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                                 DEF CON group 11396 @ Rome, Italy
                                
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by pietroborrello
This is the 14th meeting of the DEF CON group.
Date and location: May 28th from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Zoom (link to be posted in the Telegram group).
The schedule is:
---[ New Directions in Hypervisor Detection, by cristianrichie
Hardware-assisted virtualization is indispensable for dynamic malware analysis but, it introduces timing discrepancies with respect to bare-metal machines and malware writers can exploit those to perform hypervisor detection.
In this talk, we will see how despite sandboxes attempts to modify the values a malware can read from classical time sources, evasion is still possible. We will build two novel primitives taking advantage of recent microarchitectural research. The first involve the usage of a high-resolution covert time source to revisit well-known detection techniques. The second is a prime+probe attack on the last-level cache to detect virtual machine monitor pressure over cache memory caused by its execution from the hypervisor.
Slides link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gLDU2Ep3iRIfGJv_A2tz2KiCtpYIeyM7tQLdM4pZmO8/edit?usp=sharing