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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

Creating a built-in report in HTML format


Basically, Cuckoo will make an HTML report by using the template that you may have found in Cuckoo's subdirectory data/html. The main HTML template file is report.html with the addition of a few other HTML and CSS files, as shown in the following screenshot:

If you find some malware and analyze it as explained earlier in Chapter 2, Using Cuckoo Sandbox to Analyze a Sample Malware, you already know that the result will occur like the following screenshot:

There are a few tabs available in the HTML reports. They are Info, File, Signatures, Screenshots, Static, Dropped, Network, and Behavior. The information included in each tab is generated based on the malware, what happens when analyzing the malware, and so on. Not all of the sections need to be generated by Cuckoo. Things that didn't occur or failed to be generated may not be available in Cuckoo Sandbox HTML Report.

Cuckoo Sandbox HTML Reports

Info

This tab shows the category of the analyzed malware...