Hyper-V Virtual Machine Hardening

This article shows how a virtual machin(VM) can be modified to evade detection from malware. This process is also called VM hardening. In dynamic malware analysis, researchers use virtual machine to execute malware in a safe and isolated environment in order to monitor and investigate its behavior. This is why malware author started to use Anit-VM techniques to detect if their programs are running inside a virtual environment and subsequently evade the analysis process.