I wrote about Moonton game protection in November 2018. It was a pretty boring protection, so I quickly forgot about that. In January 2019 Moonton devs decided to change their protection. I'm not sure if it's a coincidence or not - but here's the update anyway.

This analysis covers:

• Mobile Legends: Bang Bang

specifically versions from 1.3.37 upto 1.3.47 (latest at the time of writing). All other games that I mentioned in my previous post haven't been updated, or are still using the old protection mechanism.

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This is Part 3 of the series about tricks in PE file format used by Unity3D-based games and cheats.

In Part 1 I analyzed some basic tricks used by Android game modders and ways how to defeat them. In Part 2 I covered more tricks used by modding teams and traced their origins to obscure Chinese Android games.

This part will cover tricks used by game developer Moonton in their games:

• Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
• Mobile Battleground - Blitz
• Mobile Battleground: Frontline (currently removed from Google Play)
• Hoop Legends: Slam Dunk
• Puzzle Ark

All games use modified versions of libmono.so containing few tricks that nobody else uses. Different versions of libraries have slightly different ways of implementing these tricks, most of my analysis is based on Mobile Legends: Bang Bang v1.3.25.3323.

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