Installation of libemu and pylibemu on Ubuntu/Debian

libemu is a small library written in C offering basic x86 emulation and shellcode detection using GetPC heuristics. It is designed to be used within network intrusion/prevention detections and honeypots. [1]

Here are some useful information that might help you to build and compile libemu on Ubuntu machine:

• Install some dependencies for the building process

sudo apt-get install build-essential git-core autoconf libtool python-dev

sudo apt-get install build-essential git-core autoconf libtool python-dev

• Obtaining libemu via Git

cd /tmp/ git clone git://git.carnivore.it/libemu.git

cd /tmp/ git clone git://git.carnivore.it/libemu.git

• Configure and install

cd /tmp/libemu/ autoreconf -v -i ./configure --enable-python-bindings --prefix=/opt/libemu sudo make install sudo ldconfig -n /opt/libemu/lib

cd /tmp/libemu/ autoreconf -v -i ./configure --enable-python-bindings --prefix=/opt/libemu sudo make install sudo ldconfig -n /opt/libemu/lib

Now install the pylibemu, the python wrapper for the Libemu library

• Install some dependencies for the building process

sudo apt-get install python-dev python-setuptools

sudo apt-get install python-dev python-setuptools

• Obtaining pylibemu via Git

cd /tmp/ git clone https://github.com/buffer/pylibemu.git

cd /tmp/ git clone https://github.com/buffer/pylibemu.git

• Build and install

cd /tmp/pylibemu/ sudo sh -c "echo /opt/libemu/lib > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/pylibemu.conf" python setup.py build sudo python setup.py install

cd /tmp/pylibemu/ sudo sh -c "echo /opt/libemu/lib > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/pylibemu.conf" python setup.py build sudo python setup.py install

Yerp.. you are good to go.

Reference:
[1] http://libemu.carnivore.it