Preparing the Guest (Physical Machine)

Warning

This chapter only applies for a Physical Machine setup! For normal Cuckoo usage please ignore it.

At this point you should have configured the Cuckoo host component and you should have designed and defined the number and the names of the physical machines you are going to use for malware execution.

Now it’s time to create such machines and to configure them properly.

• Creation of the Physical Machine
• Requirements
  • Install Python
  • Additional Software
  • Additional Host Requirements
  • Cuckoo Configuration Requirements
• Network Configuration
  • Windows Settings
  • Networking
• Installing the Agent
• Saving the Guest
  • Fog
  • Setup using VMWare (Bonus!)