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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
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
So I suppose that it depends on the malware. Some malware doesn't want to take the chance of being reverse engineered, so when it's aware that it is in a virtual machine, it might shut down. pafish has functionality for working out whether-or-not it is running in a VMware instance.
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