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Mostly painless Cuckoo Sandbox install

How to Build a Cuckoo Sandbox Malware Analysis System

I had a heck of a time getting a Cuckoo sandbox running, and below I hope to help you get one up and running relatively quickly by detailing out the steps and gotchas I stumbled across along the way. I mention this in the references at the end of this gist, but what you see here is heavily influenced by this article from Nviso

Build your Linux Cuckoo VM

  1. Setup a Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit desktop VM (download here) in VMWare with the following properties:
  • 100GB hard drive
  • 2 procs
  • 8 gigs of RAM