This repo is the codebase for my proposed talk on Implemting a self replicating virus. Motivation behind this project is to understand how self replication works using python and to see what are the possible impacts that can come out of it.
According to wikipedia
A computer virus is a type of computer program that, when executed, replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting its own code.
What we are doing here is basically marking our script into a header section, nested within which is a payload section as described below.
This header marks the start and end of our entire replication logic.
PLEASE DO NOT TRY THIS AT YOUR HOME...........DIRECTORY
This section contains a malicious code responsible for causing some disruption. For educational purposes the repo contains only a print stetement, but in theory you can try to attempt various activities including but not limited to.
- Causing a fork bomb(though remember that a single instance of a fork bomb is enough to bring donw a system, but given the nature of this code, it will cause a massive threaded fork bomb {don't even know if that is a thing :p })
- Causing a disk exhaustion by writing enormous amount of data to a file.
- Add the machine in a botnet.
1. Iterate over the lines of the current file.
2. Store all the lines between the `BEGIN HEADER` & `END HEADER` sections.
3. Iterate over all python files(recursively) in the given directory.
4. If the file contains the replication code do nothing
5. Else add the replication code to the file.
- Obfuscate the code.