This chapter explains how to install Peekaboo and its dependencies. In this chapter we assume that you want to use Peekaboo's extended capabilities to perform behavioural analysis of files and directores with Cuckoo. Further, we assume that you want to install AMaViSd to run analysis of email attachments. Also, we assume that you use a Debian based Linux distribution.
We are going to use python virtual environments to install cuckoo and Peekaboo together with their respective dependencies, because they might conflict with each other when trying to install all of them in the same environment (virtual or host).
Install the required packages:
sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv \
python-pip \
postfix \
amavisd-new \
libjpeg-dev \
zlib1g-dev \
libffi-dev \
libssl-dev \
build-essential \
python-dev \
tcpdump
Note for AMaViSd:
Write the hosts FQDN into /etc/hosts
. The first line should look like
127.0.0.1 host.example.com host localhost
You can verify the configuration by typing hostname --fqdn
.
This step is important for AMaViSd.
Depending on which DBMS you choose, there are additional packages to install.
$ sudo apt-get install python-sqlite sqlite3
$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client python-mysqldb
$ sudo apt-get install postgresql python-psycopg2
Create a new python virtual environment and install cuckoo into it using pip:
$ sudo virtualenv /opt/cuckoo
$ sudo /opt/cuckoo/bin/pip install cuckoo
In order to test your new Cuckoo installation you should run it once:
$ /opt/cuckoo/bin/cuckoo
Note: We're assuming these actions to be executed by the user the tools will be running as. If doing more than testing and development, a separate run user should be created for Peekaboo.
A released version of Peekaboo can be installed directly via pip as follows:
$ sudo virtualenv /opt/peekaboo
$ sudo /opt/peekaboo/bin/pip install peekabooav
Peekaboo can also be installed from the source directory which is useful in development or when trying out unreleased versions.
Start with either an unpacked tarball of the source or check it out using git:
$ git clone https://github.com/scVENUS/PeekabooAV.git
$ cd PeekabooAV
Optionally a specific release, commit or branch can be found and checkout out:
$ git tag
$ git branch
$ git checkout v1.x.x
The below commands again create a virtual environment and install Peekaboo together with all its dependencies into it:
$ sudo virtualenv /opt/peekaboo
$ sudo /opt/peekaboo/bin/pip install .
Note: Do not use ./setup.py install
for installation since there are
bugs in setuptools which make dependency resolution fail sometimes.
Note: If you want to install Peekaboo for your system wide Python, leave
out the virtualenv command and just run the system pip as root
.
Dependencies can and will be provided by distribution packages if installed
before running pip.
It will however install additional dependencies into /usr/local
.
This might include updates of already installed system packages and
pip will remove the old versions from the system python directories.
This can get very confusing and complicated over time, leading to unexpected
behaviour.
Again, virtual environments are recommended here.