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  ________________________________________________________
                       Developed by
                   [email protected]
                 FLARE Team at Mandiant
  ________________________________________________________

Welcome to FLARE VM - a fully customizable, Windows-based security distribution for malware analysis, incident response, penetration testing, etc.

Please see https://www.mandiant.com/resources/flare-vm-update for a blog on installing FLARE VM.

Updates

Version 3.0 Updates

FLARE VM version 3.0 now supports Windows 10. The installer has been tested on Windows 10 VMs provided by Microsoft below:

Windows 10 with Microsoft Edge: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/
Windows 10 development environment: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines/

Version 2.3 Updates

Chocolatey now requires PowerShell v3 (or higher) and .NET 4.0 (or higher) due to recent upgrades to TLS 1.2. Please ensure .NET 4+ and PowerShell v3+ are installed prior to attempting FLARE VM installation. Below are links to download .NET 4.5 and WMF 5.1 (PowerShell 5.1).

Version 2.0 Updates

Starting with version 2.0, FLARE VM has introduced breaking changes with previous versions. A fresh installation in a clean Virtual Machine is recommended.

Starting with version 2.0, FLARE VM uses the following environment variables:

TOOL_LIST_DIR: The default value is set to %PROGRAMDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\FLARE.
TOOL_LIST_SHORTCUT: The default value is set to %USERPROFILE%\Desktop\FLARE.lnk.

The installer script sets those environment variables automatically. If there are issues during installation, please verify that those environment variables are set correctly.

Installation

Requirements

60 GB Hard Drive
- Additional space needed after VM is downloaded/installed
2 GB RAM

Windows 10 Installation

Pre-installation Steps

Download one of the VMs from the links provided above
- Import the .ovf if necessary
Disable Windows Defender by following the procedures outlined at:
- https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/15788/how-to-uninstall-disable-and-remove-windows-defender-also-how-turn-it-off/
Additionally make sure to disable the following settings:
- Disable real-time protection
- Disable cloud-delivered protection
- Disable automatic sample submission
- Add the directory C:\ to the exclusion list
Take a snapshot of your machine!

Installations Steps

Download and copy install.ps1 onto your new VM
Open PowerShell as an Administrator
Unblock the install file by running:
- Unblock-File .\install.ps1
Enable script execution by running:
- Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted
Finally, execute the installer script as follow:
- .\install.ps1
- You can also pass your password as an argument: .\install.ps1 -password <password>

Post-installation Steps

If the background was not successfully set:
- Navigate to %PROGRAMDATA%\chocolatey\lib\flarevm.win10.config.flare\tools and right click flarevm.png
- Right click flarevm.png and select Set as desktop background
Update your VM's networking settings to Host-Only
Make it yours!
- Customize your taskbar with various shortcuts
- Customize your color scheme
Take a snapshot!

Windows 7 x64 Installation

Pre-Installations Steps

Create and configure a new Windows Virtual Machine
- FLARE VM is designed to be installed on Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or newer
- Allow for a total of 50-60 GB disk storage (including OS)
- Ensure VM is updated completely. You may have to check for updates, reboot, and check again until no more remain
Install .NET 4.5 and WMF 5.1 from the following links:
- .NET 4.5 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30653
- WMF 5.1 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=54616
- Make sure you restart the VM to complete the installation
Take a snapshot of your machine!

Installation Steps

Download and copy install.ps1 onto your newly configured machine
Open PowerShell as an Administrator
Enable script execution by running the following command:
- Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted
Finally, execute the installer script as follows:
- .\install.ps1
- You can also pass your password as an argument: .\install.ps1 -password <password>

Post-installation Steps

If the background was not successfully set:
- Navigate to %PROGRAMDATA%\chocolatey\lib\flarevm.config.flare\tools and right click flarevm.png
- Right click flarevm.png and select Set as desktop background
Update your VM's networking settings to Host-Only
Make it yours!
- Customize your taskbar with various shortcuts
- Customize your color scheme
Take a snapshot!

Customized Package Selection

You can now select which packages you wish to install!

NOTE: By customizing your own packages list, you will NOT automatically get the newly added packages by simply running cup all. You can always manually install a new package by using cinst or choco install command.
For a list of available packages to use, please refer to packages.csv
Create and configure a new Windows Virtual Machine.
Take your initial snapshot before installing FLARE VM
Download and copy install.ps1 on to your new VM
Download and copy profile.json on to your new VM
Download and copy flarevm.installer.flare or flarevm.win10.installer.fireeye directory on to your new VM
Modify the profile.json file:
- Most of the fields within env data should be left unchanged.
- Modify the TEMPLATE_DIR entry to match the correct template for your VM.
- Modify the packages list in the JSON file to only include the packages you would like to install. Please refer to packages.csv for a full list of packages available
Open PowerShell as an Administrator
Enable script execution by running the following command:
- Set-ExecutionPolicy unrestricted
Finally, execute the installer by providing profile.json using the -profile_file switch, assuming profile.json, install.ps1 and the template directory (flarevm.installer.flare or flarevm.win10.installer.fireeye) are all in the same directory:
- .\install.ps1 -profile_file profile.json
- Optionally, you can also pass the following flags:
  - -password <current_user_password>: Use the specified password instead of prompting user

