Manipulating QEMU Hardwares with Bootkit (opens in new tab)

Boot a fresh QEMU instance and run dmidecode -t 1 inside it: System Information Manufacturer: QEMU Product Name: Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) Version: pc-q35-8.2 Serial Number: Not Specified UUID: ... Family: Not Specified That output is not just cosmetic. Every piece of software that has a reason to know whether it is running inside a virtual machine reads exactly this table — EDRs, anti-cheat engines, sandbox detectors, hypervisor fingerprinting routines. The string "QEMU" in the Manufact...