Auto Installer Script for Cuckoo Sandbox: http://cuckoosandbox.org/
What is Cuckoo Sandbox?
In three words, Cuckoo Sandbox is a malware analysis system.
What does that mean? It simply means that you can throw any suspicious file at it and in a matter of seconds Cuckoo will provide you back some detailed results outlining what such file did when executed inside an isolated environment.
I created this script in Buguroo Offensive Security to avoid wasting my time installing Cuckoo Sandbox in Debian Stable.
- Execute the script: sh cuckooautoinstall.sh
- Add a password for the user 'cuckoo' created by the script. Use: passwd cuckoo command.
- Create the virtual machines http://docs.cuckoosandbox.org/en/latest/installation/guest/ or import virtual machines using VBoxManage import virtual_machine.ova
- Add to the virtual machines with HostOnly option using vboxnet0: vboxmanage modifyvm “virtual_machine" --hostonlyadapter1 vboxnet0 (use this command to list the VMs: VBoxManage list vms)
- Configure cuckoo: cuckoo/conf/cuckoo.conf, cuckoo/conf/auxiliary.conf & cuckoo/conf/virtualbox.conf
- Execute cuckoo (check the image output): cd cuckoo && python cuckoo.py
- Execute also webpy (default port 8080): cd cuckoo/utils && python web.py
- Execute also django using port 6969: cd cuckoo/web && python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:6969
It installs by default Cuckoo sandbox with the ALL optional stuff: yara, ssdeep, django ...
It installs the last versions of: ssdeep, yara, pydeep-master & jansson.
It tries to solve common problems during the installation: ldconfigs, autoreconfs...
It installs by default virtualbox and creates the hostonlyif.
It creates the iptables rules and the ip forward to enable internet in the cuckoo virtual machines:
sudo iptables -A FORWARD -o eth0 -i vboxnet0 -s 192.168.56.0/24 -m conntrack --ctstate NEW -j ACCEPT
sudo iptables -A FORWARD -m conntrack --ctstate ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
sudo iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -j MASQUERADE
sudo sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
It enables run tcpdump from nonroot user:
sudo apt-get -y install libcap2-bin
sudo setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin=eip /usr/sbin/tcpdump
It creates the 'cuckoo' user in the system and it is also added this user to vboxusers group.
It enables mongodb in conf/reporting.conf
It fix the "TEMPLATE_DIRS setting must be a tuple" error when running python manage.py from the DJANGO version >= 1.6. Replacing in web/web/settings.py:
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
"templates"
)
For:
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
("templates"),
)
- Download and install Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads :
Download the VirtualBox Extension Pack for your Distribution and for your Virtualbox version: vboxmanage --version. For example:
root@cuckoolab3:~# vboxmanage --version
4.1.18_Debianr78361
#(found this version in Extension Pack Link for All Platforms, in VirtualBox 4.1.18: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds_4_1)
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.1.18/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.1.18-78361.vbox-extpack
Install the Extension Pack with: VBoxManage extpack install. For example for my 4.1.18_Debianr78361:
sudo VBoxManage extpack install Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.1.18-78361.vbox-extpack
Create the file /etc/default/virtualbox and add the user. I am using the user 'cuckoo' created by the script, this user must be in vboxusers:
VBOXWEB_USER=cuckoo
- Download and install phpVirtualbox: An open source, AJAX implementation of the VirtualBox user interface written in PHP. As a modern web interface, it allows you to access and control remote VirtualBox instances. phpVirtualBox is designed to allow users to administer VirtualBox in a headless environment - mirroring the VirtualBox GUI through its web interface. http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpvirtualbox/
Install dependences:
sudo apt-get install nginx php5-common php5-mysql php5-fpm php-pear unzip
Start nginx:
sudo /etc/init.d/nginx start
Edit /etc/nginx/sites-available/default:
server {
listen 80; ## listen for ipv4; this line is default and implied
listen [::]:80 default ipv6only=on; ## listen for ipv6
root /usr/share/nginx/www;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
# Make site accessible from http://localhost/
server_name _;
location / {
# First attempt to serve request as file, then
# as directory, then fall back to index.html
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
# Uncomment to enable naxsi on this location
# include /etc/nginx/naxsi.rules
}
location /doc/ {
alias /usr/share/doc/;
autoindex on;
allow 127.0.0.1;
deny all;
}
# Only for nginx-naxsi : process denied requests
#location /RequestDenied {
# For example, return an error code
#return 418;
#}
#error_page 404 /404.html;
# redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
#
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root /usr/share/nginx/www;
}
# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
#
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
}
# deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
# concurs with nginx's one
#
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}
Reload nginx config:
sudo /etc/init.d/nginx reload
Install the last phpVirtualBox and extract it in the nginx web.
phpVirtualBox versioning is aligned with VirtualBox versioning in that the major and minor release numbers will maintain compatibility.
phpVirtualBox 4.0-x will always be compatible with VirtualBox 4.0.x. Regardless of what the latest x revision is. phpVirtualBox 4.2-x will always be compatible with VirtualBox 4.2.x, etc.. *)
for VirtualBox 4.3 - phpvirtualbox-4.3-x.zip *)
for VirtualBox 4.2 - phpvirtualbox-4.2-x.zip *)
for VirtualBox 4.1 - phpvirtualbox-4.1-x.zip *)
for VirtualBox 4.0 - phpvirtualbox-4.0-x.zip *)
...
