This sent me down the rabbit hole on defeating this... I cannot stand this sort of authoritarian horsesh...

Defeating malware's VM detection is very interesting.

Links for others if they're interested:

https://github.com/a0rtega/pafish collects all the best-known detection methods into a test suite.

This issue is interesting/has links for sure: https://github.com/spender-sandbox/cuckoo-modified/issues/45...