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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

Exporting data report analysis from Cuckoo to another format


We may see some type of report that Cuckoo generated. Basically, there are seven reporting modules available to users and all of them depend on user preferences. If you want a report that will work as a cross-platform software with another malware analyzer, you might want to use the MAEC platform. If you want to use a report that may be used in another software that is using JSON as input format, you might want to use the JSON platform. Options are there for you to choose depending upon your needs. But, occasionally, people might want to use another format too.

So, is it possible to make another report format rather than the regular one Cuckoo supplied? Well, actually it's possible. We all know that Cuckoo is an open source software that uses Python programming language. The codes are available and it's editable. So, in this section, we will modify the report.html module to create a new report file format. It will make a report...