From Packed Binary to Readable Code: A Hands-On Walkthrough of Unpacking, Shellcode Analysis, and Memory Forensics

A few weeks ago I spent a full lab session doing something that sounds simple on paper and is genuinely satisfying in practice: taking a packed, obfuscated piece of malware and peeling back every layer until I could see what it actually does. This post is my write-up of that session. It's long, beca