Reverse Engineering Tutorial For Newbies - Part 2

This is the second post on reverse engineering series on RHA,In the previous post Reverse Engineering Tutorial For Newbies I showed you step by step how to crack an application so as if you enter the wrong password that program will think that it's the right password, However this is a bit advanced tutorial and in this tutorial I will tell you how you can fully register a program or software completly.The software I will use in this tutorial is Pixtopian Book

Disclaimer - By reading or following this tutorial you agree that this tutorial is for educational purposes only, RHA is not responsible for any damages caused by you

Requirements

1.Pixtopian Book
2.OllyDBG

Method

1.First of all download Pixtopian book and install in to your computer and open the Pixtopian book.

2.Now first of all we will look at the limitations of unregistered version of Pixtopian book:

a).You cannot add more than three groups and if you try to add more groups it will give the following error:

"You,ve reached the limit of three groups. Please Register Pixtopian book today!"

b)You can only add 4 Contacts/Name, If you try to add 5th name it will give the following error:

 You,ve reached the limit of 4 enteries per group/ Please register PixtopianBook today!

3.Now open Pixtopian book in OllyDBG

4.Now Right click there goto search for and click on All refrence Text strings

5.Right click there and click on Search For and search for "You,ve reached the limit of three groups" once you have found it double click it


6.Scroll above and you will see the following line:

"CMP EAX.3"

This line compares how many groups you put in with 3 if the group exceeds 3 then it gives the error message which is "You,ve reached the limit of three groups" but if you don't have three groups this condition will jump to the line JL SHORT 00408B34 and this will make it jump to 00408B34

So inorder to make this esc both errors we will Change JL SHORT 00408B34 to JMP SHORT 00408B34 so this will always esc the errors and this will make not a conditional jump any more

7.Now change the value of  JL SHORT 00408B34 to JMP SHORT 00408B34 and click assemble and click the blue button at the top.

8.After you click play you will end up in the following line 760642EP , The program will still not run because it has a very little range.

9.Now to increase range we will go to Options - Debugging options - Exceptions and there click on "add range of exceptions" and enter the range to "000000" and in the form "Last exceptions in range" we will enter "CCCCCCCC" Click Ok and tick also "Ignore also the following custom exceptions and ranges"

10.Now restart the program and follow again follow the steps 1-5 and again change JL SHORT 00408B34 to JMP SHORT 00408B34 start the Program and it will work and it will work for you and you can add more then 4 Groups and for adding more names repeat the above steps again.

Hint:Search For the error "You,ve reached the limit of 4 enteries per group/ Please register PixtopianBook today!"

And you are done.

Hope you have liked the tutorial, If you have questions feel free to ask me.