ESET researchers describe thes structure of the virtual machine used in samples of Wslink and suggest an approach to see through its obfuscation techniques.

EVM is a virtual machine or computation engine used to execute smart contracts. It is used by most blockchain networks, including Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, Avalanche and many others.

Basically, the Dalvik virtual machine performs transformation of the application’s Dalvik bytecode into native instructions, so there would be platform-specific Dalvik virtual machines for each ...

This didn't stop bytecode virtual machines from being at the core of SmallTalk, a prominent object-oriented language. Even Forth uses a virtual-machine architecture.