malboxes doesn't work on Python 3.4.2 (Python on Debian Jessie)

[k0l0ss]

Hello,

I am meeting a problem when trying to launch:$ malboxes build win10_64_analyst
The malboxes help will show, nothing will execute, or configure. (tried all type of profiles..)
My debian host reports 1 (as command failed).
1 host@user ~ $

Installed pip3, vagrant and packer. All of them on path.

When installed malboxes:
0 k0ss@kolossus ~/Downloads/malboxes-master $ sudo pip3 install git+https://github.com/GoSecure/malboxes.git#egg=malboxes
Downloading/unpacking malboxes from git+https://github.com/GoSecure/malboxes.git
Cloning https://github.com/GoSecure/malboxes.git to /tmp/pip-build-9nc56gi2/malboxes
Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip-build-9nc56gi2/malboxes/setup.py) egg_info for package malboxes

warning: no files found matching 'config-example.js'
no previously-included directories found matching 'docs/presentation/'

Downloading/unpacking appdirs (from malboxes)
Downloading appdirs-1.4.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): Jinja2 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from malboxes)
Downloading/unpacking jsmin (from malboxes)
Downloading jsmin-2.2.2.tar.gz
Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip-build-9nc56gi2/jsmin/setup.py) egg_info for package jsmin

Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): markupsafe in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from Jinja2->malboxes)
Installing collected packages: malboxes, appdirs, jsmin
Running setup.py install for malboxes

warning: no files found matching 'config-example.js'
no previously-included directories found matching 'docs/presentation/'
Installing malboxes script to /usr/local/bin

Running setup.py install for jsmin
Fixing build/lib/jsmin/test.py build/lib/jsmin/main.py build/lib/jsmin/init.py
Skipping implicit fixer: buffer
Skipping implicit fixer: idioms
Skipping implicit fixer: set_literal
Skipping implicit fixer: ws_comma
Fixing build/lib/jsmin/test.py build/lib/jsmin/main.py build/lib/jsmin/init.py
Skipping implicit fixer: buffer
Skipping implicit fixer: idioms
Skipping implicit fixer: set_literal
Skipping implicit fixer: ws_comma

Successfully installed malboxes appdirs jsmin
Cleaning up...

$uname -a
3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.43-2+deb8u2 (2017-06-26) x86_64 GNU/Linux
"Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)"

Would appreciate some help.

Thanks in advance

[Svieg]

Some things I would try:
1 - Reinstalling (I just did and it worked for me) with pip uninstall before.
2 - Check if you have the config-example.js in malboxes/malboxes.
3 - Run malboxes with -d to see debug output (I doubt that will help if you only get the help menu but let's try it).
4 - Copy-paste all the output you see (including the help menu with the command you did).

Thanks for your feedback!

[k0l0ss]

1- So, Tried reinstalling actually same thing happened...
during the installation seems it cannot find config-example.js:

sudo pip3 install git+https://github.com/GoSecure/malboxes.git#egg=malboxes
Downloading/unpacking malboxes from git+https://github.com/GoSecure/malboxes.git
  Cloning https://github.com/GoSecure/malboxes.git to /tmp/pip-build-zs93gsxw/malboxes
  Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip-build-zs93gsxw/malboxes/setup.py) egg_info for package malboxes
    
    warning: no files found matching 'config-example.js'
    no previously-included directories found matching 'docs/presentation/'
Downloading/unpacking appdirs (from malboxes)
  Downloading appdirs-1.4.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): Jinja2 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from malboxes)
Downloading/unpacking jsmin (from malboxes)
  Downloading jsmin-2.2.2.tar.gz
  Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip-build-zs93gsxw/jsmin/setup.py) egg_info for package jsmin
    
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): markupsafe in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from Jinja2->malboxes)
Installing collected packages: malboxes, appdirs, jsmin
  Running setup.py install for malboxes
    
    warning: no files found matching 'config-example.js'
    no previously-included directories found matching 'docs/presentation/'
    Installing malboxes script to /usr/local/bin
  Running setup.py install for jsmin
    Fixing build/lib/jsmin/test.py build/lib/jsmin/__main__.py build/lib/jsmin/__init__.py
    Skipping implicit fixer: buffer
    Skipping implicit fixer: idioms
    Skipping implicit fixer: set_literal
    Skipping implicit fixer: ws_comma
    Fixing build/lib/jsmin/test.py build/lib/jsmin/__main__.py build/lib/jsmin/__init__.py
    Skipping implicit fixer: buffer
    Skipping implicit fixer: idioms
    Skipping implicit fixer: set_literal
    Skipping implicit fixer: ws_comma
    
Successfully installed malboxes appdirs jsmin
Cleaning up...

