Posts tagged cracking

Reversing - SabloomText_v6

:: cracking, reverse engineering

Today we look at another crackme, SabloomText_v6!

The difficulty is rated at level 4.8 of 6 - I think perhaps it was more like a 4.

I am not going to say anything about it in this section as it would spoil a cool surprise if you want to try it yourself!

Here is the link if you want to try it Sabloom Text 6

Tools used today are x64dbg, PEStudio, F# and C++

Reversing - Bakunawa

:: cracking, reverse engineering

In this post we’ll look at another crackme, Bakunawa!

This one was listed as level 5 (Very Hard) and certainly was not without its difficulties!

Featuring a sort-of virtual machine executing real x86 instructions encoded into an odd binary file as a point of obsfucation, this took me quite a long time to figure out. I built some tools in the process and finally a Keygen program once the algorithm was identified and reversed.

Major spoilers follow, here’s the link if you want to have a go yourself!

Tools used today are x64dbg, PEStudio, IDA Pro, F# and C++

Reversing - lcm6.exe

:: cracking, reverse engineering

As an entertaining start to the new year, this post will cover the basics of reverse engineering a program and breaking its password protection. Of course, I do not advocate software piracy in any way, and the program in question is called a crackme which is a program designed to broken, with various measures to make it harder for you. They come in different levels of difficulty, the one under the microsope today is a relatively easy one - however, breaking even the simplest program requires a fairly deep understanding of computers, and the process might be quite interesting if you don’t know how it’s done. Let’s have a look at it: