Faking a Virtual Machine
One of the more popular trends in the recent years is the move of malicious code analysts towards virtual machines to test and reverse-engineer malicious code. And surprisingly the virus/worm writers have been adding mechanisms to their code to detect such environments.
I came across this particular piece of software called Themida which does exactly that. Lenny Zeltser from SANS reports about this on SANS. Whats interesting is that this kind of detection is now part of commercial packers around the world.
The question I have is this, how long will it take for someone to come up with a VMWare/Virtual Machine simulator/faker which I can run on my perfect non-virtual desktop/laptop/server and make malwares believe its running inside a Virtual machine ?
If that can kill even a small percent of fresh 0-day worms/viruses, it would be worth the effort. Wouldn't it ?
I came across this particular piece of software called Themida which does exactly that. Lenny Zeltser from SANS reports about this on SANS. Whats interesting is that this kind of detection is now part of commercial packers around the world.
The question I have is this, how long will it take for someone to come up with a VMWare/Virtual Machine simulator/faker which I can run on my perfect non-virtual desktop/laptop/server and make malwares believe its running inside a Virtual machine ?
If that can kill even a small percent of fresh 0-day worms/viruses, it would be worth the effort. Wouldn't it ?
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