Submit an analysis¶
In order to submit a file to be analyzed you can:
- Use provided submit.py utility.
- Directly interact with the SQLite database.
- Use Cuckoo Python functions directly from Cuckoo’s library.
Submission Utility¶
The easiest way to submit an analysis is to use the provided submit.py command-line utility. It currently has the following options available:
Usage: submit.py [options] filepath
Options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-t TIMEOUT, --timeout=TIMEOUT
Specify analysis execution time limit
-p PACKAGE, --package=PACKAGE
Specify custom analysis package name
-r PRIORITY, --priority=PRIORITY
Specify an analysis priority expressed in integer
-c CUSTOM, --custom=CUSTOM
Specify any custom value to be passed to postprocessing
-d, --download Specify if the target is an URL to be downloaded
-u, --url Specify if the target is an URL to be analyzed
-m MACHINE, --machine=MACHINE
Specify a virtual machine you want to specifically use for this analysis
The concept of analysis packages will be dealt later in this documentation (at Analysis Packages). Following are some usage examples:
Example: submit a local binary:
$ python submit.py /path/to/binary
Example: submit a local binary and specify an higher priority:
$ python submit.py /path/to/binary --priority 5
Example: submit a local binary and specify a custom analysis timeout of 60 seconds:
$ python submit.py /path/to/binary --timeout 60
Example: submit a local binary and specify a custom analysis package:
$ python submit.py /path/to/binary --package <name of package>
Example: submit an URL to be downloaded locally and analyzed:
$ python submit.py --download http://www.website.tld/file.exe
Example: submit an URL to be analyzed within Internet Explorer:
$ python submit.py --url http://maliciousurl.tld/exploit.php
Example: submit a local binary to be run on virtual machine cuckoo1:
$ python submit.py /path/to/binary --machine cuckoo1
Interact with SQLite¶
Cuckoo is designed to be easily integrated in larger solutions and to be fully automated. In order to automate analysis submission or to provide a different interface rather than the command-line (for instance a web interface), you can directly interact with the SQLite database located at db/cuckoo.db.
The database contains the table queue which is defined as the following schema:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 CREATE TABLE queue ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, md5 TEXT DEFAULT NULL, target TEXT NOT NULL, timeout INTEGER DEFAULT NULL, priority INTEGER DEFAULT 0, added_on DATE DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, completed_on DATE DEFAULT NULL, package TEXT DEFAULT NULL, lock INTEGER DEFAULT 0, status INTEGER DEFAULT 0, custom TEXT DEFAULT NULL, vm_id TEXT DEFAULT NULL );
Following are the details on the fields:
id
: it’s the numeric ID also used to name the results folder of the analysis.md5
: it’s the MD5 hash of the target file.target
: it’s the path pointing to the file to analyze.timeout
: it’s the analysis timeout, if none has been specified the field is set to NULL.priority
: it’s the analysis priority, if none has been specified the field is set to NULL.added_on
: it’s the timestamp of when the analysis request was added.completed_on
: it’s the timestamp of when the analysis has been completed.package
: it’s the name of the analysis package to be used, if non has been specified the field is set to NULL.lock
: it’s field internally used by Cuckoo to lock pending analysis.status
: it’s a numeric field representing the status of the analysis (0 = not completed, 1 = completed successfully, 2 = failed).custom
: it’s a custom user-defined text that can be used for synchronization between submission and post-analysis processing.vm_id
: it’s the ID (as defined in cuckoo.conf) of a virtual machine the user specifically wants to use for the analysis.
Cuckoo Python Functions¶
In case you want to write your own Python submission script, you can use the
add_task()
function provided by Cuckoo, which has the following prototype:
def add_task(self, target, md5 = None, timeout = None, package = None, priority = None, custom = None, vm_id = None)
Following is a usage example:
1 2 3 4 5 #!/usr/bin/python from cuckoo.core.db import CuckooDatabase db = CuckooDatabase() db.add_task("/path/to/binary")