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53 lines
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## Difficulty
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medium - 300/500 punten
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(here you have to change binaries and understand how they work. This seems a little harder for most)
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## How To Solve
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There are probably many ways to solve this challenge, this is my solution.
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I'm assuming you already have some knowledge about the binary from the previous challenge
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I personally used GDB for this but other tools like ghidra that
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decompile your code might make your life easier.
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All the code that I patched was in the app_start function.
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The code tries to open a file called .keystore.
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If it fails it continues to the popup immediately
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So we need to make sure it thinks the .keystore exists.
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When reversing the code we see the c code probably looked like this:
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...
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FILE* fp = fopen(".keystore", "r");
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if (fp == NULL)
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{
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goto popup
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}
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...
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To bypass this if statement, I chose to change the "r" to "w". This way
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the fopen call will return a valid file pointer because it just created
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the .keystore to write to it. Another approach might be to change the if
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statement to jump to the popup if the fp is equal to 1 instead of equal 0.
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In GDB I can easily see the offset of the string so I simply changed the 'r'
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character to a 'w' with hexedit
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offset: 0x5004 0x72 to 0x77
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Now the rest of the code reads from the opened file (which will fail cause
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we just tricked it into thinking it exists) and checks if the key inside
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is valid. Again there are multiple ways to tackle this problem. I attacked
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the `cmpl $0x0,-0x1c(%rbp)` line. This checks if the return code of the
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check_is_key_valid is 0. If it is the code shows the popup. I changed this
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line to `cmpl $0x1,-0x1c(%rbp)`. Again with GDB I got the offset of the
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instruction and then I got the actual instruction by using `as` to compile
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`_start: cmpl $0x1,-0x1c(%rbp)` and reading the output with GDB.
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offset: 0x36da 0x00e47d83 to 0x01e47d83
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After that the program is successfully patched and runs without asking for a
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license check so we can give it to grandma and she will draw our key for us.
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## Flag
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IGCTF{AY_4Y_C4PT4IN}
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