Hello and welcome.
In this lecture, I am going to tell you about how to set up your computer for doing reverse
engineering.
Always use a virtual machine.
For example, I'm using Oracle VirtualBox and inside here I created a Windows 10 virtual machine.
So if you don't know how to create a virtual machine, you can Google for it.
There are plenty of YouTube videos which will guide you.
So after you created a virtual machine, the first step is always to create snapshots like this.
So just click on "Take" here and then give a name to the snapshot and click "OK."
So after you have created the snapshot, then you are ready to start reverse engineering.
Every time you do some reverse engineering, when you finished, you always go back and restore the snapshot.
So you will clickâ€”
You click on any of these restore points here and then click "Restore." For example, this or whatever
you want, and you click on "Restore."
So the restore will undo any changes that have been made by any of the programs that you have run while
reversing.
So after you have done that, the next thing you want to do is to go and install x64dbg.
So x64dbg you can go and download.
So I'm now going to go into full screen and I'm going to open a browser.
And then here I search for "download x64dbg."
They are popularly known as x64dbg, although it can also run 32-bit programs.
So that's the one. Click on "Download."
Then you go and download whatever is the latest version.
So as of today, the latest version is 2022,
October 28th.
So I'm going to click on this.
And now it has begun, as you can see on the bottom left-hand corner.
Once it has finished downloading,
click on "Show in folder" and then unzip it.
Once it has finished downloading, you can see it in the Downloads folder, so you can unzip it now
and then rename it to "x64dbg."
Inside it, you will see there are a few folders.
So now you are going to cut this x64dbg and put it in your C Program Files directory, which is over here: C Program Files.
You can put it in x86 or you can put it in Program Files.
It doesn't matter.
Anyone will do.
So you're going to dump it here.
Right-click and paste.
OK.
Continue.
And you have it there.
So now we are going to install it.
So open this folder and look for "Release" and look for "x96dbg."
So x96dbg is the installer.
So just double-click on it.
"Do you want to register a static shell extension?"
Click on "Yes."
"Do you want to create desktop shortcuts?"
Click on "Yes."
"Do you want to register the database icon?"
Click on "Yes."
Now click on "OK."
And now if you go to the desktop, close this.
You should be able to see two new icons: x32dbg and x64dbg.
You are now ready to use it.