Safely Configure Vmware for malwareanalysis?

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nclr11111

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Need to know if there´s any "tweaks" to improve my VmWare machine more before trying a couple of viruses and see how the AV´s perform?

What i´m most interested in is if there´s ANY chance for an actual infection to spread via the network from this VmWare Machine and if i should change from "administrator" to "user" before proceeding??

Also, what viruses would you suggest i´d start with? Not interesed in startting with Sasser or similar but it needs to be known. No 0-day to start with please....! :)
 

jamescv7

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To avoid any problems on dealing for Virtual Machine, you need to turn off any network bridge, file sharing and printer sharing.

Some viruses may detected itself for not running well due to virtual environment.
 

MrXidus

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Isolate the testing machine from your network if you're paranoid but I haven't done such with my own virtual machine, In the network settings of your virtual machine software you need to make sure it's set to NAT and not Bridged.

Some even have Shadow Defender active on their host system before testing malware in their virtual machines. To each his own with the "better safe then sorry" quote.

As for which malware to test I can't recommend which exactly, You can take a look at our Malware Hub and see if you find anything interesting, a rogue antivirus is simple enough.

Just take caution with what you're doing. Enjoy! ;)
 

McLovin

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I have to agree with what MrXidus said. I have and make sure before I do every VM testing I do a backup with RollbackRX so if there is that slight chance of it jumping ship I'm safe. Also if you were going to be doing testing and your worried about it jumping shop, do it on a separate machine all together.
 
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