Optional features

This sections contains various information about optional features that may be enabled when setting up DRAKVUF Sandbox.

ZFS storage backend

If you want to install DRAKVUF Sandbox with a ZFS storage backend, you should perform the following extra steps before executing draksetup install command:

Install ZFS on your machine (guide for: Debian Buster, Ubuntu 18.04)
Create a ZFS pool on a free partition:
```
# zpool create tank <partition_name>
```
where <partiton_name> is e.g. /dev/sda3. Be aware that all data stored on the selected partition may be erased.
Create a dataset for DRAKVUF Sandbox:
```
# zfs create tank/vms
```
Execute draksetup install as in “Basic installation” section, but remembering to provide additional command line switches:
```
--storage-backend zfs --zfs-tank-name tank/vms
```

Networking

Note

Even though that the guest Internet connectivity is an optional feature, drakrun would always make some changes to your host system’s network configuration:

Always:

Each instance of drakrun@<vm_id> will create a bridge drak<vm_id>, assign 10.13.<vm_id>.1/24 IP address/subnet to it and bring the interface up.
drakrun will drop any INPUT traffic originating from drak<vm_id> bridge, except DHCP traffic (UDP ports: 67, 68).

Only with net_enable=1:

drakrun will enable IPv4 forwarding.
drakrun will configure MASQUERADE through out_interface for packets originating from 10.13.<vm_id>.0/24.
drakrun will DROP traffic between drak<X> and drak<Y> bridges for X != Y.

In order to find out the exact details of the network configuration, search for _add_iptable_rule function usages in drakrun/drakrun/main.py file.

Basic networking

If you want your guest VMs to access Internet, you can enable networking by editing [drakrun] section in /etc/drakrun/config.ini:

Set net_enable=1 in order to enable guest Internet access.
Check if out_interface was detected properly (e.g. ens33) and if not, correct this setting.

After making changes to /etc/drakrun, you need to restart all drakrun services that are running in your system:

# systemctl restart 'drakrun@*'

Be aware that if your sandbox instance is already running some analyses, the above command will gracefully wait up to a few minutes until these are completed.

Using dnschef

You may optionally configure your guests to use dnschef.

Setup dnschef tool.
Start dnschef in such way to make it listen on all drak* interfaces that belong to DRAKVUF Sandbox.
Set dns_server=use-gateway-address in /etc/drakrun/config.ini.
Restart your drakrun instances: systemctl restart 'drakrun@*.

MS Office file support

There is an experimental support for analyzing word and excel samples. However this requires that you have Microsoft Office installed.

The steps below should be completed on guest vm before creating the snapshot (e.g. before you run draksetup postinstall). If you want to modify the existing snapshot, please refer to snapshot modification.

Install Microsoft Office. You can use draksetup mount /path/to/office.iso command to insert Office installation media during VM setup. After installation, you should be able to start word/excel by running start winword.exe, start excel.exe from command line.

Adjust the registry keys by executing this .reg file:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Word\Security]
"VBAWarnings"=dword:00000001
"AccessVBOM"=dword:00000001
"ExtensionHardening"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Excel\Security]
"VBAWarnings"=dword:00000001
"AccessVBOM"=dword:00000001
"ExtensionHardening"=dword:00000000

(change 14.0 to your Office version, see registry key by product name)

ProcDOT integration

DRAKVUF Sandbox may optionally draw a behavioral graph using ProcDOT, if drakcore will find it’s binary installed at /opt/procdot/procmon2dot.

Download ProcDOT (Linux version).
With your downloaded procdot*_linux.zip archive, execute the following commands:

# unzip -o procdot*_linux.zip lin64/* -d /tmp/procdot
# mv /tmp/procdot/lin64 /opt/procdot
# chmod +x /opt/procdot/procmon2dot

Your new analysis reports will also contain behavioral graphs.