full-disclosure - Determinig VMWare environment (was: Unpacking Sasser)

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From: trik-news at gmx.de (Spiro Trikaliotis)
Subject: Determinig VMWare environment (was: Unpacking Sasser)

Hello,

* On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 08:56:51AM +0100 Lee wrote:
 
> I am intrigued by your points of malware understanding the environment
> 
> > "VM environment can be sensed by the code being tested and choose to
> > act entirely differently from how it would otherwise."
> 
> I have never seen this before, have you any pointers for me?  I use
> ESX server alot and malware been able to detect my environment is
> something I havent seen before. Would kind of go against the very
> nature of ESX server, like said, very interested on this as it would
> help to safe guard our testing environments.

there should be some ways to accomplish that. The VMWare "backdoor" port
might be one (!) good starting point:

http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/backdoor.html#top

Best regards,
   Spiro.

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