How to install/use FLOSS (FLARE Obfuscated String Solver) in Ubuntu?

Hi,

Need help to install and use FLOSS (FLARE Obfuscated String Solver) in ubuntu.

Instructions are provided in the following github page but I still don’t know how to install it properly.

https://github.com/mandiant/flare-floss https://github.com/mandiant/flare-floss/releases https://github.com/mandiant/flare-floss/releases

I just tried pip install floss and it seems to have installed but command line doesn’t seem to work.

hello@ubuntu: ~
$ pip install floss
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting floss
  Using cached floss-0.0.1-py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: floss
Successfully installed floss-0.0.1
WARNING: You are using pip version 21.0.1; however, version 21.3.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the '/usr/bin/python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.

What is the exact command line that I need to use in ubuntu to install or just use floss?

Also how can I verify floss is working properly once it’s installed?

I’m new to floss and have not much experience with linux and github. I need step by step instructions on how to install and use floss.

Thanks in advance. JL

[Jlclab]

./floss /path/to/file.exe

Finally got it working, this is what I needed step by step instructions. Initially before start of this article, I download/unzipped standalone file in to a different path and was trying to execute floss that’s why wasn’t able to execute the file but just figured it needs to be on the same folder/path and it works fine. Thanks!!

[williballenthin]

wget https://github.com/mandiant/flare-floss/releases/download/v1.7.0/floss-v1.7.0-linux.zip
unzip floss-v1.7.0-linux.zip
./floss /path/to/file.exe