[mothered]

yes I agree it is very good practice to do it in a controlled environment.

Malware Is known to circumvent virtual machines and the like.

It's best to use a dedicated Host physical machine, with a VM Installed (as the Guest) and segregated from the network.

yes, a good point. Is there any tutorials out there to set that type of environment up?

It's simply a stand-alone PC with a VM Installed.