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From: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
To: Anton Belousov <blsv.anton@gmail.com>
Cc: <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>,
	"Andrew Cooper" <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>, Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>,
	Ian Jackson <iwj@xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: [XEN PATCH 0/1] Add support for SMBIOS tables 7,8,9,26,27,28.
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 18:30:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YaUOUmwGdmk5lc2d@Air-de-Roger> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1638190663.git.blsv.anton@gmail.com>

On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 12:59:28PM +0000, Anton Belousov wrote:
> This update is done to improve virtual machine stealth from malware. There are AntiVM techniques that use WMI-queries to detect presence of this SMBIOS tables. Example: "https://github.com/LordNoteworthy/al-khaser/blob/master/al-khaser/AntiVM/Generic.cpp"

Aren't there many other hints at whether an OS is running inside of a
VM? I could imagine for example the ACPI tables, the list or models of
exposed devices, or the cpuid data?

Thanks, Roger.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-11-29 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-29 12:59 [XEN PATCH 0/1] Add support for SMBIOS tables 7,8,9,26,27,28 Anton Belousov
2021-11-29 12:59 ` [XEN PATCH 1/1] Add suport for SMBIOS tables 7,8,9,26,27,28 to improve virtual machine stealth from malware Anton Belousov
2021-11-29 17:27   ` Roger Pau Monné
2021-12-02 13:45   ` Jan Beulich
2021-11-29 17:30 ` Roger Pau Monné [this message]

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