Installing Additional Packages

FLARE VM uses both the Chocolatey public and custom Mandiant package repositories making it easy to install additional packages. For example, enter the command below as an Administrator to install x64dbg on your system:

cinst x64dbg

Staying up to Date

Type the following command to update all of the packages to the most recent version:

cup all

Malware Analysis with FLARE VM

For an example malware analysis session using FLARE VM, please see the blog at https://www.mandiant.com/resources/flare-vm-the-windows-malware.

The installation instructions referenced in the above blog post are outdated. For installation instructions, follow the steps outlined in the blog https://www.mandiant.com/resources/flare-vm-update.

Installed Tools

Android

dex2jar
apktool

Debuggers

flare-qdb
scdbg
OllyDbg + OllyDump + OllyDumpEx
OllyDbg2 + OllyDumpEx
x64dbg
WinDbg + OllyDumpex + pykd

Decompilers

RetDec

Delphi

Interactive Delphi Reconstructor (IDR)

Developer Tools

VC Build Tools
NASM

Disassemblers

Ghidra
IDA Free (5.0 & 7.0)
Binary Ninja Demo
radare2
Cutter

.NET

de4dot
Dot Net String Decoder (DNSD)
dnSpy
DotPeek
ILSpy
RunDotNetDll

AutoIt

AutoItExtractor
UnAutoIt
Exe2Aut

Flash

FFDec

Forensic

Volatility
Autopsy

Hex Editors

FileInsight
HxD
010 Editor

Java

JD-GUI
Bytecode-Viewer
Java-Deobfuscator

JavaScript

malware-jail

Networking

FakeNet-NG
ncat
nmap
Wireshark

Office

Offvis
OfficeMalScanner
oledump.py
rtfdump.py
msoffcrypto-crack.py

PDF

PDFiD
PDFParser
PDFStreamDumper

PE

PEiD
ExplorerSuite (CFF Explorer)
PEview
DIE
PeStudio
PEBear
ResourceHacker
LordPE
PPEE(puppy)

Pentest

Windows binaries from Kali Linux

Powershell

PSDecode

Text Editors

SublimeText3
Notepad++
Vim

Visual Basic

VBDecompiler

Web Application

BurpSuite Free Edition
HTTrack

Utilities

FLOSS
HashCalc
HashMyFiles
Checksum
7-Zip
Far Manager
Putty
Wget
RawCap
UPX
RegShot
Process Hacker
Sysinternals Suite
API Monitor
SpyStudio
Shellcode Launcher
Cygwin
Unxutils
Malcode Analyst Pack (MAP)
XORSearch
XORStrings
Yara
CyberChef
KernelModeDriverLoader
Process Dump
Innounp
InnoExtract
UniExtract2
Hollows-Hunter
PE-sieve
ImpRec
ProcDot

Python, Modules, Tools

Py2ExeDecompiler
pyinstxtractor
Python 2.7
- hexdump
- pefile
- winappdbg
- pycryptodome
- vivisect
- binwalk
- capstone-windows
- unicorn
- oletools
- olefile
- unpy2exe
- uncompyle6
- pycrypto
- pyftpdlib
- pyasn1
- pyOpenSSL
- ldapdomaindump
- pyreadline
- flask
- networkx
- requests
- msoffcrypto-tool
- yara-python
- mkyara
Python 3.7
- binwalk
- unpy2exe
- uncompyle6
- StringSifter
- hexdump
- pycryptodome
- oletools
- olefile
- msoffcrypto-tool
- pyftpdlib
- pyasn1
- pyOpenSSL
- acefile
- requests
- yara-python
- mkyara

Other

VC Redistributable Modules (2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017)
.NET Framework versions 4.8
Practical Malware Analysis Labs
Google Chrome
Cmder

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provides a convenient interface for them to obtain a useful set of analysis
tools directly from their original sources. Installation and use of this script
is subject to the Apache 2.0 License.

You as a user of this script must review, accept and comply with the license
terms of each downloaded/installed package listed below. By proceeding with the
installation, you are accepting the license terms of each package, and
acknowledging that your use of each package will be subject to its respective
license terms.

