Breaking the Shield: Unpacking a VMProtected Windows Kernel Driver

Original text by eversinc33

The article explains a practical workflow for unpacking a Windows kernel driver protected with VMProtect and preparing it for reverse engineering. The author analyzes an anti-cheat driver (KSophon_x64.sys) protected by VMProtect v2–3 and demonstrates how to bypass its protection mechanisms to restore a usable binary for analysis. The main challenge comes…

https://core-jmp.org/2026/03/breaking-the-shield-unpacking-a-vmprotected-windows-kernel-driver/