears to have been active between 1997 and 2005.
Personal
Very little information about Z0mbie's biography seems to remain (if it ever existed) and his website (still up) does not give any indictation of what got him into malware, computers, or anything else. No real interviews exist, though a satirical interview placing him in the Balkans rather than Russia and describing a ridiculous home situation exists. He did leave a large amount of viral, techincal, and even creative work.
Z0mbie was disdainful and pessimistic about the VX scene in Russia and apparently Russia in general, and seemed to have a more or less positive view of the west (as of early 2001). He saw viruses as an almost natural thing on the Internet and suspected antivirus people of being former virus writers themselves.
His work was mostly in Assembly, but he also made viruses in Pascal and Unix Shell Script.
Works
Viral
- Z0mbie
- Twinny
- Zofo
- Zmist
- Zperm
- Tiny
- Hooy
- Bistro
- Examplo
- 007JB
- Zhello
- TP-COM
- Pgpmorf
- Pascal Virus
- Eicar
Engines
Length Disassembler
- XDE
- ADE32
- LDE-32
Reversing
- MISTFALL
- MF2
Permutation
- RPM
- AZCME32c
Polymorphic
- KME-32
- EXPO
- PGPME-32
Additional Data Generation
- CODEGEN
- ETG
- PRCG
Other
- CODE MIXER
- DSCRIPT
- HOOKLIB
- SDE
Zines
- Total Zombification