Netskope Threat Labs

FILE-IDENTIFY Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) file magic detected

IPS-CFWIPS-SWG

1 SID: 170000

Detects network traffic carrying the VMware virtual disk (VMDK) signature. Virtual disk transfers can copy entire machine contents, so identification supports data loss prevention and ransomware response policies.

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