pafish VS cuckoo-modified

Compare pafish vs cuckoo-modified and see what are their differences.

pafish

Pafish is a testing tool that uses different techniques to detect virtual machines and malware analysis environments in the same way that malware families do (by a0rtega)

cuckoo-modified

Modified edition of cuckoo (by spender-sandbox)
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pafish cuckoo-modified
17 1
2,996 386
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5.5 10.0
over 2 years ago over 6 years ago
C Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only -
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pafish

Posts with mentions or reviews of pafish. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-02.

cuckoo-modified

Posts with mentions or reviews of cuckoo-modified. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-09.
  • ProctorU Is Dystopian Spyware
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Nov 2021
    This sent me down the rabbit hole on defeating this... I cannot stand this sort of authoritarian horsesh...

    Defeating malware's VM detection is very interesting.

    Links for others if they're interested:

    https://github.com/a0rtega/pafish collects all the best-known detection methods into a test suite.

    This issue is interesting/has links for sure: https://github.com/spender-sandbox/cuckoo-modified/issues/45...

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pafish and cuckoo-modified you can also consider the following projects:

VmwareHardenedLoader - Vmware Hardened VM detection mitigation loader (anti anti-vm)

RDTSC-KVM-Handler - my patches for linux kernel to spoof rdtsc and make vm exit undetected

opencanary - Modular and decentralised honeypot

VMDE - Source from VMDE paper, adapted to 2015

Reverse-Engineering-Tutorial - A FREE comprehensive reverse engineering tutorial covering x86, x64, 32-bit ARM & 64-bit ARM architectures.

kiteshield - Packer/Protector for x86-64 ELF binaries on Linux

RATwurst - Windows-only Remote Access Tool (RAT) with anti-debugging and anti-sandbox checks. For educational purposes only.

qemu-git-patched-pkgbuild - qemu-git PKGBUILD from AUR patched for anti-vm detection

al-khaser - Public malware techniques used in the wild: Virtual Machine, Emulation, Debuggers, Sandbox detection.

VXUG-Papers - Research code & papers from members of vx-underground.

VBoxHardenedLoader - VirtualBox VM detection mitigation loader