List of package licenses:

http://exeinfo.atwebpages.com
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=251960
http://jd.benow.ca/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/cc300389.aspx
http://ntinfo.biz
https://www.sublimetext.com
http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
http://progress-tools.x10.mx/dnsd.html
http://sandsprite.com/CodeStuff/scdbg_manual/MANUAL_EN.html
http://sandsprite.com/iDef/MAP/
http://sandsprite.com/iDef/SysAnalyzer/
http://sandsprite.com/tools.php?id=17
http://svn.code.sf.net/p/processhacker/code/2.x/trunk/LICENSE.txt
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb469936
http://upx.sourceforge.net/upx-license.html
http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/uganda.html
http://whiteboard.nektra.com/spystudio/spystudio_license
http://wjradburn.com/software/
http://www.7-zip.org/license.txt
http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/licence.html
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
http://www.novirusthanks.org/products/kernel-mode-driver-loader/
http://www.ntcore.com/exsuite.php
http://wjradburn.com/software/
http://www.ollydbg.de/download.htm
http://www.ollydbg.de/version2.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/terms/license/index.html
http://www.radare.org/r/license.html
http://www.rohitab.com/apimonitor
http://www.slavasoft.com/hashcalc/license-agreement.htm
http://www.techworld.com/download/portable-applications/microsoft-offvis-11-3214034/
https://blog.didierstevens.com/programs/pdf-tools/
https://blog.didierstevens.com/programs/xorsearch/
https://bytecodeviewer.com/
https://cdn.rawgit.com/iggi131/packages/master/RawCap/license.txt
https://docs.binary.ninja/about/license/#demo-license
https://docs.binary.ninja/about/license/index.html#demo-license
https://github.com/0xd4d/de4dot/blob/master/LICENSE.de4dot.txt
https://github.com/0xd4d/dnSpy
https://github.com/0xd4d/dnSpy/blob/master/dnSpy/dnSpy/LicenseInfo/GPLv3.txt
https://github.com/FarGroup/FarManager/blob/master/LICENSE
https://github.com/clinicallyinane/shellcode_launcher/
https://github.com/enkomio/RunDotNetDll/blob/master/LICENSE.TXT
https://github.com/fireeye/flare-fakenet-ng
https://github.com/fireeye/flare-floss
https://github.com/fireeye/flare-qdb
https://github.com/fireeye/flare-vm
https://github.com/icsharpcode/ILSpy/blob/master/README.txt
https://github.com/icsharpcode/ILSpy/blob/master/doc/license.txt
https://github.com/java-decompiler/jd-gui/blob/master/LICENSE
https://github.com/mikesiko/PracticalMalwareAnalysis-Labs
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/master/LICENSE
https://github.com/radareorg/cutter
https://github.com/x64dbg/x64dbg/blob/development/LICENSE
https://github.com/x64dbg/x64dbgpy/blob/v25/LICENSE
https://hshrzd.wordpress.com/pe-bear/
https://github.com/hasherezade/hollows_hunter/blob/master/LICENSE
https://github.com/hasherezade/pe-sieve/blob/master/LICENSE
https://metasploit.com/
https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/license.php
https://nmap.org/ncat/
https://portswigger.net/burp
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/IntelliTect/Licenses/master/WindowsManagementFramework.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chocolatey/choco/master/LICENSE
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ferventcoder/checksum/master/LICENSE
https://retdec.com/
https://svn.nmap.org/nmap/COPYING
https://www.7-zip.org/
https://www.free-decompiler.com/flash/license/
https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/support/download_freeware.shtml
https://www.jetbrains.com/decompiler/download/license.html
https://www.kali.org/about-us/
https://www.mcafee.com/hk/downloads/free-tools/fileinsight.aspx
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44266
https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/hash_my_files.html
https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html
https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7/license
https://docs.python.org/3/license.html
https://www.sweetscape.com/010editor/manual/License.htm
https://www.vb-decompiler.org/license.htm
http://kpnc.org/idr32/en/
https://www.vim.org/about.php
https://www.winitor.com
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/master/LICENSE
https://www.mzrst.com/
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dscharrer/innoextract/master/LICENSE
http://innounp.sourceforge.net/
https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/support/legal/mt644918
http://repo.or.cz/w/nasm.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/LICENSE
https://blog.didierstevens.com/programs/oledump-py/
https://lessmsi.activescott.com/
https://cert.at/downloads/software/bytehist_en.html
https://github.com/ReFirmLabs/binwalk
https://github.com/fireeye/SilkETW
https://github.com/fireeye/stringsifter
https://github.com/sleuthkit/autopsy
http://www.httrack.com/page/1/en/index.html
https://github.com/java-deobfuscator/deobfuscator
https://github.com/HynekPetrak/malware-jail
https://blog.didierstevens.com/2018/12/31/new-tool-msoffcrypto-crack-py/
https://www.procdot.com
https://github.com/R3MRUM/PSDecode
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pyinstallerextractor/
https://blog.didierstevens.com/2018/12/10/update-rtfdump-py-version-0-0-9/
https://gitlab.com/x0r19x91/autoit-extractor/-/blob/master/LICENSE
https://github.com/fireeye/capa

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Installation

Requirements

Windows 10 Installation

Pre-installation Steps

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Post-installation Steps

Windows 7 x64 Installation

Pre-Installations Steps

Installation Steps

Post-installation Steps

Customized Package Selection

Installing Additional Packages

Staying up to Date

Malware Analysis with FLARE VM

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