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Web pages Detecting Virtualized Browsers and other tricks

Shows how a web page can tell whether the visiting browser runs in a VM, so malware can withhold payloads from analysis sandboxes. Non-standard screen dimensions read from JavaScript give windowed VMware away, and a Java applet reads MAC addresses whose first three octets identify VMware. Extends to detecting private browsing, NoScript and visited intranet hosts.

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Jeremiah Grossman
Published by
blog.jeremiahgrossman.com
Topic
Browser

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