The environment setup in reverse engineering is crucial to the result. We need a sandbox environment where we can dissect and play with the file, without worrying that we may break something. And since the most popular operating systems are Microsoft Windows and Linux, let's discuss using these operating systems in a virtual environment.
Analysis environments
Virtual machines
From the first chapter, we introduced using VirtualBox as our desktop virtualization system. The reason we chose VirtualBox was because of it being freeware. But besides VirtualBox, choosing the right sandboxing software depends on user preferences and requirements. There are pros and cons for every piece of sandboxing software, so it is worth...
