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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

Hardening Cuckoo Sandbox against VM detection


In recent cases, some malware are checking the environment when being executed. These malware will not run in virtualization products, such as VirtualBox, VMware, KVM. Alberto Ortega wrote of an interesting way of hardening Cuckoo Sandbox against malware that can detect the presence of virtualizations.

As written in labs.alienvault.com, we will use Pafish (Paranoid Fish) to detect if our virtualization environment is able to evade those anti-debuggers/sandboxes/VMs. Pafish is a tool that can run an anti-debugger/VM/sandbox when executed. These technique are often used by malware to avoid analyses. You can download Pafish at https://github.com/a0rtega/pafish.git. For your VM, run the following command lines to install Pafish:

$ sudo mkdir pafish
$ sudo git clone https://github.com/a0rtega/pafish.git pafish/

One of the core elements of Cuckoo Sandbox is CuckooMon, which provides Cuckoo Sandbox with the ability to intercept the execution flow of...