Created by Check Point Research, the Malware Evasion Encyclopedia is broken into different categories of information that a malware will use to detect if it is running under a virtual machine.

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Most of these detection techniques depend upon detecting if the malware is running in a virtual machine.

It’s the way they work. Malware can walk the interrupt vector table or VM interface subroutines, find the VM hooks, and insert itself one call above or replace a sub-routine.

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Periodically, you should throw out the “just browsing” VM and bring over a clean instance, so that any undetected stealth malware is disposed of.

Symantec finds most malware doesn't quit if it runs on VM, which used to be a sign it was being analyzed.