Defeating VMProtect’s Latest Tricks

A colleague of mine recently came across a SystemBC sample that is protected with VMProtect 3.6 or higher. VMProtect is a commercial packer that comes with advanced anti-debugging and VM detection capabilities. It also employs code virtualization – a technique where normal machine code is translated into a proprietary bytecode language that is interpreted at runtime – which makes it very hard to determine the exact logic implemented by the code. ScyllaHide, our anti-anti-debug tool of choice, was not …

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