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by no-dr-onboard 737 days ago
Fun concept, but this is security by obscurity. Other heuristics:

- providing fake manifests to hardware drivers commonly associated with virtual machines - active process inspector handles - presence of any software signed by hexrays (the ini file is usually enough)

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> Fun concept, but this is security by obscurity.

Malware uses signals to determine if they are running in a VM. If we can degrade those signals, they will have to play a cat and mouse game trying to avoid VMs.

The less clear it is if a process is running in a VM, the easier time security researchers will have testing exploits found in the wild.