Remember: Every lock has a key. The question is not if it can be broken, but how much time you are willing to spend in the debugger.
He had to go deeper. He modified his external driver to scramble the debug registers after the VMProtect check occurred but before the code he needed to analyze ran. It was a race condition. He was racing against the protection's self-integrity checks. vmprotect reverse engineering
: VMProtect includes "packer" features that detect if it is being run inside a debugger (like x64dbg) or a virtual machine (like VMware), often causing the program to crash or behave differently to thwart analysis. The Reverse Engineering Workflow Lifting/Extraction Remember: Every lock has a key