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I wasn't sure about it either. There's security researchers out there who might genuinely want to get a virus to run in a VM.
But yeah, the
cmalw-lib-2.0gives it away...Yeah, nobody uses
cmalw-lib-2.0Its deprecated, now we use
hack-lib-client-1.17systemd-malwaredand its front-endmalctlare how the cool kids are doing it.Not too long ago, when Fracturiser was a concern on Minecraft, and I read up on it, I got a chuckle when I read that stage 2 was a systemd service, and therefore couldn't have run on my machine even if it had gotten that far (of course, I still checked for signs of infection)