Hikaru.exe

Madoka.exe
The Hikaru.exe program icon.
About This Screamer
Maker	Qiwen Lin
Type	Application
Release date	September 4th, 2001

hikaru.exe, alse known as the Sadako virus in Japan, was a Taiwanese screamer program. It is a variant of the Win32/FlaGhost malware. The original author is Qiwen Lin (林 啟文) and it was written in the Hot Soup Processor programming language.

If the user runs it, it doesn't seem to do anything. However, it silently becomes present in the operating computer's memory. and triggers a payload at random times, which shows a full-screen picture of Teke Teke, similar but not the same as McDonalds.exe, with a scream sound effect. It quickly spread over the Internet in Japan in the early 2000s. However, it didn't become as popular as its cousin. Some have complained that even when resetting the computer. However, the application will later continue its usual behavior.

The most recent version of this virus is "0.4" from November 6th, 2001

Trivia

• Just like Madoka.exe, According to the decompiled source code, holding down F10 when double clicking the original EXE will cause the malware to decompile itself and unpack all the assets and codes. However, this behavior is tested not working on a WinXP virtual machine.

Gallery

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  The Application's icon (0.4)

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  Censored screamer image.

Links

NOTE: The following download link contains a screamer application that may harm your computer!

• ftp.vector.co.jp/21/70/1811/hikaru04.zip
• Permalink: web.archive.org/web/20240227033035/ftp.vector.co.jp/21/70/1811/hikaru04.zip
• Author's homepage: web.archive.org/web/20040806024306/geocities.co.jp:80/SiliconValley-Oakland/8358/mysoft/mysoft.html
• Preview: youtube.com/watch?v=L4jOfslX6uA
• Japanese writeup and unofficial SWF version: web.archive.org/web/20041030075942/http://fukushima.cool.ne.jp/aok2/documentary/hikaru.html

See also

• Happy Days.exe
• Madoka.exe
• McDonalds.exe

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