Reverse engineering Academy
+HCU's Project 6
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Reverse engineering "function disabled" protections
Crippled
Indeed a very important project, started on 14 July 1997, that should characterize
the passage from 'blind' cracking to 'clever' reversing... adding functionalities,
re-enabling hidden functionalities... d'you believe there can be something more
challenging for good reverse engineers?
The recent popularity of this
kind of
"function disabled" versions is due to the weakness of all other protection
schemes... password protections are almost dead and time protections (of the
"Cinderella" sort), are doomed... alas! Crippling protections don't seem to work
either! Poor protectors... what should they do?
PHASE 1 by Zero:
Cracking "Save disabled" protections
by Zero - 16 July 1997
The "dead listing" and the "live" approaches explained
PHASE 2 by Razzia:
razzia's tutorial for crippled programs
by Razzia - 20 August 1997
The beautiful creation of the "RazziaPad"
PHASE 3 by PNA:
W32Dasm Version 8.0 Save re-enabling__NEW!__
by PNA - 31 August 1997
How to get our dialogs and our routines inside our targets
PHASE 4 by Fravia+
(with an adds on by Frog's Print and another one by Fravia+)
An interesting tool: Screen Ruler
by Fravia+ & Frog's Print - 11-15 September 1997
The "pixel shortcut" method
How to transform a target adding functionalities to it
PHASE 5 by rundus
ARJSHELL DISABLED SAVE FUNCTION
by Rundus 26 September 1997
A location helds the secret
PHASE 6 by Quine:
Extending the IDA Script Language
by Quine - 27 January 1998
A First Stab
PHASE 7 by -MML-:
Cracking MicroCal Origin 5.0 in 3 Simple Ways
by Quine - 03 May 1998
A First Stab
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