From time to time, I encounter….weird forms of software protection. Stuff most other reverse engineers have probably never seen. Take this example. I was trying to track down a string in a binary, but couldn’t find it through conventional means, so I opened the program up with a resource editor. Then i stumble upon this […]
For most windows users, this is as simple as control alt delete, or failing that, TASK.exe from the command prompt. nut how do you do it programmatically(it is so a word)? There are a few ways, but I like to use one particular library for its small size and speed. Procs.dll. The contents ofthe […]
Aren’t those tunes awesome? midi tracks of the 80’s packaged with a little app and shouts to people you’ve never heard of? I’m talking about keygens. And I want to go over how they’re made. This is going to be a multi-parter. This first section is going to go over the very basics. For […]
I plan to release 2 blog posts this week on more interesting stuff such as keygenning 101 and how to exploit wordpress plugins. The second one takes some time since I have to find the right plugins to exploit.
I ran across this POC code a few months ago. It allows a you to execute processes as a child process of other stuff. Wouldnt it be grand to have your programs run as child processes of system_idle_process or even winlogon? Thanks to Visata, now you can! There’s a little feature added to the STARTUPINFOEX […]