ReverseLogic-Lab Foundation Phase

Summary

This release marks the completion of the ReverseLogic-Lab foundation phase.

The project includes 10 educational reverse engineering labs focused on analyzing small Windows executables with C, Ghidra, x64dbg, Windows API usage, runtime tests, screenshots, and written analysis reports.

Completed Labs

• Lab 01 - Simple Password Check
• Lab 02 - XOR Encoded String
• Lab 03 - Stack Strings
• Lab 04 - Anti-Debugging Check
• Lab 05 - Windows API Behavior
• Lab 06 - Command-Line Password
• Lab 07 - License Key Pattern
• Lab 08 - Switch Case Control Flow
• Lab 09 - Checksum Validation
• Lab 10 - Encoded API Message

Covered Concepts

• string comparison analysis
• XOR encoded strings
• runtime decoding
• stack strings
• command-line argument validation
• license key pattern checks
• switch-case control flow
• checksum validation
• Windows API imports
• anti-debugging basics
• Ghidra static analysis
• selected x64dbg runtime verification

Documentation

This release also includes project-level documentation:

• README.md
• docs/lab-index.md
• docs/methodology.md
• docs/tooling-notes.md
• docs/week-1-security-recap.md

Notes

This project is educational and portfolio-focused. It does not target real commercial software and does not include illegal cracking activity.