Flare VM — Windows Malware Analysis

whoami
3 min readSep 19, 2023

This article shows how to install Flare VM, a Windows-based security distribution, which includes a comprehensive collection of Windows security tools such as debuggers, disassemblers, decompilers, static and dynamic analysis utilities, network analysis and many others.

Installation Flare VM over Windows Image

Step 1: We can get multiple Windows version images from this official website. I installed Windows 10 ISO image on my VirtualBox, and let’s wait for 30–40 minutes, we can get a coffee in the meantime.

Windows 10

Step 2: Follow this setup instruction here, taking a snapshot before setting up Falre VM in case some errors happen. We have to wait for the “install.ps1” execution around 2-3 hours to install all needed packages into the machine.

Step 3: The final complete installation indicates the desktop’s wallpaper will be changed to Flare VM image and all…

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