so1icitx/vm-anti-detection

The project addresses a common but highly ephemeral problem in malware analysis: hypervisor detection. With only 17 stars and 1 fork after nearly 300 days, the project lacks any meaningful adoption or community momentum. The technical approach—likely consisting of registry modifications (removing 'VBOX' or 'VMWARE' strings) and driver renaming—is a standard 'cat-and-mouse' technique that is well-documented in the cybersecurity community. It competes with much more established and comprehensive tools like 'pafish' (Paranoid Fish) and 'VBoxHardenedLoader'. In this niche, defensibility is non-existent because detection signatures evolve rapidly; a tool that isn't updated weekly (velocity is 0.0/hr) becomes obsolete almost immediately as new detection techniques (e.g., timing attacks, I/O port checks) are implemented by malware authors. Frontier labs have zero interest in this space, as it is a specialized utility for security researchers and threat actors rather than a scalable AI or platform play. Displacement horizon is short because the scripts are easily broken by hypervisor updates or Windows OS changes.