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- Turning File Shredder v2.2 into its own Keygen by Flu[X]/PC98
- A Second Look at the keygen-patch approach.
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- Items needed for this tutorial:
- Hiew 5.xx
- W32 Dasm 8.7+
- SoftICE 3.2+
- File Shredder v2.2 (http://www.execpc.com/~sbd/SHREDDER.ZIP)
- Basic asm knowlodge...
-
- Ok, after you have all of these items your ready
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- If you read my first tutor you will be familiar with this method
- otherwise, i suggest you download it ant read it..
-
- Again im going to concentrate on how to make a program store
- the correct registration info without user intervention.
- Ok start SoftICE and load in the standard breakpoints.
- (you should know these) Enter in some random information
- and try to register it.
-
- Ok, were interested in what it does with the code we have entered
- so since there are 3 boxes we hit F5 twice. After a while of tracing
- you will come to this:
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- :004014AC 55 push ebp
- :004014AD 57 push edi
- :004014AE E86D190000 call 00402E20
- :004014B3 83C408 add esp, 00000008
- :004014B6 3BC3 cmp eax, ebx <--compare the two values
- eax= real ebx=your fake
- :004014B8 741E je 004014D8 <-- if they are same goto registered
- :004014BA 68CFEA0000 push 0000EACF
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-
- so how would we go about fixing this? ok now lets see...
- we know eax has the real serial# (from doing a ? eax)
- so thats already good... now how can we fix the value in ebx..
- maybe if we change cmp eax, ebx TO mov ebx, eax.
- that will "overwrite" our fake serial#..now how about
- that jump? well since it will go there if registered
- and we have fixed it so it will always get registered we
- just change it to JMP.
-
- ok lets try it, new code should look like this:
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- :004014AE E86D190000 call 00402E20
- :004014B3 83C408 add esp, 00000008
- :004014B6 8BD8 mov ebx, eax <-- move real ser# to
- where our fake is.
- :004014B8 EB1E jmp 004014D8 <-- always jump to registered
-
- ok patch the file, now try it, hey it registers...
- the program will shut down..
- ok start it again, hey look it works, our name is in the box
- click on the register key, hey look in the box is what
- the serial *should* have been.
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- now we have 2 "cracks" for this program, a serial# and a
- program that makes its own keys.. so go ahead and generate
- as many valid serial#'s as you want!
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- Anyways, i dont have to say this as it should be understood, if you
- like thes program and continue to use it you should purchase a copy.
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- Flu[X] - Phrozen Crew 98
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- EOF