downloadbrowseqfqe's crackme 0x01 by qfqe

Download crkm0x1.zip, 1736 kb (password: crackmes.de)
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Difficulty: 2 - Needs a little brain (or luck)
Platform: Windows
Language: Python

Published: 14. Dec, 2008
Downloads: 650

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Discussion and comments

xrem
17. Dec 2008
Is patching allowed?
aout
17. Dec 2008
FYI: Just because you may have used an easy algorithm, this is not an easy crackme. Reversing py2exe'd files is complex. First we have to understand how/where the Python byte code is stored, then extract it and eventually decompile the byte code back to Python code.
synak
22. Dec 2008
bytecode is stored in the resource section of the exe, version python 2.6 i believe. unfortunately no free decompilers to handle 2.6.. also, appears that py2exe mangles python's magic number (first bytes of the pyc embedded in the resource section)..
aout
23. Dec 2008
Yeah I know it's stored in a ressource, I read the py2exe source, but I didn't quite get if it's one file or many or whatever. Searching for zip signatures in the dumped resource file gives you a good handful of 320 hits. py2exe seems to concatenate each zipped pyc file or something like that. Altogether way harder than the author thought it to be ;)

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