Practical malware analysis based on sandboxing

The past years have shown an increase in the both number and sophistication of cyber-attacks targeting Windows and Linux operating systems. Traditional network security solutions such as firewalls are incapable of detecting and stopping these attacks. In this paper, we describe our distributed firewall solution Distfw and its integration with a sandbox for malware analysis and detection. We demonstrate the effectiveness and shortcomings of such a solution. We use Cuckoo to perform automated analysis of malware samples and compare the results with the ones from manual analysis. We discover that Cuckoo provides similar results in a considerable amount of time.