Goals
- This project is to get familiar with the types of behaviors that can be displayed by malware and with how to safely analyze these behaviors.
- Run malware through a secure environment to see what actions the malware will perform. In the real world, you would be looking at an unknown file to see what actions it takes.
- Get hands-on experience using a standard tool used in the industry called Cuckoo. For more details about Cuckoo, you can visit http://www.cuckoosandbox.org and read more about it.
- Learn what a safe environment to run malware looks like. In this case, you will have an outer VM where you will be doing all of your work, and an inner VM that will be used by Cuckoo to do the analysis. The outer VM is Ubuntu Linux, and the inner VM will be Windows XP.