PeekabooAV

Peekaboo Extended Email Attachment Behavior Observation Owl

PeekabooAV is an Anti Virus software
It gets email attachments from AMaViSd, checks them, uses Cuckoo for behavioral checks, and evaluates and rates fully automatic
PeekabooAV is written in Python, multi-threaded, scalable, has a very powerful ruleset, and is easy to extend and personalize
It is able to detect: malware by its behavior, exploitation of zero days, and targeted attacks
We develop and work in Germany
PeekabooAV is entirely open source
can run 100% local and does not require any external service
any file with any application can be scanned

If you run mail on-site, distrust security vendors and need a high level of security and secrecy PeekabooAV is for you.

For news and announcements follow us on twitter @peekabooAV and Fosstodon @peekabooav@fosstodon.org.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

Python (3.6+ required)
Cuckoo 2.0
AMaViSd 2.11.0
Installer is available: PeekabooAV-Installer

Installation

Install from PyPI into a new virtual environment:

virtualenv --python=python3 /path/to/venv
/path/to/venv/bin/pip install peekabooav

Or use this repository:

git clone https://github.com/scVENUS/PeekabooAV.git
virtualenv --python=python3 /path/to/venv
/path/to/venv/bin/pip install .

This will pull in all required packages and install them into the virtualenv.

Configuration

Take a look at peekaboo.conf.sample and ruleset.conf.sample.

Running the tests

Runs the unit tests

/path/to/venv/bin/python tests/test.py

Usage

Now, you can run PeekabooAV with

/path/to/venv/bin/peekaboo -c /path/to/your/peekaboo.conf

Note: If you put your PeekabooAV configuration file at /opt/peekaboo/etc/peekaboo.conf you can omit the -c option. Also, for detailed command line options run

peekaboo --help

Development Quickstart

Just install Peekaboo using pip like above but in editable/development mode:

/path/to/venv/bin/pip install -e .

Now you can run it as before but changes to the source code will take effect without reinstallation. See the development documentation for details.

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.

Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

Past and present Developers and Contributors

Felix Bauer - Security Analyst and Project Leader - @Jack28
Michael Weiser - Developer - @michaelweiser
Sebastian Deiss - Former Technical Lead - @SebastianDeiss

License

This project is licensed under the GPL 3 license - see the LICENSE.txt file for details.

scVENUS / PeekabooAV

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