Hi,

Just came upon your Painless cuckoo install article and am super pumped to give it a try.

I'm building out a Win VM and trying my best to keep it as weak as possible using this snippet as guidance:

You will need to step out of your role as a blue team member to prepare this VM: this VM has to be as vulnerable as possible! To increase the chances of malware executing inside the VM, you will have to disable most of the protections and hardening you would implement on machines in your corporate network. For example, you will not install an anti-virus in this VM, disable UAC, don’t install patches,…

You also mention some recommendations about Office:

To properly analyze malicious Office documents, you will use an older, unpatched version of Microsoft Office and you will disable macro security: you want the macros to run as soon as the document is opened, without user interaction.

Any recommendations on doing that? I only see sites like this one that let you submit an old Office key (which I don't have) to download an old Office version.

Thanks,
Brian

Hi,

I created a weak Windows VM, exported OVA over to Cuckoo box, tweaked the script to point to all the right paths (as far as I could tell) and here's the result:

Looking at your blog entry it seems like the text I'd want to see next is Downloading Community Rules. Based on this image I can't really tell if the snapshot crapped out or if the problem was with downloading community rules. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Brian

With reference to: https://www.virtualbox.org/pipermail/vbox-dev/2016-April/013815.html

the currently pulled down virtualbox GPG key still seems to generate a validation error. The 2016 key should work and seems to not break for Ubuntu 16.04.

sudo su -c 'wget -q -O- http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox_2016.asc | apt-key add -'