Questions tagged [unpacking]
Reverting (statically or dynamically) the effect of a binary packer: recovering its original structure and code by removing compression, encryption, protections features..
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WebAssembly Unity base64 decipher
When in game (taming.io) going to leaderboard and searching a player id lets say: 1. It renders player data retrieved from here just fine:
https://account.taming.io/player?id=1
If I type this url (get ...
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How to extract ucas and utoc io store container files in unreal engine 5
I tried to use different programs for this, such as fmodel and UnrealPakViewer, but fmodel support only utoc, so I can extract only some part of files and it does not support binka audio files. ...
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Modifying a single .class file in an obfuscated JAR
i am trying to modify a jar that is partly obfuscated (and what i want to modify is in this part).
I can use Recaf, it will decompile it well and I can save modifications and export program without ...
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UPX Unpacking tool
Firstly, thank you for your answer.
What is the best unpacking tool to use to unpack - UPX 0.89.6 - 1.02 / 1.05 - 1.24 ->[Overlay] could you please provide a link so i can obtain as such.
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how can i rip zuma's revenge sprites from the nintendo ds rom?
opening the bin file as a tile in tinke gives me the following:
there are just random pixels that don't contain any useful sprites
and it's the same if i open the file in gimp
my directory for the ...
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How to unpack emotet with x64dbg and do dynamic analysis?
I am a beginner at malware analysis. I have been trying to analyze Emotet using X64DBG. I followed the steps below and succeeded once, but when I repeated the same steps, I failed. Can you tell me if ...
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Need help extracting AP_Pack .obb files
I'm trying to extract the files for the series of 4 games - Sorcery!, which are in the format .obb.
Thanks to a Hex editor I saw that the .obb was an AP_Pack, and looking for more information on the ...
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Reverse engineering a flutter built apk
I was trying to reverse engineer an apk built with flutter. I actually feel like reversing flutter built apps did not get much reverse writeups on the community. one of the tools for the task ...
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WinDbg Preview search is not returning results
I am attempting to manually unpack a malware sample. I am using the new WinDbg Preview (only thing that is available to download now). After letting the malware call VirtualAlloc I am trying to search ...
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Extract assets images from a games APK [closed]
I'm trying to remove some images from an android game, but when I try to view them in a hexadecimal viewer I see that they don't contain a PNG header, so I can't view them through the python PIL ...
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How to use dnSpyEx or some other .NET debugger to attach to a .NET process started with a process-hollowing technique?
I have a .NET executable that is started using the process-hollowing technique. Here's how it looks from the Detect-It-Easy tool:
I can open the image file for that process (from disk) with dnSpyEx, ...
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How do I reverse an exe packed with an unknown packer?
I got an assignment to analize an exe file with 97% entropy. It's obviously packed but I got no results from Protection Id or PEid about which packer it used...
How can I unpack it if it's possible? ...
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unpack ZXIC chip firmware
Is it possible to unpack this firmware for ZXIC chipset device?
I tried to unpack it with binwalk but wasn't successful and I saw this information:
DECIMAL HEXADECIMAL DESCRIPTION
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Trying to learn more about unpacking
I am working on getting better with concepts of unpacking manually to get more clarity on understanding packing routines and decryption logic, so I am trying a few tutorials on PESpin! Previously I ...
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How exactly Hex editor is used?
I'm new to reverse engineering. So I decided to start with some game files in my computer. The main goal was to understand how hex editor used to identify files and extract needed data.
In my case I ...
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VMProtect Anti-debugging method (without WiNAPI)
First, sorry for my bad english.
I'm trying to make VMProtect unpacker with unicorn emulator, but one of my sample shows me like this anti-debugging message:
WTSSendMessageW: "A debugger has been ...
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How to print disassembly code with IDAPython when IDA doesn’t detect it as code
I have a piece of malware for windows / x64 which is packed, so IDA only recognizes the unpacker routine as data. This is the aspect of the zone just after loading the binary in IDA:
I want to print ...
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help me to debug file packed with molebox and proteced with obsidium
I have a exe file that packed with molebox and protected with obsidium.
I try to unpack it with demoleition but it has some problem. when I want to open the unpacked file
it says "Component '...
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How to debug / analyze a Themida protected binary
Background: I have an application that has worked fine up until Windows 10 build 1511 but broke as of build 1607. It produces an access violation:
STACK_TEXT:
03799f54 00f91cfa 24d1ae78 0000000f ...
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Reconstructing "relative" import functions in IDA
Apologies in advance if any premises of my question are incorrect, I'm rebuilding imports for the first time and I'm frankly pretty overwhelmed.
I'm reverse engineering a packed win32 executable, so I ...
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What is unpack? how to become professional Unpacker?
I asked a lot of questions in this forum about RE and I am a beginner who is very interested in reverse engineering. (i am learning the RE with Lena151)
What is unpack?
Which tools need to unpack a ...
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Only some files are unpacked while firmware reversing with binwalk tool
I am reversing a firmware with binwalk.
Unpacking was succeed, but I can't find my target files. (CGI files in www folder)
When I connect to the web page of my router, I can see links include CGI ...
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How to modify checksum after making changes in Nokia 215 4G firmware?
If I change any character in the firmware file and try to flash it, it will failed. But it will successfully flashed if I changed the string with the same number of character if it's not a function.
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Unpacking NSISbi compressed data
I'm trying to figure out how to unpack the payload data made by NSISbi for of NSIS that adds support for installer size > 2GB.
Here is an example installer:
https://download.unity3d.com/...
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Reverse engineering a .byte file format
I've dug into files of a game that was made in Unity (which uses C# language)... and i was interested in extracting 3D models and textures etc. I understand that data and obb are separate, BUT! In my ...
