analyzing-malware-behavior-with-cuckoo-sandbox

analyzing-malware-behavior-with-cuckoo-sandbox is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up. It costs 93 tokens per session (2,905 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of analyzing-malware-behavior-with-cuckoo-sandbox, MIT.

A workflow for running suspicious software samples in Cuckoo Sandbox and recording what they do. Cuckoo Sandbox is an isolated virtual testing environment for observing malware behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Capturing processes, file and registry changes, network communication, API calls, dropped files, infection chains, and indicators for classification or YARA rule creation.
Why use it?
It reveals runtime activity that may not be visible from inspecting the sample alone, while keeping execution inside a controlled environment.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Capturing processes, file and registry changes, network communication, API calls, dropped files, infection chains, and indicators for classification or YARA rule creation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/youngmaidainon/agent-level-up/analyzing-malware-behavior-with-cuckoo-sandbox
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up --skill analyzing-malware-behavior-with-cuckoo-sandbox
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,905 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00093 $0.02905
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.01452
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00581
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00291

Measured 10d ago against content hash bc104cd5aa50, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyzing-malware-behavior-with-cuckoo-sandbox scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/agent.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -F "[email protected]" -F "timeout=300" -F "machine=win10_x64" \
Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to analyzing-malware-behavior-with-cuckoo-sandbox — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

cyber-security/ctf/analyzing-malware-behavior-with-cuckoo-sandbox/SKILL.md · 305 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 305 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Analyzing Malware Behavior with Cuckoo Sandbox

When to Use

  • A suspicious sample passed static analysis triage and requires behavioral observation in a controlled environment
  • You need to capture network traffic, file drops, registry modifications, and API calls from a malware execution
  • Determining the full infection chain including second-stage payload downloads and persistence mechanisms
  • Generating behavioral signatures and YARA rules based on observed runtime activity
  • Automated analysis of bulk malware samples requiring consistent reporting

Do not use when the sample is a known ransomware variant that may spread via network shares in a misconfigured sandbox; verify network isolation first.

Prerequisites

  • Cuckoo Sandbox 3.x installed on a dedicated analysis server (Ubuntu 22.04 recommended)
  • Guest VMs configured with Windows 10/11 snapshots (Cuckoo agent installed, snapshots taken at clean state)
  • VirtualBox, KVM, or VMware configured as the Cuckoo virtualization backend
  • Isolated network with InetSim or FakeNet-NG for simulating internet services
  • Suricata or Snort integrated for network-level signature matching during analysis
  • Sufficient disk space for PCAP captures and memory dumps (minimum 500 GB recommended)

Workflow

Step 1: Submit Sample to Cuckoo

Submit the malware sample for automated analysis:

# Submit via command line
cuckoo submit /path/to/suspect.exe

# Submit with specific analysis timeout (300 seconds)
cuckoo submit --timeout 300 /path/to/suspect.exe

# Submit with specific VM and analysis package
cuckoo submit --machine win10_x64 --package exe --timeout 300 /path/to/suspect.exe

# Submit via REST API
curl -F "[email protected]" -F "timeout=300" -F "machine=win10_x64" \
  http://localhost:8090/tasks/create/file

# Submit URL for analysis
curl -F "url=http://malicious-site.com/payload" -F "timeout=300" \
  http://localhost:8090/tasks/create/url

# Check task status
curl http://localhost:8090/tasks/view/1 | jq '.task.status'

Read the full file on GitHub · 305 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 305 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A bc104cd5aa50

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analyzing-malware-behavior-with-cuckoo-sandbox is a skill published in the GitHub repository Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up (3 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 2,905 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 100% identical to analyzing-malware-behavior-with-cuckoo-sandbox, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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