I was just going to add that you can check out pluginboutique.com for some free stuff and some of it - not all of it - is pretty awesome. A favorite of mine is Ample Guitar lite and Ample Bass lite. Source: about 1 year ago

Massive synth - can get you some really heavy basslines as well. Its on sale at pluginboutique.com by itself or as part of the NI Komplete Select package https://www.pluginboutique.com/products/10156-KOMPLETE-14-Select?nosto=frontpage-nosto-1. Komplete Select also comes with Reaktor, Prism and Monarch synths. And pianos/analog instuments. There are also a ton of free presets on the web. For Massive as it's been... Source: over 1 year ago

I've been pretty happy with pluginboutique.com. They usually have a good freebie every month that comes with whatever you buy from them. Last time, I got the Cherry Audio CA2600 synth for free when I bought a cheap $10 plugin. Source: over 1 year ago

There's also hundreds of decent free legal plug-ins to download like at pluginboutique.com or there's plenty of youtube channels that review free plug-ins. It's a real deep rabbit hole. Learn the plug-ins that come with Reaper first. Don't blame the plug-ins if you don't sound good. There's also hundreds of youtube channels out there to help you learn how to mix, beware that some of these are adverts. Source: over 1 year ago

KVRAudio is a good place to look for new plugins both commercial and free. If you're looking for higher end plugins, Plugin Boutique is also good. They also have pay to own plans for certain items so you don't have to pay full-price right away. Source: over 1 year ago

You can detonate it into a VM running an instance of Cuckoo Sandbox. If you want to go the extra mile, you can dump the memory of said VM and analyse it with Volatility Framework. Also, if you want to quickly identify behavioural patterns in executable code, you can use Mandiant's CAPA tool (though idk if it works on .pdfs). Source: about 1 year ago

You should save a copy of the .exe, copy it into a VM running Cuckoo and get a report on exactly what the .exe does. Without this automated dissection, people are making educated guesses. They're probably right, but why not be certain? There is an online version too - https://cuckoosandbox.org. Source: about 1 year ago

You could use a service like cuckoo to check links/files. Source: over 1 year ago

I made my own lab in college using a series of VM's, A windows 10 machine that was packed with analysis tools, a kali listening machine (running inetsim or fakenet, I can't remember.) and I had remnux on another machine (which I ended up not really making use of, but it was there.) I used virtualbox and ran these VM's in an internal network, no internet access. Disabled all clipboard and file sharing after... Source: over 1 year ago

Another option if you want to self-host is https://cuckoosandbox.org/ . Of note, it's currently an unmaintained project so issues may not receive support, but it is free. Source: over 1 year ago