SMSW

Created the Monday 11 March 2019. Updated 1 year, 1 month ago.

Stores the machine status word into the destination operand.

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Code Snippets

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

void smsw()
{
	unsigned int reax = 0;

	__asm
	{
		mov eax, 0xCCCCCCCC
		smsw eax
		mov DWORD PTR[reax], eax
	}

	if ((((reax >> 24) & 0xFF) == 0xcc) && (((reax >> 16) & 0xFF) == 0xcc))
	{
	    cout << "VM detected!" << endl;
	}
}

int main()
{
    smsw();
    cout << "Hello world!" << endl;
    return 0;
}

About Author Open Snippet

Author: Thomas Roccia (fr0gger) / Target Platform: Windows

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SMSW

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