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Old 01-14-2021, 01:41
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Goodmorning,
In these days of covid-19 pandemic, more and more high schools, universities, entities and companies are using enforced assessing methods to be able to continue their testing activities on students/employees so that examinations can be taken online while on-site activities are still forbidden.

I've been asked from a friend of mine if I know some methods of spoofing the solution his University uses for secure assessment of examinations, so that he can read some of the answers I will be suggesting him via some other software on the pc (VNC, other means...still not investigated).

I know this is mean, but for some personal private reasons I can't explain here, it is the only way he can take the examination(this is last one and all other have been succesful without lying).

I am not an expert with Questionmark Secure Browser but having been able to play with it for 5 minutes, I saw that it is drawing itself on the entire screen. Windows key is not working, CTR+ALT+CANC is working but opening the task manager results in nothing since the windows opens but is kept on the background by the browser.

Is there someone that tried to play with this software and maybe managed to study how it behaves and how to be able to open some other software without it noticing or trying to be always on top of everything?

Thankyou

EDIT1: It is even detecting VMWare and refusing to run...

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Old 01-14-2021, 16:40
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What's wrong with the "classic" approach, which has been working for more than 100 years?
  1. Identify the topics you don't know good enough yet.
  2. Write them on a small piece of paper you assume your teacher won't notice when sitting behind his desk.
  3. After writing everything down thoroughly and in detail you notice you don't need the cheat sheet any more.
Even if 3. doesn't happen for some reason: The teacher's desk is very far away during COVID-19.
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Old 01-14-2021, 17:32
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Or use a second Laptop / Phone / Tablet...
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Old 01-14-2021, 18:15
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Or use a second Laptop / Phone / Tablet...
With constant camera/mirophone surveillance? The teacher might ask him to pause the test and rotate the camera to show the environment.
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Old 01-14-2021, 18:42
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With constant camera/mirophone surveillance? The teacher might ask him to pause the test and rotate the camera to show the environment.
You are right, didn't think about that. But if you show him solutions with some software on the pc you also need to have a hotkey or something to hide it in these cases.
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Old 01-18-2021, 16:37
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You could try and work out how it is identifying if it is running under vmware with a debugger/other analysis tools.

Also it is likely that it is just using common published techniques to identify that it is running in a VM, eg looking at the network adapter vendor etc...

Here is an example article that shows two ways to identify the process is running under a VM using the CPUID instruction, and then a solution so the example code no longer succeeds:

https://rayanfam.com/topics/defeating-malware-anti-vm-techniques-cpuid-based-instructions/
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