Starting Cuckoo

To start Cuckoo use the command:

$ python cuckoo.py

Make sure to run it inside Cuckoo’s root directory.

You will get an output similar to this:

  eeee e   e eeee e   e  eeeee eeeee
  8  8 8   8 8  8 8   8  8  88 8  88
  8e   8e  8 8e   8eee8e 8   8 8   8
  88   88  8 88   88   8 8   8 8   8
  88e8 88ee8 88e8 88   8 8eee8 8eee8

 Cuckoo Sandbox 0.6
 www.cuckoosandbox.org
 Copyright (c) 2010-2013

 Checking for updates...
 Good! You have the latest version available.

2013-04-07 15:57:17,459 [lib.cuckoo.core.scheduler] INFO: Using "virtualbox" machine manager
2013-04-07 15:57:17,861 [lib.cuckoo.core.scheduler] INFO: Loaded 1 machine/s
2013-04-07 15:57:17,862 [lib.cuckoo.core.scheduler] INFO: Waiting for analysis tasks...

Note that Cuckoo checks for updates on a remote API located at api.cuckoosandbox.org. You can avoid this by disabling the version_check option in the configuration file.

Now Cuckoo is ready to run and it’s waiting for submissions.

cuckoo.py accepts some command line options as shown by the help:

usage: cuckoo.py [-h] [-q] [-d] [-v] [-a]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  -q, --quiet    Display only error messages
  -d, --debug    Display debug messages
  -v, --version  show program's version number and exit
  -a, --artwork  Show artwork

Most importantly --debug and --quiet respectively increase and decrease the logging verbosity.