Malice - Free open source version of VirusTotal

Malice's mission is to be a free open source version of VirusTotal that anyone can use at any scale from an independent researcher to a fortune 500 company.

Install

$ brew install maliceio/tap/malice

Usage: malice [OPTIONS] COMMAND [arg...]

Open Source Malware Analysis Framework

Version: 0.3.11

Author:
  blacktop - <https://github.com/blacktop>

Options:
  --debug, -D      Enable debug mode [$MALICE_DEBUG]
  --help, -h       show help
  --version, -v    print the version

Commands:
  scan        Scan a file
  watch        Watch a folder
  lookup    Look up a file hash
  elk        Start an ELK docker container
  plugin    List, Install or Remove Plugins
  help        Shows a list of commands or help for one command

Run 'malice COMMAND --help' for more information on a command.

Scan some malware

$ malice scan evil.malware

NOTE: On the first run malice will download all of it's default plugins which can take a while to complete.

Malice will output the results as a markdown table that can be piped or copied into a results.md that will look great on Github see here

Start Malice's Web UI

$ malice elk

You can open the Kibana UI and look at the scan results here: http://localhost (assuming you are using Docker for Mac)

• Type in malice as the Index name or pattern and click Create.
• Now click on the Malice Tab and behold!!!

Getting Started (Docker in Docker)

   

Install/Update all Plugins

docker run --rm -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock malice/engine plugin update --all

Scan a file

docker run --rm -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
                -v `pwd`:/malice/samples \
                -e MALICE_VT_API=$MALICE_VT_API \
                malice/engine scan SAMPLE

Documentation

• Documentation
• Plugins
• Examples
• Roadmap
• Contributing

Known Issues ⚠️

If you are having issues with malice connecting/writting to elasticsearch please see the following:

I have noticed when running the new 5.0+ version of malice/elasticsearch on a linux host you need to increase the memory map areas with the following command

sudo sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144

Elasticsearch requires a LOT of RAM to run smoothly. You can lower it to 2GB by running the following (before running a scan):

$ docker run -d \
         -p 9200:9200 \
         -name malice-elastic \
         -e ES_JAVA_OPTS="-Xms2g -Xmx2g" \
         malice/elasticsearch

See here for more details on Known Issues/FAQs ⚠️

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