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Cuckoo Malware Analysis

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Cuckoo Malware Analysis

Overview of this book

Cuckoo Sandbox is a leading open source automated malware analysis system. This means that you can throw any suspicious file at it and, in a matter of seconds, Cuckoo will provide you with some detailed results outlining what said file did when executed inside an isolated environment. Cuckoo Malware Analysis is a hands-on guide that will provide you with everything you need to know to use Cuckoo Sandbox with added tools like Volatility, Yara, Cuckooforcanari, Cuckoomx, Radare, and Bokken, which will help you to learn malware analysis in an easier and more efficient way. Cuckoo Malware Analysis will cover basic theories in sandboxing, automating malware analysis, and how to prepare a safe environment lab for malware analysis. You will get acquainted with Cuckoo Sandbox architecture and learn how to install Cuckoo Sandbox, troubleshoot the problems after installation, submit malware samples, and also analyze PDF files, URLs, and binary files. This book also covers memory forensics – using the memory dump feature, additional memory forensics using Volatility, viewing result analyses using the Cuckoo analysis package, and analyzing APT attacks using Cuckoo Sandbox, Volatility, and Yara. Finally, you will also learn how to screen Cuckoo Sandbox against VM detection and how to automate the scanning of e-mail attachments with Cuckoo.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Cuckoo Malware Analysis
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Submitting a malware PDF document – aleppo_plan_cercs.pdf


In this section, we'll deal with PDF documents that contain malware samples and prepare to submit those. Please make sure you have installed a PDF reader application in your VM environment (I recommend you use Adobe Acrobat Reader). Internet connection in your VM environment is also needed to make sure that the malware analysis can run smoothly in your VM environment.

We will now submit a PDF file as a malware document. Let us see the steps involved:

  1. Open a new Terminal tab (Shift + Ctrl + T) and type in the following command line:

    $ python uti
    ls/submit.py --platform windows --package pdf shares/aleppo_plan_cercs.pdf
    
  2. After that, press Tab when the typing reaches aleppo (document real name contains Arabic characters, and unfortunately, Cuckoo Sandbox seems to not support Arabic characters so we need to rename it to aleppo_plan_crecs.pdf). In this case the document is located inside the shares folder. We have to change it based on where...