Posted by LaZaRuS on 1/14/2000, 1:38 pm
62.158.124.149
Greetings Crackers the moment you all have been waiting for: The newbie cracking project begins NOW. The program we deal with is called Accoustica, the version is 2.01a and to make sure that we all have the same program, I uploaded it at http://members.xoom.com/faxanadurox/acous201.exe
The tools you need are (search at http://protools.cjb.net)
A debugger (I use SoftIce)
A disassembler (I use W32Dasm)
A HexEditor (I use HexWorkshop)
A Ressource editor (I use BRW)
A registry monitoring tool (I use Registry Monitor/RegMon)I will seperate the cracking into 4 periods: Easy/Intermediate/Hard/Extra tasks. I will only present the easy tasks now, and please don't post any stuff that is not related to the current tasks (for example: post valid serial right now). The challenge is not about speed, but about learning.
Now...The easy tasks:
I. Easy tasks
I.1 What do you find when you look at target at first.
Look what you find, when you look at the program, at the helpfile
or somewhere else. Be sure not to use *any* tools yet, only look
directly at the program.
I.2 Do you find anything interested in the W32Dasm disassembly?
Now you can use a deadlisting from your favourite disassembler
and look for suspicious stuff.
I.3 What kind of window is the "Wrong-serial"-"messagebox" really?
As you will see later the window that says "Wrong serial" is
no Messagebox, but another kind of window.
I.4 Where does the program store its Registration information?
In the registry, in a file, in the EXE itself - where?
I.5 Where does the program store how many days are left?
Same as aboveGood luck
LaZaRuS
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