# Rurik/Noriben

Noriben - Portable, Simple, Malware Analysis Sandbox

Repository: https://github.com/Rurik/Noriben
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/noriben
Language: Python
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2026-03-26T15:18:05+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 56/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 74, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4893, "days_push": 160, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1297, forks 227 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:16.561867+00:00)

## What it is
Noriben is a Python script that wraps Sysinternals Procmon to automatically collect, analyze, and report runtime indicators of malware, producing a simple text report of a sample's activities. It can also be used to audit legitimate software behavior and includes an automation frontend for running samples inside a VM.

## Use cases
- analyze malware behavior in a sandbox
- get a text report of what a suspicious executable did
- monitor system changes while manually running malware in a debugger
- audit what a legitimate application does to the system
- automate malware detonation inside a VM and collect reports

## When to choose
- you need a lightweight, portable behavioral analysis tool on Windows
- you want to interactively run malware with custom command lines or user interaction while logging activity
- you need quick IOC extraction without setting up a full sandbox infrastructure

## When to avoid
- you need large-scale automated analysis of thousands of samples
- you require network-based dynamic analysis or memory forensics
- you are not working on Windows since it depends on Sysinternals Procmon

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: stable
- function: security, monitoring, developer-tools
- domain: security, reverse-engineering, windows
- platform: windows, python, cli
- tags: malware-analysis, sandbox, procmon, incident-response, behavioral-analysis

## Member repositories
- Rurik/Noriben (main) score 56

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:16.561867+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 2026-08-30T04:53:51.954535+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Rurik/Noriben (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:16.561867+00:00, sha 95da3b723106)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.