--Softice Tutorial--- Date written: 18.4.2001 Program Details: Name: cracker for freedom crackme #2 Author: Bengaly Tools Used: Softice ________________________________________________________________________ -About this protection system- easy Protection which based on a serial number. __________________________________________________________________________ The Essay As this is a tutorial for newbies, I'll go into details about how I go about cracking the program. I suggest that you read this tutorial first. When you have completed the tutorial, leave this tutorial open and follow the instructions. Re-do it once more after you have completed the step by step guide... In this essay, when I write type "d EAX" or similar commands in Softice, I mean it without the quotes. __________________________________________________________________________ Lets Crack The Bitch ;) ok that's to much easy. ;) ok let's crack then; open the crack me , u see 1 text field, i entered this: serial: 123456 <= very easy to remember ;) open your fav black debugger SoftIce ;) set a nice breakpoint BPX HMEMCPT press f5/ctrl+d Press CHCEK THE SERIAL..BOOOMMM Sice poped up ;) we are in the HMEMCPY ;) press F12.(get out from fucking DLL, press 12 time (to go over the ret commands) we will see that: *just trace with f10 alittle bit. xxxx:yyyy MOV EAX,[EBP-04] ; mov fake serial to eax xxxx:yyyy MOV EDX,00442BE8 ; right serial move into edx xxxx:yyyy CALL 00403B44 ;good boy ;) xxxx:yyyy CALL 00442B79 ;bad boy >:/ ok so, are we finished?? yes we did..just do: "d 00442BE8", and the right serial will be in the data code window: here this is the serial: 12011982 cracMe cracked ;) __________________________________________________________________________ Final Notes This tutorial is dedicated to all the newbies like me. I've tried to explain everything in details. This is my first tut so...;) And because I'm a newbie myself, I may have explained certain things wrongly So, if that is the case, please forgive me. Email me if there is anything you are not clear about. My thanks and gratitude goes to: ---ANALYST(ACiD-BUrN)--- ; for helping in cracking ----CODE_INSIDE----- ;for helping in cracking -----BLAcKgH0sT------ ;for being good friend :) -------FusS------ ;asm / keygenning helper All the writers of Cracks tutorials and CrackMes