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.

The infamous TrickBot trojan has started to check the screen resolutions of victims to detect whether the malware is running in a virtual machine.

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New types of malware that can detect when installed on a virtual machine are going into hibernation, making them hard to track down.

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