# cuckoosandbox/cuckoo

Cuckoo Sandbox is an automated dynamic malware analysis system

Repository: https://github.com/cuckoosandbox/cuckoo
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/cuckoo
Homepage: http://www.cuckoosandbox.org
Language: JavaScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Archived: true
Last push: 2022-05-03T16:17:48+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5474, "days_push": 1583, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5964, forks 1723 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:33.790984+00:00)

## What it is
Cuckoo Sandbox is an open-source automated dynamic malware analysis system that executes suspicious files in an isolated environment and reports on their behavior. The 2.x codebase is officially unmaintained while a full rewrite is underway.

## Use cases
- analyze suspicious files in a sandbox
- automated malware behavior analysis
- detonate malware samples safely
- generate behavioral reports for malware
- reverse engineer unknown binaries
- build a threat intelligence pipeline

## When to choose
- you need to observe what an unknown file does when executed
- you want a self-hosted malware analysis lab
- you need automated behavioral reports from suspicious samples

## When to avoid
- you need maintained software with active support - 2.x is unmaintained
- you want a production-ready system without self-managing forks
- you only need static analysis rather than dynamic execution

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: security, workflow-automation, monitoring
- domain: security, reverse-engineering
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: malware-analysis, sandbox, dynamic-analysis, behavioral-analysis, threat-intelligence, linux

## Member repositories
- cuckoosandbox/cuckoo (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:33.790984+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:50:10.656667+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/cuckoosandbox/cuckoo (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:33.790984+00:00, sha 2816f70ae2e1)
  - homepage: http://www.cuckoosandbox.org (fetched 2026-08-29T08:46:18.410656+00:00, sha 871aa3d0244d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.