You can download all the tuts off this page here

On this page, we got the tuts about the basics of what we should know.

• First, get your tools....(Just Links)
• Then info on some tools and how to set them up and use them:
  • Softice
  • Disassemblers
  • Smartcheck
  • Procdump
  • Dede
  • Other
• Theres also some tuts on assembly language...(required if you really want to get in and understand how a program works).
• We also got some general beginner tuts, that give good basics for beginners.
• Then we gonna make a start with our cracking. A basic series of tuts (with targets) that you can follow and hopefully put what you have read into practice!
• We got the new tuts off the page here...(added Jan/02)

Lets go!!!!!!!

Without the tools it hard to do anything and the three tools you really got to have for most of the tuts are:

• A debugger...the one to get is softice.
• A disassembler...get W32dasm.
• A hexeditor...a bit of choice here, but I like Hiew.

You can find them here, and other places too.

Protools
Exetools
CyberTools
CrackStore
Crackpl Tools
Coders Domain
Learn to Crack...you'll find an earlier version of my site faithfully reproduced/pinched here!!
 

Ok, we got the tools, now we ready to make a start. Hmmm, not quite. That like walking before we crawl. First it be wise to read some/all of these excellent tuts so we get an idea of what involved. These first tuts give the basis of what we need to know BEFORE/AS we start, so read them then we ready to go!!!

 

Ok, we got through that??? Now we gonna make a start with our cracking.

Crackmes are made both to test our skill and give us experience at the different protection schemes that programs have (as well as coding experience for the people that write them, I guess). The benefit is that we just get the important protection scheme and not all the crap that goes with it. Don't get me wrong, the craps what we want, but we dont need it for now.

So what we gonna do is 'crack' some crackmes, starting with simple and moving on to more difficult. In this way we gonna gain experience at different protections and the tools we gotta use.

Lots of sites got crackmes, but the most I seen come from The Crackme Website....a great site!

We start with a crackme by Brad Soblesky.

• First we find the serial number using softice.
• Next we use W32dasm to look at the code to see where we can 'patch' it.
• Next..we use Hiew to make changes permanent,
• Then we use a patch machine to make our own 'crack'.