What is VM detection?

Dilshan Keragala writes in his excellent 2016 SANS Paper on Detecting Malware and Sandbox Evasion Techniques that “The proposition of Malware Sandbox analysis techniques is an effective remedy to the challenge posed by malware attacks. The concept behind a malware Sandbox analysis system is to capture the malicious program sample in a controlled testing environment […]

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Virtual Machines

VirtualBox emulates hard disks in one of three disk image formats: VDI: This format is the native file format for VirtualBox,  VirtualBox Disk Image VMDK: This open format is used by VMWare products such as VMWare Workstation and VMWare Player. It stores data in one or more files bearing “.vmdk” filename extensions. A single virtual […]

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