Cuckoo Sandbox Installation (Part 1 of 4)

This is the first of four parts series on the "Installation of Cuckoo Sandbox." Part 1 will focus on preparing the Host Operating System. 

Video Instructions
Cuckoo Sandbox Installation Part 1

Background
In order to successfully install Cuckoo Sandbox you must setup the required environment. The required software is Linux, Python, and a virtualization platform (i.e Virtualbox or VMware Player).

Steps

All  commands are Italicize. To install the software open a terminal and copy & paste the commands. During the installation of the various software you will be prompted with the options of "Yes/No" type "Yes or Y" to all prompts. 

1. Linux

• Install Linux as your main operating system. This can be any distribution of Linux. (My choice was  Ubuntu 16.04).
• Run the update command to update your Linux distribution. 
• sudo apt-get update

2. Python libraries [1]

•   Install the dependencies 
•  sudo apt-get install python python-pip python-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev 

• Install libxml2-dev and libxslt-dev 
• sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt-dev

•  Install the requirements from the requirements text file using PyPI 
• Download Cuckoo Sandbox and extract it.  
• Command to extract the .tar.gz file: tar -xvzf 
• Example: tar -xvzf FileName.tar.gz
• Navigate to the cuckoo folder:
• cd /home/YourUserName/Downloads/cuckoo
• sudo -H pip install -r requirements.txt 
• sudo -H pip install --upgrade pip

 3. Virtualization Software

• Install VMware player
• Download VMWare Workstation Player for Linux
• Navigate to 
• cd/ home/YourUserName/Downloads

• sudo chmod u+x VMWare-Player-12.5.1-4542065.x86_64.bundle
• sudo ./VMWare-Player-12.5.1-4542065.x86_64.bundle

4. Create a user for cuckoo

• sudo adduser cuckoo

References:
1. Cuckoo Sandbox Documentation


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