Malware Analysis: Sandboxing

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Malware Analysis: Sandboxing

In this lab, you’ll practice running malware in a sandbox and analyzing the results. When you’re finished, you’ll have experience using open-source tooling to analyze malware and learn what information they can reveal. Lastly, we will introduce some sandbox evasion techniques that demonstrate the challenges modern sandboxes face.

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Lab Info

Rating

(49)

Level

Beginner

Last updated

Aug 05, 2025

Duration

1h 10m

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Getting Started in the Lab Environment

Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!
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Malware Triage With a Custom Sandbox

This challenge will discuss what online resources you have available to upload malware samples. We will go over which sandboxes are free and some other tools that can be used to begin triage. We will describe the methodology of building your own Sandbox using open-source tools like Capa, SpeakEasy, and Floss. Finally, we will upload some malware to our custom sandbox and analyze the output.
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Malware Development and Anti-Analysis Techniques

We will go over some anti-sandbox techniques commonly used today. These are commonly found in highly evasive samples used by APTs, cyber criminals and advanced red teams.
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The Last Challenge

Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.

About the author

Aaron Diaz

Aaron Diaz has worked primarily as a government contractor working with different branches of the military and government agencies. Aaron has worked as a Threat Hunter, Malware Reverse Engineer, Software Developer, and a Penetration tester. He is passionate about reverse engineering software and all things related to offensive security (malware/exploit development). During his tenure on a Threat Hunting team, he became the lead Malware Reverse Engineer. This sparked a love for understanding how APTs develop their malware and the creativity of their designs. Currently, Aaron is a penetration tester working with a small team specializing in reverse engineering and exploit development. Aaron is the founder and CEO of Elusive Threat Research, specializing in offensive and defensive research for sophisticated threats.

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