I am using Virtualbox 4.1.18_Debianr78361 and I found a version for my version: phpvirtualbox-4.1-11.zip http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpvirtualbox/files/Older%20versions/
Download and extract the CORRECT phpvirtualbox version for your Virtualbox version in the nginx public web path:
cd /usr/share/nginx/www
sudo wget -L -c http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpvirtualbox/files/Older%20versions/phpvirtualbox-4.1-11.zip/download -O phpvirtualbox.zip
sudo unzip phpvirtualbox.zip
Copy the config sample like default config:
cd phpvirtualbox-4.1-11
sudo cp config.php-example config.php
Edit config.php and add the cuckoo user:
var $username = 'cuckoo';
var $password = '12345';
Start vboxweb service using the same user of the config.php of the phpVirtualbox. In my (old) Virtualbox version you can use this command:
su cuckoo
vboxwebsrv -H 127.0.0.1 --background
And for new versions:
sudo VBoxManage setproperty websrvauthlibrary default
sudo /etc/init.d/vboxweb-service restart
Access to the phpvirtualbox web, the default password and user for the web is admin.
For common issues and problems visit: http://sourceforge.net/p/phpvirtualbox/wiki/Common%20phpVirtualBox%20Errors%20and%20Issues/
- Install a RDP Client to access to virtual machines (you can use the Windows Remote Desktop client).
Install cuckoo as daemon:
-
sudo apt-get install supervisor
-
Edit /etc/supervisor/conf.d/cuckoo.conf example:
[program:cuckoo] command=python cuckoo.py directory=/home/cuckoo User=cuckoo [program:cuckoo-web] command=python web.py directory=/home/cuckoo/utils user=cuckoo�[program:cuckoo-api] command=python api.py directory=/home/cuckoo/utils user=cuckoo -
Reload supervisor: sudo supervisorctl reload
Read first: http://docs.cuckoosandbox.org/en/latest/installation/guest/
Normally I create the Virtual Machine from my Windows and after I export the virtual machine using the file menu in Virtual Box. I export the virtual machine using the OVF format (.OVA). Then I copy the virtual machine to my server using sftp.
You can use the VBoxManage import command to import a virtual machine. Use the user created for cuckoo. Here an example to import my Virtual Machine "windows_7.ova" created from VirtualBox in Windows:
su cuckoo
VBoxManage import windows_7.ova
If you are using phpVirtualbox with a old VirtualBox version and you are running the command /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxwebsrv -H 127.0.0.1 --background execute the command from the same user of the config.php of phpVirtualbox. Example:
su cuckoo
/usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxwebsrv -H 127.0.0.1 --background
Configure HostOnly adapter to the virtual machine, you can list your virtual machines with the VBoxManage list vms command. Use the user created for cuckoo. For my Windows_7 virtual machine:
su cuckoo
vboxmanage modifyvm "windows_7" --hostonlyadapter1 vboxnet0
Start the virtual machine with vboxmanage startvm command. Use the user created for cuckoo. Example:
su cuckoo
vboxmanage startvm "windows_7" --type headless
Check when the cuckoo's agent.py is running I use ping + telnet. For example my static IP of the virtual machine is 192.168.56.130 and I am using the default agent.py port:
cuckoo@:~/VMS$ cuckoo@cuckoolab3:~/VMS$ while ! ping -c 1 192.168.56.130; do echo -; done; echo Virtual Machine Online!
PING 192.168.56.130 (192.168.56.130) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.56.1 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
--- 192.168.56.130 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 0 received, +1 errors, 100% packet loss, time 0ms
...
-
PING 192.168.56.130 (192.168.56.130) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.56.130: icmp_req=1 ttl=128 time=999 ms
--- 192.168.56.130 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 999.965/999.965/999.965/0.000 ms
Virtual Machine Online!
cuckoo@:~/VMS$ telnet 192.168.56.130 8000
Trying 192.168.56.130...
Connected to 192.168.56.130.
Escape character is '^]'.
Now you can access to the virtual machine via RDP for example to minimize the agent.py script, check if the internet works etc...
Making the screenshot using the user created for cuckoo. For my windows_7 virtual machine I want create a snapshoot called cuckoosnap:
su cuckoo
VBoxManage snapshot "windows_7" take "cuckoosnap" --pause
VBoxManage controlvm "windows_7" poweroff
VBoxManage snapshot "windows_7" restorecurrent
Add the new virtual machine with the new snapshoot and with the static IP address to the conf/virtualbox.conf::
mode = headless
machines = cuckoo1
[cuckoo1]
label = windows_7
platform = Windows
ip = 192.168.56.130
snapshot = cuckoosnap
interface = vboxnet0
Restart cuckoo.
- Add vmcloak info to README: http://vmcloak.org/ Automated Virtual Machine Generation and Cloaking tailored for Cuckoo Sandbox.
- Add Pafish info to README: https://github.com/a0rtega/pafish The objective of this project is to collect usual tricks seen in malware samples. This allows us to study it, and test if our analysis environments are properly implemented.
- Add hardening cuckoo info to README.
- Add support for more Linux Distributions.
- Improve the script (sorry for my bad Bash skills).
- Add arguments to the script in order to enable and disable things like: do not install django, do not enable mongodb, install phpvirtualbox, select virtualbox, vmware or kvm installation, apply or do not apply a workarround patch (ex: django patch) etc.
- Test the script in more environments
- ...
##Pull requests are always welcome :D