Building a Custom Malware Analysis Lab Environment
Introduction
Building the right malware analysis environment is the first step for every malware researcher. When all system configurations and software installations are complete, you’re able to analyze and investigate malware properly. In this post, I wanted to share my own experiences and scripts to help ease the workload of setting up a malware environment to explore malicious software.
In this post, you will learn how to:
download, install and configure a free Windows 10 and a free REMnux Linux virtual machine
set up a virtual private network for communication between virtual machines
build a custom Windows malware environment with SentinelLabs RevCore Tools
learn how to capture network traffic from a Windows 10 virtual machine