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Cuckoo Sandbox

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Cuckoo Sandbox is a modular, automated malware analysis system. Running from command-line on a Linux or Mac host, it uses python and virtualization (VirtualBox, QEMU-KVM, etc) to create an isolated Windows guest environment to safely and automatically run and analyze files to...

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  • Free • Open Source

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  • Mac  Host Operating System = Mac OS X
  • Windows  Virtualized Guest OS' = Windows XP Service Pack 3, Vista, Win7
  • Linux  Recommended Host Operating System = GNU/Linux (Debian/Ubuntu preferred)
  • Online  [https://malwr.com/](https://malwr.com/)
  • Android
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This repository has been archived by the owner on Apr 27, 2021.

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  • Developed by

    Claudio “nex” Guarnieri

  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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  •  5,658 Stars
  •  1,707 Forks
  •  960 Open Issues
  •   Updated May 3, 2022 (Archived)
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Cuckoo Sandbox, and it has gotten 24 likes

Cuckoo Sandbox was added to AlternativeTo by aguy on Aug 20, 2013 and this page was last updated Mar 29, 2025. Cuckoo Sandbox is sometimes referred to as Cuckoo, CuckooSandbox.

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Guest
•Mar 29, 2025
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Official Website is a foreign Lottery site.

bawldiggle
•Apr 22, 2020
1

Windows 7 ( or any Win-edition) ?
At first I was very interested after the demise of (down but not out ... yet) . . . SandBoxie

Cuckoo SandBox was born in 2010 see Cuckoo History but still no documentation as promised for Installation instructions Win-7

If I understand the CS blurbs it can test new apps without actually installing those apps ? If so what a clever concept !

So far CS is LINUX and MAC focused but nothing for/about Windows ... even after 10 years have passed.

Cuckoo Sandbox could be very helpful for non-Windows users. There are 730+ issues listed on Github ... of which I would expect for a relativly new program ... but I am not prepared to trawl through 700+ issues to find Windows leads.

I cannot rate Cuckoo Sandbox without a Windows version to test.
22-Apr-2020

Jason Brown
•May 15, 2022

Just tried to install on Linux.

My copy of Linux Lite would not accept the listed terminal instructions without changing from python to python3.

Went through all that, only for cuckoo to inform me that it only works on python2. The Github page for this software has been "archived" suggesting that it is no longer in development.

I am not a tech expert, so maybe I missed the new repo, but it seems to me another example of abandonware.

What is Cuckoo Sandbox?

Cuckoo Sandbox is a modular, automated malware analysis system. Running from command-line on a Linux or Mac host, it uses python and virtualization (VirtualBox, QEMU-KVM, etc) to create an isolated Windows guest environment to safely and automatically run and analyze files to collect comprehensive file behavior analysis. These results outline what the malware does while running inside an isolated Windows operating system, including Win32 API calls, files created/deleted, memory dumps, network traffic trace, screenshots of execution behavior, and full memory dumps of virtual machines.

Malwr.com is a free, non-commercial, closed-source example of a running instance of Cuckoo Sandbox while also using VirusTotal (Google subsidiary) APIs and libraries to present the file analysis.

Supported Host Operating Systems: GNU/Linux (Debian/Ubuntu preferred), Mac OS X Required Host Software: Python-2.7, Virtualization (VirtualBox, QEMU-KVM, etc) Supported Virtualized Operating Systems: Windows XP Service Pack 3, Windows Vista, Windows 7

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