Syed Babar Hasnain Ali NaqviI'm a third-year BSc Cybersecurity student at COMSATS University. Reverse engineering matters to me because it turns the moment a team is most afraid — "unknown file, no idea what it does" — into something actionable. Not a guess. A description: here's what it does, here's what to do about it.
I got into RE in second year when I had to analyze a ransomware sample for a security lab. Static analysis caught the persistence mechanism, but I was stuck on the encryption routine. That's when I learned the discipline: you don't guess. You read the assembly, you trace the logic, you build the model. Once you have the model, the findings write themselves.
Tools I use: Ghidra (primary disassembler), IDA Free (comparative analysis), Binary Ninja (complex samples), Python (static analysis automation), Wireshark (network traffic analysis), and the usual command-line utilities (strings, objdump, file). I use AI for mass extraction and source-checking; I keep the judgment for myself. That means I don't submit AI output I can't explain.
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