DarkWolf

presents:

Essay nš #1: Cracking koRnFLeX's ViSual Basic Crackme #3

Toolz:

SmartCheck only. Get it on my page :o)

Download the crackme on http://crackmes.cjb.net

Explain: This essay, we gonna hunt the serial. Its very easy.

The Essay:

Load SmartCheck. Be sure that ur version is 6 or greater. Open kf-crkme3.exe on SC and run it. Now, select 'Show all events' and goto the crackme. Type any name and serial. Click the register button. An very ugly bmp appears, telling u that u fail (if u can't understand that image). Close the crackme and goto SC. Click View, Arguments, and click in the +_Click. U gonna see a lot of things. Translating to u: Its get the size of a variable called "P: ..sfer gnirts tsurt tnod !laires gnorw". In the first time, i thing that is another language, but i u look at it, it means "wrong serial! dont trust string refs.. :P". After, gets the size of ur name. After it inverts ur nick like DarkWolf, floWkraD. After, it gets all chars of ur inverted nick. Look at the end of the _Click function. Len(String:"here is your generated serial")returns LONG: bla. Copy that string and goto the crackme. Enter that serial and click register. Now, the ugly image change to another and very ugly appears, meaning Good Job! Well, thats it! Congratulations :)

I used Name DarkWolf, the results serial is egkmnpVXjlqs`bCE. Very strange and easy to get.

Greetz:

MERCUTION, AC_178, Ac|dFuSiO, LaZaRuZ^, Dead-Mike, Termn8r. If i forgot u, sorry :)