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Rebuild IAT after manually unpacking DLL
I've been trying to unpack this dll and I'm pretty sure that 0x7c3ea902 or 0x1007A9D2 (ASLR disabled) or simply 0x7A9D2 is OEP.
But after dumping with OllyDumpEx and trying to fix IAT with ImpREC it ...
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How to dump heap from packed program (unpack asprotect)
I have a packed program. I have found the oep of the program but the problem is every call to the system dll like kernel32, user32, ... change to a call to the heap. So the packer first allocate a big ...
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How to keep symbols when taking memory snapshot with IDA?
When i take memory snapshot with IDA to try to analyze it statically later, the problem is there are a lot of symbols that get lost when i dump the memory, how can i solve this?
for example this is ...
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Question about unpacking
thank for reading, i'm a beginner trying to learn Malware Analysis and Reverse Engineering, at the moment I readed the book "Learning Malware Analysis", I fully understand it, but there is ...
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can't extract a lzma compressed file
hello i want to do the reverse engineering. for tp linkTD-W8961ND_V3 firmware
here is the output
DECIMAL HEXADECIMAL DESCRIPTION
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Binwalk on flash dump yielding useless files and empty file systems
I have been investigating some routers by desoldering their nand flash and dumping them using a flash programmer.
However when I use binwalk on these dumps I end up with fragments of files mixed in ...
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Unpacking or split .BIN firmware for router device
Sorry for my question, i'm newbie! so i'm trying to split or unpack this file mobile_update.bin, it is an firmware for routeur device.
(Based on qualcomm 9x07 and secureboot device also), i'm trying ...
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What kind of integer obfuscation is this?
I'm looking at the network traffic of a game submitting the user's score to the high-score server. The score value seems to be obfuscated in some way.
The score is a non-negative integer, and not more ...
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Reconstructing a PE from unpacked memory in IDA
I’m trying to byte patch a 12 year old program written in MS Visual C++ V9. However, some of its code has been packed with ‘Lock Express V2.0’. I’ve loaded the executable in IDA and run the Universal ...
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Decrypt application protocol packet
I have several applications that interact with the network, but the data is encrypted. I set breakpoints on send ws2_32.dll and found the correct buffer in which the encrypted data was located (then I ...
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Problems with relocation when unpacking
I'm trying to learn how to do basic unpacking EXEs. I've read into how the PE header works, sections, the IAT and I already know a fair bit about assembly.
I started with compressing my simple x64....
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Force debug Administrator Malware
I want to analyse a malware that do not run without administrative previliges.
I know it is risky but still.
How can I debug it with debugger as from entry point?
Because debugger could not start ...
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Specifying DLL imports within the PE?
I have unpacked and dumped a dll that uses a custom IAT to resolve Win32 API calls (143 of them).
Is there anyway to modify the dumped dll PE to include these imports dynamcially and forward their ...
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Reversing Pyarmor Discussion
Anyone messing around with pyarmor recently? For those of you that are unaware of what pyarmor is, its a protection software that is to help obfuscate and protect your software. Heres an image of what ...
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IDA fails to recognize the new added segment during execution and seems to think its empty?
So i dumped a PE file after it was unpacked, but the problem is it references another section in the memory map, so i dumped that section and added it to IDA just like this question :
IDA Pro - Load ...
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Invalid file path error while trying to rebuild with apktool and aapt2
I am facing an error while try to repack an apk with apkool. below is the error trace.
W: error: invalid file path 'C:\Users\ccre\res\drawable2\abc_ic_search_api_material.xml'.
W: error: invalid file ...
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What is the header 'X-Goog-Spatula'?
I am blackboxing an android app to write an API for it. Many of the HTTP requests sent include a mysterious header with the name X-Goog-Spatula. If I do not include this structure, the request is not ...
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Extracting specific files from a unknown archive file format
I'm trying to extract some binary blobs from a unknown archive format. (*.pakz).
I know this archive contains some .xtreme binary files that are the files I'm looking for. My goal is to extract those ...
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How to load a library at a specific address in IDA and re-analyze the program statically?
I have a dumped PE that has calls like
call ds:dword_4010B4
now these are actually addresses of APIs in kernel32.dll
my problem is IDA doesn't know that these are kernel32 APIs and therefore in ...
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How to dump a unpacked PE and still get the API names with IDA when they are called directly?
So i have a PE that unpacks itself and rewrites the entrypoint and so on (not the header)
i unpacked it using scylla and x32dbg, i set the OEP to the previous OEP since it writes the unpacked one ...
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How to extract an unknown archive files? (umd "I am alive" PC)
I'm trying to extract game files which contains textures, meshes etc. I wanted to see how hard would it be to make a texture mod. I just have knowledge on editing graphics from school and youtube ...
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The executable file makes a unique ID from each individual PC. Can anyone decipher from where the file makes these unique IDs?
The file generates random unique ID. It says hardware ID but I couldn't find it in product key, BIOS serial number or anywhere. I used IDA but I couldn't get from where the file creates the code. Even ...
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How can I retrieve image files embedded/compressed in a MPL file?
There are some images hidden somewhere in a PE I have, I can't figure out how to extract them.
This PE is from around 1997 (I think it's 32 bit) and I believe it contains some 3D model renders from ...
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convert NPRG9x07.mbn to NPRG9x07.bin
Hello i have qualcomm based bootloader for mdm9x07 platform i want to convert to bin format but i did not find any script that does the conversion
here are the mbn files : NPRG9x07.mbn2
ENPRG9x07....
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How to execute an import exe/dll from memory
i dumped a exe/dll file from the memory with OllyDumpEx, now i understand i need to fix the address or something like this to use the dll or to run the exe, so how can i do that?
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