crack a software or plugin Tutorial

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  1. verwest

    verwest Ultrasonic

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    I wanted to make this post for a long time, and mostly I want to request a training course from King R2R or Knight VR or Major Generals BUBBiX, BTCR, r4e , vkDanilov.
    MORiA, Audiowarez, bobdule, TEAM HCiSO (did I do a good visualization?:wink:)

    Is it possible for you dear ones to teach regular users here from the basic to professional level by the same publishers (DECiBELLE, Hidera) or with your own name?
     
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  3. Kelsier

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    Ghidra and IDA pro are two decompilers I have used in the past. If you are interested in learning how to crack, these are the tools you should be looking at.

    There are a few courses already available on the web for these tools. You’ll need to understand your processor architecture and OpCode a bit first though
     
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  4. PROMUSICAUDIO

    PROMUSICAUDIO Ultrasonic

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    Im also interested i wanna crack ilok 3 plugins that team r2r doesnt want to release
     
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  5. Radio

    Radio Audiosexual

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    You need a degree in computer science from Harvard University. Apply to the university and study for a few years. After completing your studies, you can do an internship with Team R2R and if you prove yourself, you will get a trial job with Team R2R.

    I wish you the best of luck in your further education.

    Kind regards, Hu-mor
     
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  6. Slavestate

    Slavestate Platinum Record

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    Something tells me that if R2R cant do it, that means there is no chance in hell you would ever get remotely close to it..
     
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  7. bobdule

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    it's sad this generation of YouTube tutorials
    that offers nothing in exchange
    just for the sake of being a regular user.
    the answer will probably be: but who cares.
    i think this approach doesn't offer a realistic view of things.
    because we're not in star wars.


    and you forget our friend TCD
     
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  8. Will Kweks

    Will Kweks Rock Star

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    Step 1:

    Learn the basics of machine code for your hardware platform (x86_64, ARM, what have you), learn the C calling convention for your operating system. Figure out the executable format for your software platform (PE or ELF). Read up on the basics of encryption/decryption, and a bit more on applied and practical cryptography.

    That should keep you busy for a couple of months (or years).

    Step 2:

    Use some sort of decompiling tool to figure out program flow. Hook up a debugger to inspect the software in flight.

    Step 3:

    Find where it bugs out due to protection, circumvent that step.

    Step 4.

    ***

    Step 5.

    PROFIT!

    ...

    Actually Step 5 is: you messed up step 3, go back.
     
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  9. Aileron

    Aileron Audiosexual

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    @bobdule Mmm...maybe if I can crack that puzzle... I can crack Anything. :cool:
     
  10. Radio

    Radio Audiosexual

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    Take comfort @Aileron, because only 0,00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% of the human species on this planet are even mentally capable of cracking iLOK.
     
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  11. Warez4Ever

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    I heard soon team R2R will release a Cracking with the Masters series live from Elon Musk Mars colony .
     
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    Ähm, no - I don't think so. Not if you stay average :rofl:
    Even software that is only secured by a serial cannot be cracked by the average user.
    The person who programmed the protection has already put in a lot of effort to prevent this. So you would have to be at least as good as him to crack a program.
    To crack more complex mechanisms, years of experience are required to find out where the dev has set up small traps. To pool this experience, crackers like to work in teams I suppose.

    btw
    ("crack a software or plugin Tutorial") there is no real difference between a software and a plugin when it comes to cracking. Plugins are .DLLs (a kind of encapsulated collection of functions) that are used by the host app. Both are softwares.
     
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  13. reziduchamp

    reziduchamp Platinum Record

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    I've already cracked part of that series. I made a post on it a while ago...

    These are all related to synthesis. Each machine has different pathways, different output. Some levitate. Some are cutting machines... I'm starting to think some even grow plants (like a grow room - harvesting using electromagnetic sound)... The hieroglyphs probably changed into these letters over time, but originally the describe the tech inside pyramids... Seems to match in what cases I've already decoded :)

    Twisted flax is interesting. Its how they made the granite vases if you're aware of those, according to the cartouches.
     
  14. fnord23

    fnord23 Kapellmeister

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    Related question: how do virus scanners immediately identify a Keygen or similar exes? How do they recognize that it's this, even though it is just a small Programm that calculates a code?
     
  15. clone

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    Heuristics.
     
  16. BlossomwoodsCollection

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    Cracking With The Masters sent me :hahaha:
     
  17. lbnv

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    There are plenty of materials on the net on this topic. I don't know about iLok but you can find enough info about cracking custom protections and such systems as VMProtect. There are plenty info on Youtube. More academic info for example here:
    https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=ru&as_sdt=0,5&q=reverse+engineering&btnG=
    https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=ru&as_sdt=0,5&q=deobfuscation&btnG=

    Look at this article about VMProtest and think twice whether you want to go deeper:
    https://blog.back.engineering/17/05/2021/

    Yes, this a tutorial you are searching for. It looks like this. :woot:
     
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  18. Thotu

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    You forgot AudioUtopia and their Protools crack. No doubt R2R are king and reign our hearts though.
     
  19. shinyzen

    shinyzen Rock Star

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    what you want to do, is download the demo of the software you want to crack. open it up, and while the gui is on your screen, take a hammer or other similar tool, and hit the screen until it cracks.
     
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  20. Auen Fred

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    dunno whats funny about or why makin fun about somebody who want to learn about , also it might be the real future novice in this realm will know where to start , anyways .
    ...but hell when a almost certified troll comes and says he cant plug a few cables from mixer to interface and sets baits about crystal clear warm sound from a 80 bucks unit without any expensive dedicated ad/da unit or DAW troll baits , this one gets rolled out the red carped .
     
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  21. xorome

    xorome Audiosexual

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    Maybe because the opening title is a bit silly: Where to find a cracking tutorial?

    Just feels like one of the many posts where someone thinks something is super trivial and just a bunch of "common sense" and likely won't accept that they need to put in the work, instead of looking for shortcuts that compress a multiyear endeavour into a single 7 minute YouTube tutsi between sandwiches on lunch break.
     
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