Newbie Keygenning 1


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This is a random very old crackme I found when I was bored with assignments, which is pretty easy and thought of sharing with you. Doing crackmes one by one 😀 Download: https://www.mediafire.com/?351rp7o9qmf97js

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After opening in Olly and checking the string references we can see the congratulations string.

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After following the string we see the following disassembly.

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00401171 is our bad boy. If we check the jumps we see that first the string is being compared to 3 and

CMP DWORD PTR SS:[LOCAL.10],3 ; compare with 3
JLE SHORT 00401171 ; jump if less than or equal to bad boy
CMP DWORD PTR SS:[LOCAL.10],32 ; compare with 50
JGE SHORT 00401171 ; jump if greater than or equal to bad boy

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Next we have the algorithm for generating the serial and then it compares our entered serial with it. Let’s analyze it.

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MOVSX EAX,BYTE PTR SS:[ECX+EBP-0B8] ; place the string byte in EAX, string[index++]
INC ECX ; increment the counter
XOR EAX,ECX ; xor eax with ecx
ADD EBX,EAX ; add the above result eax to ebx.
CMP ECX,DWORD PTR SS:[LOCAL.10] ; compare ecx with the length
JNE SHORT 0040110C ; if not zero, loop
IMUL EAX,EAX,6 ; Multiply EAX by 6 and store in EAX
SHL EBX,7 ; shift left 7, EBX << 7 or EBX * (2 ** 7)

Here’s the high level code of the algorithm written in C. So there it is the keygen and it says to write a tutorial so I did it 😉

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