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- | How to crack WinRoute Lite v3.0 | by da Cracker/CBE
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-
- Introduction:
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- Many peoples these days are asking me "Can you teach me how to crack?" That's
- why I decided to write my third tutorial, requested by (don't remember). In
- this tutorial, I'll teach you how to crack WinRoute Lite v3.0... I hope that
- you'll enjoy it! If you have any comment, suggestions, .... please e-mail me
- at dc_cbe@hotmail.com
-
-
- ┌────────────────────Index──────────────────────────┐
- | |
- |1) Programs that you'll need to crack WinRoute Lite|
- |2) Finding the location that needs to be patched |
- |3) Patching the location |
- |4) Changing text in the program |
- |5) Writing a patcher in Pascal |
- |6) Final Notes |
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- 1) Programs that you'll need to crack WinRoute Lite
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-
- Here's the list of programs that you'll need to get to crack WinRoute Lite:
-
- WinDisassembler
- WinRoute Lite (no, really? ;) )
- Hacker's View
-
- Don't expect to crack it without these utilities!
- Note: You can get them at http://cracking.home.ml.org, or if you're a CBE
- member, at CBE's memberz FTP Area
- And you can get WinRoute Lite at http://www.winroute.com
-
-
- 2) Finding the location that needs to be patched
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-
- Now we're going to find the location that needs to be patched (where you have
- to modify the program so that it doesn't expire...)
-
- Start WinRoute Lite
- What do I see? WinRoute 3.0, 30 days evaluation... Hehe, it's a 30-day
- evaluation. Ok, let's crack this piece of shit ;)
- Exit WinRoute Lite
- Now, add one month to your system date (you should know how to do that)...
- Start WinRoute Lite again.
- Trial Expired! You surely still want to use this nice little proggie... Ok,
- let's go: let's CRACK it. Remember the message (Trial Period Expired).
- Now, exit WinRoute Lite (again!)
- Go to the directory where WinRoute Lite is installed (normally
- c:\Program Files\WinRoute 3.0)
- Copy the file wrlite.exe to wrlite.bak (for Backup) and to 1.exe (for use by
- w32dasm... Why??? Because of the crappy "Application Running, can't modify it"
- Done? ok, now run w32dasm.
- Click on Disassembler --> Open File to Disassemble
- Go to the directory of WinRoute Lite and select 1.exe
- Disassembles quite fast, heh? That's because this prog is small... Now, click
- on the menu Search --> Find Text and search for "trial period expired" (that
- was our error message, remember?) Here's what we get:
-
- *Possible StringData Ref from Data Obj -> "#5Trial period has expired" <-- Sux
-
- :0040B348 6898704200 push 00427098 <-- Saves some useless info
- :0040B34D E80E7D0000 call 00413060 <-- Calls some shit
- :0040B352 83C404 add esp, 00000004 <-- Adds 4 (not base 10!) to esp
-
- ummm, so, what can we do are you going to ask me... But... What do we see one
- line up?
-
- :0040B346 750D jne 040B355 <-- Jump there if trial period not expired
-
- Do you understand what we have to do? Yes? jne stands for jump if not equal
- and je stands for je if equal... So, what should we do? Change jne to je? Nah,
- because if the trial period hasn't expired, it will go to the place where it
- sayz that it has expired. So, what else can we do? Replace jne with jmp, of
- course! jmp jumps directly there, no matter what happens.
-
- That's it!!! You found the location to patch!!!
- And now you just need to patch it! (described in part 3)
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- 3) Patching the location
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- Click on the location where the conditional jump (0040B346) has occured.
- In the status bar, you'll see: "Code Data @: 0040B346 @Offset 0000A746h"
- So the offset address is A746 (you don't need the 0's and the h)
- Ok, remember this.
- Start Hacker's View to edit the exe file of WinRoute Lite (hiew wrlite.exe)
- Press F4, select Decode and press enter
- Press F5 (goto offset) and type A746 (that's where we want to go) + Enter
- Now, you're almost done....
- Press F3 (To edit the program)
- You can see 75 and some other things. 75 stands for jne (jump if not equal)
- Ok, so now we have to replace jne to jmp (jump directly)
- The Hex code for jmp if EB, so type EB.
- Now, press F9 to update the file and F10 to exit.
- Start WinRoute Lite.
- WinRoute Lite isn't expired!!
- Voila!!! WinRoute Lite will never expire! You've made it!
- Oh, another thing, put your system date at the right date back (one month
- before...)
-
-
- 4) Changing text in the program
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-
- Because I had some more time for this tutorial, I decided to write another
- section that is NOT required for the crack to work, but makes the program
- *pretty* ;) What I mean is that instead of the "30 days evaluation" it could
- be written "Cracked by dC/CBE", well you know what I mean...
- Oh yeah, before doing this, copy the cracked wrlite.exe to wrlite.cra for a
- 2nd backup (in case you mess up with the exe...). Ok, now, you can use either
- Hacker's View or HexWorkshop, or any other Hex Editor... In this tutorial,
- I'll use Hacker's View because it's my favorite. Ok, so let's go!