2- I did not find any folder malboxes/malboxes

find / -name malboxes
/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/malboxes
/usr/local/bin/malboxes
/root/.cache/malboxes
/root/.config/malboxes
/home/k0ss/.cache/malboxes
/home/k0ss/.config/malboxes

3- Running malboxes with -d results in providing help:

k0ss@kolossus ~/packer $ malboxes -d
usage: malboxes [-h] [-V] [-d]
                {list,build,spin,registry,directory,package,document} ...

Vagrant box builder and config generator for malware analysis.

positional arguments:
  {list,build,spin,registry,directory,package,document}
    list                Lists available profiles.
    build               Builds a Vagrant box based on a given profile.
    spin                Creates a Vagrantfile for your profile / Vagrant box.
    registry            Modifies a registry key.
    directory           Modifies a directory.
    package             Adds package to install.
    document            Adds a file

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -V, --version         show program's version number and exit
  -d, --debug           Debug mode. Leaves built VMs running on failure!


supported profiles:

win10_32_analyst
win10_64_analyst
win7_32_analyst
win7_64_analyst

1 k0ss@kolossus ~/packer $ 

4- That's all the output I can get...

Thank you for helping

[Svieg]

1. Sorry for the malboxes/malboxes directory I was mistaken because I use the git repo. The config-example.js should be in /usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/malboxes then. Can you show us what is inside that folder?

2. I just reproduced in a Ubuntu VM with pip3 9.0.1 and python 3.5 and it worked. Maybe you could try with those (except Debian in your case).

3. Another option would be to git clone the repo and run python3 setup.py install in the malboxes root directory (malboxes/).

[obilodeau]

Created a Debian jessie VM. pip3 is different on that system:

$ pip3 --version
pip 1.5.6 from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (python 3.4)

This version was tagged on May 16, 2014 according to pip's git history...

Even though there is a warning during installation the config-example.json is present:

$ sudo updatedb
$ locate config-example.js
/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/malboxes/config-example.js

So these are just warnings, malboxes should still work.

However, there is a different problem with argparse it seems. It doesn't recognize the subparser default function and always uses the top-level parser' default function.

I just spend an hour on this and still don't have a solution...

vagrant@jessie:~$ python3 --version
Python 3.4.2

On my machine it works fine:

$ python3 --version
Python 3.6.1

[obilodeau]

Found upstream bug: https://bugs.python.org/issue9351

The bug was fixed in 3.4.3 and Debian Jessie is stuck at 3.4.2.

I tried an easy workaround but it didn't work. If you can upgrade your python by installing it from source I would advise you to do so.

[k0l0ss]

Will try as soon as I finish some work T_T

[k0l0ss]

upgraded to python 3.6.2
how to uninstall malboxes in order to clean install?

[Svieg]

pip3 uninstall malboxes works for me

[k0l0ss]

pip3 uninstall malboxes did not work for me (actually did not find it)...
when tried sudo pip3 install git+https://github.com/GoSecure/malboxes.git#egg=malboxes met that all requirements already satisfied and install would not continue.
Instead of that I deleted every file containing malboxes, then I did:
git clone https://github.com/GoSecure/malboxes.git and sudo python3.6 setup.py install...as svieg suggested up there.
Now I just have typed malboxes build win10_64_analyst and started the config and downloading.

Definedly seems to be a problem with python 3.4.2 as obilodeau suggested and upgrading to 3.6 fixed it.

Thank you very much for your help guys.

I'll keep in touch!

[Svieg]

It's strange that the pip3 uninstall malboxes didn't work. Glad that it seems working now!