REST API¶

As mentioned in Submit an Analysis, Cuckoo provides a simple and lightweight REST API server implemented in Bottle.py, therefore in order to make the service work you’ll need it installed, Bottle release must be 0.10 or above.

On Debian/Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get install python-bottle

With Pip:

$ pip install bottle

Starting the API server¶

In order to start the API server you can simply do:

$ ./utils/api.py

By default it will bind the service on localhost:8090. If you want to change those values, you can for example with:

$ ./utils/api.py --host 0.0.0.0 --port 1337

Resources¶

Following is a list of currently available resources and a brief description. For details click on the resource name.

Resource	Description
`POST` /tasks/create/file	Adds a file to the list of pending tasks to be processed and analyzed.
`POST` /tasks/create/url	Adds an URL to the list of pending tasks to be processed and analyzed.
`GET` /tasks/list	Returns the list of tasks stored in the internal Cuckoo database. You can optionally specify a limit of entries to return.
`GET` /tasks/view	Returns the details on the task assigned to the specified ID.
`GET` /tasks/delete	Removes the given task from the database and deletes the results.
`GET` /tasks/report	Returns the report generated out of the analysis of the task associated with the specified ID. You can optionally specify which report format to return, if none is specified the JSON report will be returned.
`GET` /files/view	Search the analyzed binaries by MD5 hash, SHA256 hash or internal ID (referenced by the tasks details).
`GET` /files/get	Returns the content of the binary with the specified SHA256 hash.
`GET` /machines/list	Returns the list of analysis machines available to Cuckoo.
`GET` /machines/view	Returns details on the analysis machine associated with the specified name.
`GET` /cuckoo/status	Returns the basic cuckoo status, including version and tasks overview

/tasks/create/file¶

POST /tasks/create/file
Adds a file to the list of pending tasks. Returns the ID of the newly created task.

Example request:
curl -F file=@/path/to/file http://localhost:8090/tasks/create/file
Example response:
{
    "task_id" : 1
}
Form parameters:

file (required) - path to the file to submit

package (optional) - analysis package to be used for the analysis

timeout (optional) (int) - analysis timeout (in seconds)

priority (optional) (int) - priority to assign to the task (1-3)

options (optional) - options to pass to the analysis package

machine (optional) - ID of the analysis machine to use for the analysis

platform (optional) - name of the platform to select the analysis machine from (e.g. “windows”)

tags (optional) - define machine to start by tags. Platform must be set to use that. Tags are comma separated

custom (optional) - custom string to pass over the analysis and the processing/reporting modules

memory (optional) - enable the creation of a full memory dump of the analysis machine

enforce_timeout (optional) - enable to enforce the execution for the full timeout value

clock (optional) - set virtual machine clock (format %m-%d-%Y %H:%M:%S)

Status codes:

200 - no error

/tasks/create/url¶

POST /tasks/create/url
Adds a file to the list of pending tasks. Returns the ID of the newly created task.

Example request:
curl -F url="http://www.malicious.site" http://localhost:8090/tasks/create/url
Example response:
{
    "task_id" : 1
}
Form parameters:

url (required) - URL to analyze

package (optional) - analysis package to be used for the analysis

timeout (optional) (int) - analysis timeout (in seconds)

priority (optional) (int) - priority to assign to the task (1-3)

options (optional) - options to pass to the analysis package

machine (optional) - ID of the analysis machine to use for the analysis

platform (optional) - name of the platform to select the analysis machine from (e.g. “windows”)

tags (optional) - define machine to start by tags. Platform must be set to use that. Tags are comma separated

custom (optional) - custom string to pass over the analysis and the processing/reporting modules

memory (optional) - enable the creation of a full memory dump of the analysis machine

enforce_timeout (optional) - enable to enforce the execution for the full timeout value

clock (optional) - set virtual machine clock (format %m-%d-%Y %H:%M:%S)

Status codes:

200 - no error

/tasks/list¶

GET /tasks/list/ (int: limit) / (int: offset)

Returns list of tasks.

Example request:

curl http://localhost:8090/tasks/list

Example response:

{
    "tasks": [
        {
            "category": "url",
            "machine": null,
            "errors": [],
            "target": "http://www.malicious.site",
            "package": null,
            "sample_id": null,
            "guest": {},
            "custom": null,
            "priority": 1,
            "platform": null,
            "options": null,
            "status": "pending",
            "enforce_timeout": false,
            "timeout": 0,
            "memory": false,
            "tags": []
            "id": 1,
            "added_on": "2012-12-19 14:18:25",
            "completed_on": null
        },
        {
            "category": "file",
            "machine": null,
            "errors": [],
            "target": "/tmp/malware.exe",
            "package": null,
            "sample_id": 1,
            "guest": {},
            "custom": null,
            "priority": 1,
            "platform": null,
            "options": null,
            "status": "pending",
            "enforce_timeout": false,
            "timeout": 0,
            "memory": false,
            "tags": [
                        "32bit",
                        "acrobat_6",
                    ],
            "id": 2,
            "added_on": "2012-12-19 14:18:25",
            "completed_on": null
        }
    ]
}

Parameters:

limit (optional) (int) - maximum number of returned tasks
offset (optional) (int) - data offset

Status codes:

200 - no error

/tasks/view¶

GET /tasks/view/ (int: id)

Returns details on the task associated with the specified ID.

