Modern x64 Windows Exploit Lab and Baseline

Configure an isolated Windows Server 2022-or-later VM with snapshots for repeatable exploit-development labs.

Configure WinDbg with Microsoft symbols, source paths, and executable-image paths for a native x64 target.

Build native x64 desktop test targets with explicit compiler, linker, mitigation, and heap-manifest settings.

Compare the PE security properties of two target builds using linker output and binary-inspection tools.

Capture a reproducible user-mode crash dump from an intentionally vulnerable application.

Map x64 registers, stack state, and calling-convention artifacts from a crash to the corresponding C/C++ code.

Create a lab record that identifies the target build, mitigation settings, symbols, inputs, and expected crash signature.