Credit where credit is due….The bulk of this article was obtained from the excellent article located here: http://www.xors.me/?p=4458
I found the original article and then modified it to fit my operating system and environment. It has been modified to work with Backtrack Linux installation using native virtualbox-4.1 installation
Background
To provide some background, Cuckoo Sandbox performs automated malware analysis using system virtualization technologies. At a high level, Cuckoo executes Python scripts, which then spawn a VirtualBox Virtual Machines (VM) environment running a Guest OS (ie. Windows XP), to execute and analyze malware code in a controlled environment. Once the Guest OS launches, VirtualBox uses local shares to access Python scripts located on the Host OS (ie. Ubuntu/Backtrack). Python therefore needs to be installed on both the Guest and Host OS environments for this product to work. Within the Guest OS, youwill also need vulnerable applications to help analyze code, by forcing malware binary or malicious URLs execution. As the installation documentation provided with Cuckoo Sandbox is missing a few requirements, this post will show a user how to perform a functional install of Cuckoo Sandbox.
A link to the original video is below in avi format.
cuckoo sandbox working under a normal user account