| Target Program: |
Coffee Break 1.1 |
| Description: |
This desktop tray accessory allows the user to set a
periodical reminder, which when triggered will display a message inviting the user to take
a well-earned Coffee-Break. |
| Location: |
http://www.powerup.com.au/~marver |
| Protection: |
Missing Key File |
| Tools needed: |
SoftICE 3.24 |
| Ob duh: |
Do I really have to remind you
all that by BUYING and NOT stealing the software you use will ensure that these software
houses will continue to produce even *better* software for us to use and more importantly,
to continue offering even more challenges to breaking their often weak protection systems.
BTW, It's illegal to use cracked Software!
If you're looking for
cracks or serial numbers from these pages then your wasting your time, try to search
elsewhere on the Web under Warez, Cracks, etc. |
| Info: |
Brand and product names are trademarks or registered
trademarks of their respective holders. |
| Level: |
( )Beginner (X)Intermediate ( )Advanced ( )Expert |
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This tutorial was written for
all those crackers who want to learn the *magic* thing of a key file reconstruction. I
took that target program from Popcorn Software simply for that reason that you don't
forget breaks, ... which we should all have sometimes.
First of all we need to find out the name of the key file. So open COFFEBREAK.EXE
in Hacker's View and look for .KEY (most key files have the
.KEY extension). You will find out that the name of our key file is REG.KEY.
So create a file in the program directory. Your key file should look like the following:
Cr@cking Tutori@l (PIRATED COPY)
Restart the program. Now we get the error message 'Cr@cking
Tutori@l (PIRATED COPY)' is not a valid integer value. So in our first line there
must be an integer value. Just edit your key file. It should now look like the following:
12345
Cr@cking Tutori@l (PIRATED COPY)
Restart the program. You'll get another error message: "
is not a valid integer value. Hey, what's that?? Ok. Just add a third line to your
key file. It should now look something like that:
12345
Cr@cking Tutori@l (PIRATED COPY)
67890
Restart the program. This time we didn't got any error message; so we can assume
that our fake values are in the right format ... when you exit the program REGISTER.TXT will still be opend by the program. So it's time for
the SoftICE tracing now. For key files I recommend the breakpoints _lopen and CreateFileA.
So set these breakpoints now.
SoftICE will break at CreateFileA and you'll be confrontated with the following
code snippet:
:004048B7 CALL KERNEL32!CreateFileA
:004048BC CMP EAX,-01
; Does file exist?
:004048BF JZ 004049B0
; if not JMP |
... the above code snippet
is just a test if the file exists. After some tracing you will come accross the following
code snippet:
:0043792E CALL 00402718
:00437933 LEA EDX,[EBP-08]
:00437936 LEA EAX,[EBP-01E0]
:0043793C CALL 00403C28
...
:004379BD MOV EBX,00000001
;
EBX = 1
:004379C2 LEA EAX,[EBP-02E0]
:004379C8 CALL 00406CFC
; get length of line 2
:004379CD MOV EDX,EAX
; move length (EAX) into EDX
:004379CF DEC EDX
:004379D0 TEST EDX,EDX
; loops (length of name) left > 0?
:004379D2 JL 004379E5
:004379D4 INC EDX
:004379D5 LEA EAX,[EBP-02E0]
:004379DB XOR ECX,ECX
:004379DD MOV CL,[EAX]
;
get char from EAX
:004379DF XOR EBX,ECX
; EBX = EBX XOR ECX
:004379E1 INC EAX
;
next char
:004379E2 DEC EDX
:004379E3 JNZ 00437ADB
:004379E5 MOV EAX,[EBP-14]
:004379E8 CDQ
:004379E9 IDIV EBX
;
EAX = EAX / EBX
:004379EB MOV EBX,EAX
:004379ED MOV BYTE PTR [00439764],01
; set good buyer flag
:004379F4 CMP DWORD PTR [EBP-14],04E0277F
; first line = 4E0277F?
:004379FB JZ 00437A04
; JZ good buyer
:004379FD MOV BYTE PTR [00439764],00
; set bad cracker flag
:00437A04 MOV EAX,[EBP-10]
:00437A07 CALL 00406A24
:00437A0C CMP EBX,EAX
; compare line 3 with real line 3
:00437A0E JZ 00437A17
; good buyer jump
:00437A10 MOV BYTE PTR [00439764],00
; set bad cracker flag
:00437A17 CMP BYTE PTR [00439764],00
; bad cracker?
:00437A1E JNZ 00437A2D
; JNZ good buyer! |
As you may see from my code
comments above, we need to edit our key file once again. It will now look something like
that:
81799039
Cr@cking Tutori@l (PIRATED COPY)
67890
Now you need to run the target once again. Be sure to understand the very easy key
generation algorithm. You may then sniff out the real code at 437A0C.
A working key file for this target will look like the following:
81799039
Cr@cking Tutori@l (PIRATED COPY)
743627
Just run the target to see if your key file generation was good - and you won't see
any NAG ... congratulations! This is fairly too easy for me. I want to create a key file
generator. Have a look again at 004379D5 - 004379E9 ... and try to figure out how the
calculation works yourself ... otherwise you won't be able to learn something new from
this tutorial.
The calculation works like the following (EBX = 1):
1) take char from name and store it in CL
2) XOR EBX by ASCII value of char
3) repeat 1 and 2 until there were no chars left
4) divide 81799039 by EBX
Now create your key file generator in your favourite programming language - like
C++.
// This is the C++ Source Code of my KeyGEN. I hope you like it.
// I've compiled it using Symantec C/C++ 6.11
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main()
{
unsigned long EAX, EBX, CL, i;
unsigned long constant = 0x04E0277F;
char name[100] = {0};
FILE* REG_KEY;
printf(" ____ __ __\n");
printf(" / _/_ _ __ _ ___ ____/ /____ _/ /\n");
printf(" _/ // ' \\/ ' \\/ _ \\/ __/ __/ _ `/ /\n");
printf("/___/_/_/_/_/_/_/\\___/_/ \\__/\\_,_/_/\n");
printf(" ____ __ __\n");
printf(" / __ \\___ ___ _______ ___ ___/ /__ ____ / /____\n");
printf(" / /_/ / -_|_-</ __/ -_) _ \\/ _ / _ `/ _ \\/ __(_-<\n");
printf("/_____/\\__/___/\\__/\\__/_//_/\\_,_/\\_,_/_//_/\\__/___/\n\n");
for (;;){
printf("\nCoffee Break 1.1 KeyGEN - d0NE bY TORN@DO in '99\n");
printf("=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=\n");
printf("Name: ");
gets(name);
if (strlen(name)<1)
{
printf("ERROR: NAME can't be less than 1 char long!");
return 0;
}
if (strlen(name)>99)
{
printf("ERROR: NAME can't be greater than 99 chars long!");
return 0;
}
else break;
}
EAX = 0;
EBX = 1;
CL = 0;
for (i=1; i<=strlen(name); i++)
{
CL = name[i-1];
EBX = EBX ^ CL;
}
EAX = constant;
EAX = EAX / EBX;
// create the keyfile
if ((REG_KEY = fopen("REG.KEY", "wt")) == NULL)
{
fprintf(stderr, "ERROR: Couldn't open REG.KEY for writing!\n");
return -1;
}
// write in the data
fprintf(REG_KEY, "%lu\n", constant);
fprintf(REG_KEY, "%s\n", name);
fprintf(REG_KEY, "%lu", EAX);
// close the file
fclose(REG_KEY);
// file created successfully
printf("Key file successfully created. Copy REG.KEY to your Coffee Break directory!\n");
return 0;
}
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