• At least 5 GB of RAM

• VT-X extensions strongly recommended

• Install git, vagrant and packer using your distribution’s packaging tool (packer is sometimes called packer-io)

• pip install malboxes:

  sudo pip3 install git+https://github.com/GoSecure/malboxes.git#egg=malboxes

This creates your base box that is imported in Vagrant. Afterwards you can re-use the same box several times per sample analysis.

Run:

You can also list all supported templates with:

This will build a Vagrant box ready for malware investigation you can now include it in a Vagrantfile afterwards.

For example:

The configuration section contains further information about what can be configured with malboxes.

This will create a Vagrantfile prepared to use for malware analysis. Move it into a directory of your choice and issue:

By default the local directory will be shared in the VM on the Desktop. This can be changed by commenting the relevant part of the Vagrantfile.

For example:

Malboxes uses virtualbox as a back-end by default but since version 0.3.0 support for ESXi / vSphere has been added. Notes about the steps required for ESXi / vSphere support are available. Since everyone’s setup is a little bit different do not hesitate to open an issue if you encounter a problem or improve our documentation via a pull request.

We are exploring with the concept of profiles which are stored separately than the configuration and can be used to create files, alter the registry or install additional packages. See profile-example.js for an example configuration. This new capacity is experimental and subject to change as we experiment with it.

Introduction video

• Introductory blog post: http://gosecure.net/2017/02/16/introducing-malboxes-a-tool-to-build-malware-analysis-virtual-machines/

malboxes was presented at NorthSec 2016 in a talk titled Applying DevOps Principles for Better Malware Analysis given by Olivier Bilodeau and Hugo Genesse

• Slides (HTML, best)

• Slides (PDF, degraded)

• Video