Suhdudes. I’m back with another challenge but it will be different because this will be designed for Windows! Another thing I will be doing is a kind of “series” with these crackmes where each successive one will get incrementally more difficult. I will also supply research material (to replace hints) to help give you newbies a push into the very expansive world of Windows. Hope you’ll enjoy these and happy hacking!

Backstory

A wannabe software developer who goes by the alias edgyReggie wants to make some money through selling his newest software, titled Nothing Really Epic, Pretty Lousy Software (NoREpls for short), to fund his college fees. Unfortunately, he has couple of problems… The first is that he does not want people to pirate his software, otherwise all of his hard work and effort would be for nothing! Which leads us to the second problem… Since he’s a broke college student, he doesn’t have the cash to hire professionals to audit his protection mechanisms! Luckily for him, he has found the 0x00sec forums and kindly requests that the friendly community aid him in testing his software. Will you help poor little edgyReggie out?

Difficulty

Author Assigned Level: Newbie

Community Assigned Level:

Newbie

Wannabe

Hacker

Wizard

Guru 0 voters

Goal

Your goal is to achieve the “full” version of the software, i.e. removing all nags that you see.

Rules of Engagement

None.

Research Material

Binary

Preview (look and design may not be accurate):

MediaFire - http://www.mediafire.com/file/h789ga3v3gxv9vr/NoREpls.exe

VirusTotal - https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/6adb6cd98c6da46ffe39ff8b5fe10634358cdc48c432369edd06f939be596bd2/analysis/1500375245/

Good luck!