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If you are restoring an image from an acquisition or analyzing a pcap from mid-2021, replicating this exact environment is the only way to trigger the deep-seated, time-activated payloads that still lie dormant in archived malware samples.

Malware in mid-2021 used nanosecond timing. If a rdtsc instruction returned a time delta of less than 1000 cycles, the malware knew it was in a VM and would exit (Evasion). Naughty Sandbox -2021-05-31- -Naughty Sandbox-