TweetCode 15 Report post Posted October 5, 2011 Introduction : What is Sandboxie? Sandboxie is very useful to check whether or not a program is infected, you can also use it to test out your botnet. Sandboxie runs your programs in an isolated space which prevents them from making permanent changes to other programs and data in your computer. Observe the animation below. Animation Why is Sandboxie better then Anti-Virus programs? Anti-Virus programs, although useful, are not always accurate. As you may have noticed on some forums, there are programs called crypters which scramble the virus' code in order to hide itself from being detected by Anti-Virus programs. There are also False Positives which are files that are seen as being infected by Anti-Virus programs, when in reality they are clean. With Sandboxie you can check the activities of the file and make the decision whether or not it's infected yourself. Although Anti-Virus programs are very very useful, and I recommend you have at least one turned on at all times, for the sake of deciding whether or not a single file is infected, Sandboxie is better. Tutorial : 1. Download http://www.sandboxie.com/index.php?DownloadSandboxie (Proceed through the installation) 2. Using Sandboxie Open Sandboxie : Start > All Programs > Sandboxie > Sandboxie Control Picture Run File : Right-Click Suspected File > Run SandboxedPicture Change Display : View > Files and FoldersPicture Observe Folders : Sandbox DefaultBox > All files and FoldersPicture 3. Analysing Output Now that you've ran your program you're probably wondering What does this all this mean? Now is when you analyze Sandboxie to check if the program has dropped any files. In the All files and Folder sub-menu you can observe the exact location of dropped files. How do I know if my program's infected? To decide whether or not a program is infected you have to think. Should this program drop files? For example : I've downloaded a crypter and decided to check it out in Sandboxie. Now immediately after I run it, I get a file dropped : Picture Ignore the Desktop.ini and such files below. Focus on the rest. My crypter has just dropped a file. I know now that it is infected. Settings : To prevent against stealers acquiring your firefox passwords while using Sandboxie go to : Sandbox>Default Box>Sandbox settings> Resource Access>File Access>Blocked Access>Edit/Add and copy paste the following lines : (one by one) %Local AppData%\Mozilla\ %AppData%\Mozilla\ \Device\Mup\ You can also disable the program from accessing the internet, this option is also found in Sandbox settings. NEW! To bypass the Anti-Sandboxie that some malware uses, you need to disable the Sandboxie indicator that is in the titles of windows running in Sandboxie "#". To do this go to Sandboxie>Rick-click on your sandbox>Sandbox Settings>Appearance>check "Don't show Sandboxie indicator...". (This method of detecting sandboxie isn't used by all malware however.) Extra Info. (Click to Hide) Keep in mind that if you receive an error, and your program is unable to run in Sandboxie, it is most likely that it's a virus and has implemented Anti-Sandboxie. DO NOT RUN IT OUTSIDE SANDBOXIE! (see 'Settings' spoiler to know how to bypass anti-sandboxie) Once you are done with Sandboxie, Right-Click on the Sandbox and chose Terminate Programs. Also, remember to empty your SandBox after every use by Right-clicking>Delete Contents. When you see [#] [#] around the title on the window, you know it's Sandboxed. Unless you have these indicators disabled (see 'Settings'). 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
daytrader 203 Report post Posted October 8, 2011 nice tool and can be useful for peeps who dl lotsa stuff.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bluto 0 Report post Posted October 9, 2011 thanks my friend for the tutorial Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
central 0 Report post Posted November 14, 2011 Really useful app, and a fantastic tut, cheers mate. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
xNathan 0 Report post Posted December 15, 2011 I use this program. It's very good at what it's designed to do. However, I did move on to using Anubis instead. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TweetCode 15 Report post Posted December 20, 2011 I use this program.It's very good at what it's designed to do. However, I did move on to using Anubis instead. What is an Anubis? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
barricas 0 Report post Posted December 26, 2011 Copy and Paste from Hack Forums. Except the part where it says "by Wind" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
djiemat 0 Report post Posted July 7, 2012 nice.. very useful apps.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites