Synopsis

This is a simple standalone Ansible script for building a Cuckoo Sandbox server. The following capabilities are included:

• Cuckoo Sandbox v2.0RC2 (current version)
• Web UI
• Yara v3.5.0
• Volatility v2.6
• Elasticsearch v2.x
• SSDeep
• Support for ESX, vSphere and KVM machinery

Installation

This installation process has been tested against a fresh install of ubuntu-16.04.1-server-amd64 with the following package options:

• standard system utilities
• OpenSSH server

After the base OS install a dist-upgrade was conducted:

apt-get update & apt-get dist-upgrade

Installation of the Cuckoo environment is done with the following steps:

Note: This proccess takes about ~6 minutes to complete.

1. Clone this repository: git clone https://github.com/PingTrip/Ansible_Cuckoo.git
2. If you have any pre-configured Cuckoo files place them in the ./conf_files directory.
3. Replace the placeholders in the install command with the correct ones for your installation:

ansible-playbook -i "HOST," -e "ansible_ssh_user=ADMIN" --ask-pass --ask-sudo-pass install_cuckoo.yml

• HOST is the IP address of the server to install Cuckoo to. Note: the comma after the HOST is not a typo. Ansible is expecting a list, so the comma is required
• ADMIN is a user with sudo privileges on the server

By default, Cuckoo will be installed to /opt/cuckoo and a cuckoo user will be created. These values can be modified at the top of the script:

cuckoo_user: 'cuckoo'
cuckoo_dir: '/opt/cuckoo'

Usage

Once the installation has completed run the following as the "cuckoo" user:

cd /opt/cuckoo/web
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8080 &
cd ..
./cuckoo.py