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I made my VM think it has a CPU fan
...so the malware would finally shut up and run
At the time of writing, the only available resource I found on how to set custom SMBIOS data in Xen is this almost 10 years old mcnewton’s post. Note that the content is same as the output of dmidecode -t27 -u above, but with additional 00 byte at the end, because the SMBIOS specification requires it. If you’re wondering why I didn’t use* in the wmic command, it’s because the Win32_Fan class has*many* properties, and I wanted to keep the output short and sweet.
Or read this on Hacker News
