Starting CuckooΒΆ
To start Cuckoo use the command:
$ python cuckoo.py
Make sure to run it inside Cuckoo’s root directory.
You will get an output similar to this:
eeee e e eeee e e eeeee eeeee
8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 88 8 88
8e 8e 8 8e 8eee8e 8 8 8 8
88 88 8 88 88 8 8 8 8 8
88e8 88ee8 88e8 88 8 8eee8 8eee8
Cuckoo Sandbox 1.0
www.cuckoosandbox.org
Copyright (c) 2010-2014
Checking for updates...
Good! You have the latest version available.
2013-04-07 15:57:17,459 [lib.cuckoo.core.scheduler] INFO: Using "virtualbox" machine manager
2013-04-07 15:57:17,861 [lib.cuckoo.core.scheduler] INFO: Loaded 1 machine/s
2013-04-07 15:57:17,862 [lib.cuckoo.core.scheduler] INFO: Waiting for analysis tasks...
Note that Cuckoo checks for updates on a remote API located at api.cuckoosandbox.org.
You can avoid this by disabling the version_check
option in the configuration file.
Now Cuckoo is ready to run and it’s waiting for submissions.
cuckoo.py
accepts some command line options as shown by the help:
usage: cuckoo.py [-h] [-q] [-d] [-v] [-a]
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-q, --quiet Display only error messages
-d, --debug Display debug messages
-v, --version show program's version number and exit
-a, --artwork Show artwork
Most importantly --debug
and --quiet
respectively increase and decrease the logging
verbosity.