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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Yang Luo <hsluoyc@gmail.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Making Qemu/KVM more undetectable to malwares
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 10:22:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56D6B0CA.4080703@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFc5gye36ADsM4H7y=7OTT__8qQ4H4DeWhCxRHkRpAuV57Y0og@mail.gmail.com>



On 02/03/2016 04:07, Yang Luo wrote:
> And how about this idea. I found out that lots of malware will detect
> the presence of hypervisors and refuse to refuse to execute their real
> code in a VM. The malwares do this to prevent security engineers from
> analyzing their code under a VM. Lots of detection methods have been
> proposed for many years. But hypervisors seem to not care about this issue.
> 
> So what do you think about making Qemu/KVM more undetectable to
> malwares? Is this idea viable?

KVM already allows you to disable CPUID leaves specific to hypervisors.
 As you said, other detection methods for hypervisors exist, and patches
are welcome to thwart them. :)

However, while it is definitely a nice project and we would appreciate
it, it doesn't sound like the kind of research that you would publish in
academic venues.

Paolo

      reply	other threads:[~2016-03-02  9:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-02  3:07 [Qemu-devel] Making Qemu/KVM more undetectable to malwares Yang Luo
2016-03-02  9:22 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]

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