Installation of libemu and pylibemu on Ubuntu/Debian

Posted: May 16th, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: IT Related | Tags: , , , | 5 Comments »

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
  • Obtaining libemu via 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

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
  • Obtaining pylibemu via 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

Yerp.. you are good to go.

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