Level : newbie

This tutorial is only intended for those who are really new to cracking and reverse engineering. Still, it's a step every cracker had to take at one stage, cracking something simple. This tutorial should teach the basics of unpacking a UPX packed file, restoring the IAT in an executable and then we'll go fishing for a hard-coded serial in our unpacked executable. The tools used in this tutorial are all freely available on the internet and you won't have to go looking for them.

I stumbled accross this introduction to reverse engineering. Thought it might be useful to some of our visitors. Unfortunately the document is not 100% complete. On the other hand it features some interesting topics, including some unix stuff.

Level : newbie

TDC's KeyGenME (CrackME #8) Solution Tutorial

Aimed For : Newbies in reversing, with basic knowledge of assembly instructions
(former experience with easier KeyGenMEs can be helpfull though)

Difficulty: 2/10

Tool Used : OllyDbg

Level : newbie

Intro:
Hi there, if you dont know anything about cracking then this might be a good little beginners tutorial for you.
This CrackMe is totally NOT complicated and I am going to tell you line by line what the program does and
how you can crack/modify it! I rated this newbie because this one is very simple yet good to learn if you want to start
cracking one day and you haven't really got a clue how it all works.
This program is made in assembly. That means that there is absolutley no junk code, only clean code, the code the program
needs to work. If you dontunderstand what I mean with junk code don't mind it, because you will know what I mean the further
you get. All progrma languages other then assembly are HighLevel languages (like C, Visual Basic etc) . Assembly is the lowest
language you can get. All Highlevel language Compilers convert their code to assembly before making an executable of it.
These compilers include a lot of junk code (especially the very highlevel languages), lines of assembly which you dont need.
But dont mind all this, it was some extra info. You don't need to understand this yet.

Level : newbie

Unpacking UPX packed Gamemon.des
By: g3nuin3