Category Archives: CrackMe

Flare-On 9 – Task 8

For those of you who don’t know, Flare-On is an annual “reverse engineering marathon” organized by Mandiant (formerly by FireEye). It runs for 6 weeks, and contains usually 10-12 tasks of increasing difficulty. This year I completed as 103 (solves … Continue reading

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Flare-On 9 – Task 9

For those of you who don’t know, Flare-On is an annual “reverse engineering marathon” organized by Mandiant (formerly by FireEye). It runs for 6 weeks, and contains usually 10-12 tasks of increasing difficulty. This year I completed as 103 (solves … Continue reading

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Flare-On 9 – Task 10

For those of you who don’t know, Flare-On is an annual “reverse engineering marathon” organized by Mandiant (formerly by FireEye). It runs for 6 weeks, and contains usually 10-12 tasks of increasing difficulty. This year I completed as 103 (solves … Continue reading

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Flare-On 8 – Task 7

Flare-On is an annual “reverse engineering marathon” organized by Mandiant (formerly by FireEye). You can see more information here. It is a Capture-The-Flag type of a contest, where you are given a set of crackmes with growing difficulity. This year … Continue reading

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Flare-On 7 – Task 10

This year’s FlareOn was very interesting. I managed to finish it with 87th place. In this small series I will describe my favorite tasks, and how I solved them. I hope to provide some educational value for others, so this … Continue reading

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Flare-On 7 – Task 9

This year’s FlareOn was very interesting. I managed to finish it with 87th place. In this small series I will describe my favorite tasks, and how I solved them. I hope to provide some educational value for others, so this … Continue reading

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Flare-On 6 (tasks 10-12)

Flare-On 6 Flare-On Challenge is an annual competition organized by FireEye (the FLARE team). It is like a marathon of reverse engineering. Each year we get 12 crackmes of increasing difficulty to solve. You can download the tasks here. This … Continue reading

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White Rabbit crackme!

UPDATE: We already got the three winners. Good job guys! However, we are waiting for the writeups to select the reward for the best one – so if you are still in between of doing the crackme, don’t give up! … Continue reading

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Solving a PyInstaller-compiled crackme

I got this crackme from one of my readers, who asked me for the help in understanding how to solve it. As he wrote in the e-mail, it comes “from last year competition by the CheckPoint company”. I promised to … Continue reading

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Hook the planet! Solving FlareOn4 Challenge6 with libPeConv

Recently I started making a small library for loading and manipulating PE files (libpeconv – it’s open source, available on my GitHub). In my previous post, I demonstrated how the Challenge 3 from FlareOn4 could be solved with it’s help: … Continue reading

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