- Start Hacker's View (type "hiew wrlite.exe"). How are we going to proceed?
- Well, start the program to know... Which text(s) would you like to change?
- Ummm, "WinRoute v3.0, 30 days evaluation <-- hahaha" ok, we'll change this one
- first. In Hacker's View, press F4, but this time, choose Hex (+Enter). Damn!
- This program is ugly! ;) Ok, we're going to search for "30 days evaluation"
- Press F7. Type "30 days evaluation" (+Enter)... I found out that the first one
- that you find isn't the right one (there are only two such messages)...
- Ok, so press on the right arrow once. Now, press F7 and then enter. Now we
- found the thing that we wanted to change! Here's what we found:
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- %s %s, 30 da
- ys evaluation
-
- Press F3 to Edit the program... Now you can edit it with HEX values... DON'T
- do so! Press tab and now, you can edit it with characters... Change "30 days
- evaluation" to "Cracked by dC/CBE", but be AWARE that if you change more than
- 17 characters, the program WON'T work. Why 17 characters? Because, count how
- many characters there are in "30 days evaluation"... 17! If you don't want to
- put anything, but you don't want it to display "30 days evaluation", just put
- spaces. Once you're done, press F9 and then F10 to exit.
-
-
- 5) Writing a patcher in Pascal
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-
- Now, to release the crack, you have to make what we call a patch.
- Yeah, you can't distribute the exe for two reasons:
- 1) It's illegal (a patch isn't illegal: it's your prog; but when a persons uses
- it, it's illegal)
- 2) It's quite big for a crack
-
- In the last tutorial, the patcher was in C++, so I decided to make this one in
- pascal... Humm, next time will be assembler ;)
- Here's the Pascal source code of the patcher:
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- -------------------------------cut here---------------------------------------
-
- Const Offset : Array [1..18] Of LongInt = (
- 42822, 154843, 154844, 154845,
- 154846, 154847, 154848, 154849, 154851,
- 154852, 154853, 154854, 154855, 154856,
- 154857, 154858, 154859, 154860 );
-
- Const Data : Array [1..36] Of Byte = (
- 117, 235, 51, 67, 48, 114, 32, 97,
- 100, 99, 97, 107, 121, 101, 115, 100, 101, 98,
- 118, 121, 97, 32, 108, 100, 117, 67, 97, 47,
- 116, 67, 105, 66, 111, 69, 110, 32 );
-
- Var Filename: File;
- Counter : Word;
- Readbyte : Byte;
- Begin
- Write (' ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄');
- Write (#13+ #10+ '█▀ ▀█');
- Write (#13+ #10+ '█ WinRoute Lite 3.0 █');
- Write (#13+ #10+ '█ REMOVES EXPIRATION DATE █');
- Write (#13+ #10+ '█ by da Cracker/CBE █');
- Write (#13+ #10+ '█ █');
- Write (#13+ #10+ '█ E-mail: dc_cbe@hotmail.com █');
- Write (#13+ #10+ '█ Website: http://www.cbe98.org █');
- Write (#13+ #10+ '█ IRC: #cbe98 on Efnet █');
- Write (#13+ #10+ '█ Affiliate: PGC █');
- Write (#13+ #10+ '█▄ ▄█');
- Write (#13+ #10+ ' ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀');
- Write (#13+ #10+ #13+ #10+ '■ OPENING FILE : ');
- Assign (Filename, 'WRLITE.EXE');
- {$I-} Reset (Filename, 1); {$I+}
- If IOResult = 0 Then Begin
- Write ('OK!'+ #13+ #10+ '■ CHECKING SIZE : ');
- If FileSize (Filename) = 192000 Then Begin
- Write ('OK!'+ #13+ #10+ '■ CRACKING FILE : ');
- For Counter:= 1 To 18 Do Begin
- Seek (Filename, Offset [Counter] );
- BlockRead (Filename, Readbyte, 1);
- If Readbyte = Data [Counter* 2- 1] Then Begin
- Seek (Filename, Offset [Counter] );
- BlockWrite (Filename, Data [Counter* 2], 1);
- End Else Begin
- WriteLn ('SJiT!'+ #13+ #10+ '■ FILE ALREADY CRACKED OR DIFFERENT!'); Close(Filename); Halt;
- End;
- End;
- Close (Filename);
- WriteLn ('OK!'+ #13+ #10+ '■ CRACK SUCCESSFULL!');
- End Else WriteLn ('ERROR!'+ #13+ #10+ '■ WRONG VERSiON OF FILE!');
- End Else WriteLn ('ERROR!'+ #13+ #10+ '■ CAN''T OPEN FILE !');
- End.
- ----------------------------------cut here------------------------------------
-
- Now, compile this patcher (with Turbo Pascal) and you can distribute your
- crack!
-
-
- 6) Final Notes
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- I hope that you enjoyed reading this tutorial as much as I did writing it!
- I wrote it for someone who is a newbie and who wants to learn how to crack...
- Good luck, (I don't remember his name!)!
-
- -da Cracker/CBE
- dc_cbe@hotmail.com
- http://www.cbe98.org
- #cbe98 on Efnet
- Come and chat with us on IRC!
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