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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

Summary


In this chapter, you have learned how to submit malware samples to Cuckoo Sandbox. This chapter also described multiple examples of the submission of malicious files that consist of MS Office documents, PDF files, binary files, and malicious URLs. In addition, this chapter also describes how to use Volatility as a memory forensic tool as part of additional tools in Cuckoo Sandbox. With volatility, you can analyze RAM dumps from 32-bit and 64-bit Windows, Linux, Mac OS, and Android systems. You just need to set up the profile before performing a memory forensic using Volatility. For example, if you want to perform memory forensics using Volatility for Windows XP, you need to change the Volatility profile using the Windows XP profile.

In the next chapter, we will explain in detail about the usage of Volatility and some examples of cases that will sharpen your knowledge about Volatilty as a memory forensic tool.