Tag: virtualization

This article presents the structure of the Independent Guest Virtual Machine (IGVM) file format, a binary file designed to define and securely launch the initial state of a virtual machine. It bundles all necessary components such as the BIOS/OVMF, kernel, and initial ramdisk, into a single file. We'll focus on a concrete example to understand the main structure of the file format.

A step by step approach to reverse engineer Hyper-V and have a low level insight into Virtual Trust Levels.

Cappsule was released a few weeks ago and we're happy of the positive attention received. However, relying on a custom hypervisor make its usage quite difficult across various distros. This blogpost explains how the same goals can be achieved on Linux with usual software. Impatient readers can directly checkout NoFear's GitHub.

At Quarkslab, we don't only break software and exploit vulnerabilities, we also try to create innovative and efficient solutions to counter them. Cappsule is one of those solutions.