Cuckoo Sandbox Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to Cuckoo Sandbox for Linux and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is VirusTotal. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try VirusTotal or Firejail. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Cuckoo Sandbox and 12 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Cuckoo Sandbox are Bubblewrap, Malice, FAME Automates Malware Evaluation and mbox.

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  1. VirusTotal icon
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    VirusTotal inspects files, domains, IPs, and URLs with over 70 antivirus scanners, sharing results with the community to raise global IT security. The service also supports various submission methods including web interface, API, and extensions, free for non-commercial end-users.

    51 VirusTotal alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  2. Firejail icon
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    Firejail is a SUID security sandbox program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf.

    21 Firejail alternatives

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    • Linux
     
  3. Qu1cksc0pe icon
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    All-in-One malware analysis tool for analyze many file types, from Windows binaries to E-Mail files.

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    • Linux
    • Python
     
  4. Bubblewrap icon
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    Unprivileged sandboxing tool.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. Malice icon
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    Malice's mission is to be a free open source version of VirusTotal that anyone can use at any scale from an independent researcher to a fortune 500 company.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  6. mbox icon
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    Mbox is a lightweight sandboxing mechanism that any user can use without special privileges in commodity operating systems.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. PyREbox icon
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    Cisco Talos's PyREbox is a python QEMU-based sandbox environment designed to aid in reverse engineering. It can be used for security researchers to aid them in malware analysis, or for general developers with debugging their applications.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
    • QEMU
     
  8. runc icon
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    CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9. Lenspect icon
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    A lightweight security threat scanner intended to make malware detection more accessible and efficient.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  10. "Tree-shaped" sandbox: multi-layer nesting and branching, like a “tree” composed of multiple sub-containers. A sandbox is composed of multiple layered sub-containers. With this design, “untrusted” procs and “semi-trusted” procs run in different layers of a sandbox;...

    16 Tree Sandbox alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. A malware-analysis tool that identify the exact position and details of malicious content in binary files using external Anti-Virus scanners. Supports all AV scanners.

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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