Cannot find fakenet

[antman1p]

After running the flarevm ps1 installation script, fakenet is nowhere to be found. I tried insatllaing it with pip and after install it gives a syntax error.

[MalwareMechanic]

@antman1p Can you try running the following command and let me know if it installs fakenet: py -2 -m pip install https://github.com/fireeye/flare-fakenet-ng/archive/master.zip

[antman1p]

I was able to do it from here: pip install https://github.com/fireeye/flare-fakenet-ng/zipball/master
However, It appears that the flareVM uses python3 and this fakenet seems to have been written in python 2.7.

[strictlymike]

Was this syntax error the one that you fixed in mandiant/flare-fakenet-ng#114? If it isn't, I'd be curious to know what the syntax error was, if you can produce more details readily.

If that pull request was strictly for Python3 compliance, heads-up, we haven't gone through to make FakeNet-NG compatible with Python3 yet, but I suspect this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to making it run under Python3. Not that I expect it to be too onerous, but I do expect a multitude of minor items to arise when we begin that task.

[MalwareMechanic]

@antman1p FLARE VM uses Python3 as the default Python version. You'll need to install fakenet using py -2 -m pip in order to install it using Python2 as pip will default to Python3. Can you confirm it installs correctly using py -2 -m pip install https://github.com/fireeye/flare-fakenet-ng/archive/master.zip?

You can also attempt to install it via Chocolatey by opening an admin PowerShell prompt and running: choco install fakenet-ng.python.flare

[MalwareMechanic]

@antman1p are you still having an issue with fakenet?

[antman1p]

My apologies, I had moved on to another project. I will check on Monday.

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