It's been quiet here for more than a year. That's OK, I've been busy with my real life and other projects.
Well, that's a lame excuse! 🙂 In this post I'll try to explain what happened and how I (hopefully) solved the issue.
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Advent of Nerds
For some weird and inexplicable reason, every year there are plenty of IT-related advent challenges.
Have you ever seen gardeners, baristas, graphic designers or any other creative profession making advent challenges glorifying their craft? I bet you haven't. Yet, there's an Advent of Code event every year and there are lesser-known events for most popular programming languages. Just to name a few - Advent of SQL, Advent of JavaScript, Advent of Rust and even Advent of No-Code.
This year I decided to try out few of these challenges during my Christmas holidays.
Please excuse the mess!
I'm sorry. My hoster suddenly required me to migrate to a newer version of PHP. That severely broke my WordPress setup, including the old theme and syntax highlighting, and download buttons. I'm working hard to get it all working again.
Looks like I've resolved most of the issues. Have a great stay!
Another update to Enigma Virtual Box unpacker
Enigma Virtual Box authors made some changes in version 10.70 and broke my unpacker again. 🙁 To be able to support more and more versions, my unpacker requires some serious redesign.
That will take some thinking time and energy but I'll eventually get around to it.
In the meantime, here's a quick fix:
- Detects and unpacks Enigma Virtual Box versions 10.70 and 10.80;
Happy 2024!
To start new year on a positive note, here's a new version of my Enigma Virtual Box unpacker.
- Added detection Enigma Virtual Box v10.40 and 10.50.
- Added support for Enigma Virtual Box v10.60.
Big thank you goes to everyone who reported issues with my tools. I really appreciate it!
Have a great year!
Flare-On 9 medal has arrived!
It's taken over a year but the medal for 2022 contest is finally in my hands. 🙂
This time organizers had to deal with some manufacturing issues (which took them a full year to resolve), and I had to deal with overly zealous customs and taxes office. They billed me around 20 eur in taxes and surcharges for a simple trinket. Un-fucking-believable!
Updated Enigma Virtual Box unpacker (again)
Enigma Virtual Box unpacker
There are few minor fixes:
- Now it can unpack Enigma Virtual Box versions 10.20 and 10.30;
- Correctly detects some old and rare versions of Enigma Virtual Box;
Updated EnigmaVB unpacker
Enigma Virtual Box unpacker
There are few minor fixes:
- Properly detects Enigma Virtual Box versions 10.00 and 10.10;
- Correctly unpacks zero-size files. Thanks to David for the bug report;
Solving 0x777h’s crackme
Ox777h's crackme was posted on Tuts4You forum in October 2022. Description said that it uses simple anti-debugging and code virtualization, so I decided to take a look.
In this post I'll describe how the protection works and steps I took to defeat it.
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How security plugins for Autoplay Media Studio fail, pt.2
Few weeks ago I wrote an article about misunderstood security in Autoplay Media Studio plugins. Two days later, author of DCrypto plugin released an updated version of the plugin. And just recently, he started to sell his plugin by making some pretty bold claims:
I present to you DCrypto with an advanced encryption that allows you to obfuscate your LUA 1.5 code in 256 Bit encryption with one of the best encryptions on the market, in addition to optimizing your source code, it will be protected with super protection.
Let's see how super this protection really is! 🙂
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