Example request:

curl http://localhost:8090/tasks/view/1

Example response:

{
    "task": {
        "category": "url",
        "machine": null,
        "errors": [],
        "target": "http://www.malicious.site",
        "package": null,
        "sample_id": null,
        "guest": {},
        "custom": null,
        "priority": 1,
        "platform": null,
        "options": null,
        "status": "pending",
        "enforce_timeout": false,
        "timeout": 0,
        "memory": false,
        "tags": [
                    "32bit",
                    "acrobat_6",
                ],
        "id": 1,
        "added_on": "2012-12-19 14:18:25",
        "completed_on": null
    }
}

Parameters:

id (required) (int) - ID of the task to lookup

Status codes:

200 - no error
404 - task not found

/tasks/delete¶

GET /tasks/delete/ (int: id)
Removes the given task from the database and deletes the results.

Example request:
curl http://localhost:8090/tasks/delete/1
Parameters:

id (required) (int) - ID of the task to delete

Status codes:

200 - no error

404 - task not found

500 - unable to delete the task

/tasks/report¶

GET /tasks/report/ (int: id) / (str: format)
Returns the report associated with the specified task ID.

Example request:
curl http://localhost:8090/tasks/report/1
Parameters:

id (required) (int) - ID of the task to get the report for

format (optional) - format of the report to retrieve [json/html/maec/metadata/all/dropped]. If none is specified the JSON report will be returned. all returns all the result files as tar.bz2, dropped the dropped files as tar.bz2

Status codes:

200 - no error

400 - invalid report format

404 - report not found

/files/view¶

GET /files/view/md5/ (str: md5)

GET /files/view/sha256/ (str: sha256)

GET /files/view/id/ (int: id)
Returns details on the file matching either the specified MD5 hash, SHA256 hash or ID.

Example request:
curl http://localhost:8090/files/view/id/1
Example response:
{
    "sample": {
        "sha1": "da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709",
        "file_type": "empty",
        "file_size": 0,
        "crc32": "00000000",
        "ssdeep": "3::",
        "sha256": "e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855",
        "sha512": "cf83e1357eefb8bdf1542850d66d8007d620e4050b5715dc83f4a921d36ce9ce47d0d13c5d85f2b0ff8318d2877eec2f63b931bd47417a81a538327af927da3e",
        "id": 1,
        "md5": "d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e"
    }
}
Parameters:

md5 (optional) - MD5 hash of the file to lookup

sha256 (optional) - SHA256 hash of the file to lookup

id (optional) (int) - ID of the file to lookup

Status codes:

200 - no error

400 - invalid lookup term

404 - file not found

/files/get¶

GET /files/get/ (str: sha256)
Returns the binary content of the file matching the specified SHA256 hash.

Example request:
curl http://localhost:8090/files/get/e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855 > sample.exe
Status codes:

200 - no error

404 - file not found

/machines/list¶

GET /machines/list

Returns a list with details on the analysis machines available to Cuckoo.

Example request:

curl http://localhost:8090/machines/list

Example response:

{
    "machines": [
        {
            "status": null,
            "locked": false,
            "name": "cuckoo1",
            "resultserver_ip": "192.168.56.1",
            "ip": "192.168.56.101",
            "tags": [
                        "32bit",
                        "acrobat_6",
                    ],
            "label": "cuckoo1",
            "locked_changed_on": null,
            "platform": "windows",
            "snapshot": null,
            "interface": null,
            "status_changed_on": null,
            "id": 1,
            "resultserver_port": "2042"
        }
    ]
}

Status codes:

200 - no error

/machines/view¶

GET /machines/view/ (str: name)

Returns details on the analysis machine associated with the given name.

Example request:

curl http://localhost:8090/machines/view/cuckoo1

Example response:

{
    "machine": {
        "status": null,
        "locked": false,
        "name": "cuckoo1",
        "resultserver_ip": "192.168.56.1",
        "ip": "192.168.56.101",
        "tags": [
                    "32bit",
                    "acrobat_6",
                ],
        "label": "cuckoo1",
        "locked_changed_on": null,
        "platform": "windows",
        "snapshot": null,
        "interface": null,
        "status_changed_on": null,
        "id": 1,
        "resultserver_port": "2042"
    }
}

Status codes:

200 - no error
404 - machine not found

/cuckoo/status¶

GET /cuckoo/status/

Returns status of the cuckoo server.

Example request:

curl http://localhost:8090/cuckoo/status

Example response:

{
    "tasks": {
        "reported": 165,
        "running": 2,
        "total": 167,
        "completed": 0,
        "pending": 0
    },
    "version": "1.0",
    "protocol_version": 1,
    "hostname": "Patient0",
    "machines": {
        "available": 4,
        "total": 5
    }
    "tools":["vanilla"]
}

Status codes:

200 - no error
404 - machine not found