anti-analysis/anti-vm/vm-detection
rule:
meta:
name: reference anti-VM strings targeting VMWare
namespace: anti-analysis/anti-vm/vm-detection
authors:
- michael.hunhoff@mandiant.com
- "@johnk3r"
scopes:
static: file
dynamic: file
att&ck:
- Defense Evasion::Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion::System Checks [T1497.001]
mbc:
- Anti-Behavioral Analysis::Virtual Machine Detection [B0009]
references:
- https://github.com/LordNoteworthy/al-khaser/blob/master/al-khaser/AntiVM/VMWare.cpp
examples:
- al-khaser_x86.exe_
- b83480162ede09d4aa6d4850f9faa0a4c3834152752fd04cfdb22d647aa1f825:0x17D80
features:
- or:
- string: /VMWare/i
- string: /VMTools/i
- string: /SOFTWARE\\VMware, Inc\.\\VMware Tools/i
- string: /vmnet\.sys/i
- string: /vmmouse\.sys/i
- string: /vmusb\.sys/i
- string: /vm3dmp\.sys/i
- string: /vmci\.sys/i
- string: /vmhgfs\.sys/i
- string: /vmmemctl\.sys/i
- string: /vmx86\.sys/i
- string: /vmrawdsk\.sys/i
- string: /vmusbmouse\.sys/i
- string: /vmkdb\.sys/i
- string: /vmnetuserif\.sys/i
- string: /vmnetadapter\.sys/i
- string: /\\\\.\\HGFS/i
- string: /\\\\.\\vmci/i
- string: /vmtoolsd\.exe/i
- string: /vmwaretray\.exe/i
- string: /vmwareuser\.exe/i
- string: /VGAuthService\.exe/i
- string: /vmacthlp\.exe/i
- string: /vmci/i
description: VMWare VMCI Bus Driver
- string: /vmhgfs/i
description: VMWare Host Guest Control Redirector
- string: /vmmouse/i
- string: /vmmemctl/i
description: VMWare Guest Memory Controller Driver
- string: /vmusb/i
- string: /vmusbmouse/i
- string: /vmx_svga/i
- string: /vmxnet/i
- string: /vmx86/i
- string: /VMwareVMware/i
- string: /vmGuestLib\.dll/i
- string: /vmGuestLib\.dll/i
- string: /Applications\\VMwareHostOpen\.exe/i
- string: /vm3dgl\.dll/i
- string: /vmdum\.dll/i
- string: /vm3dver\.dll/i
- string: /vmtray\.dll/i
- string: /VMToolsHook\.dll/i
- string: /vmmousever\.dll/i
- string: /VmGuestLibJava\.dll/i
- string: /vmscsi\.sys/i
last edited: 2023-11-24 10:34:28