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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

Memory forensic using Cuckoo Sandbox – using memory dump features


This section deals with memory forensic using Volatility. This chapter only introduces a little bit about the Volatility feature and its installation. Detailed explanation and exercises will be provided in the next chapter. This section will guide you on how to install Volatility and its basic usage.

Now we are ready to use more advanced Cuckoo features. It was Cuckoo's ability to take a memory dump of running processes in the Guest OS. First, we need to modify the configuration for Cuckoo so that the memory dump may be created before the machine shuts down:

  1. Edit the cuckoo.conf file that is in the conf/ directory and write down the configuration memory_dump = on.

  2. Edit the reporting.conf file in the same directory conf/ and activate metadata and maec11:

    [metadata]
    enabled = on
    
    [maec11]
    enabled = on
  3. Save it.

Please only enable them when you think you need further analysis to the memory that the malware used, because it will make...