We've come a long way with our recent 2.0.4 release and will soon find ourselves with the long awaited 2.1.0 release featuring a completely new and rewritten version of zer0m0n, our Windows kernel driver.

In the meanwhile we've worked on support for malicious documents abusing Office DDE (Office Dynamic Data Exchange) and are doing a quick 2.0.5 release so our users may benefit to the fullest from these recent developments.

Since our 2.0.0 release in March earlier this year we've been busy shaping the new Cuckoo Package style of releases and further improving a number of features in Cuckoo. Since 2.0.0 we've somewhat quietly released a couple of minor versions to fix dozens of bugs.

Today represents a big day for Cuckoo Sandbox (the leading open source automated malware analysis sandbox). After a years worth of work we're finally releasing a first version of the Cuckoo Package (codename "package"). As with most of our releases this version introduces many improvements, new concepts, stability tweaks, and so much more that we won't be able to go into every detail in this post.

The Cuckoo Package shapes a new future when it comes to deployment, maintenance, user interaction & experience, and the development cycle of Cuckoo Sandbox itself. It's our biggest improvement on usability & UX so far ...