Tools of the Trade 

Debuggers

 
Filename
Comment
Size
SoftICE 3.24 for Windows 9x  The latest version of the BEST debugger
2,835 KB
SoftICE 3.24 for Windows NT   
2,835 KB
icedump4 A SoftICE add-on programmed by the_owl. It can dump memory into a file for later examination. For SoftICE 3.22 and 3.23. Very valuable for unpacking files.
17,597
SoftICE 3.23 Full for Windows 9x  
2,851,789
SoftICE 3.23 for Windows NT   
2,854,126
SoftICE 3.23 manual Both command reference and user's guide. Newest version.
1,667,269
SoftICE 3.22 Upgrade for Windows 95 Best debugger. A MUST for real crackers. Note that this is the upgrade version so you must have SoftICE 3.20  installed on your system.
1,638,154
SoftICE 3.22 Upgrade for Windows NT   
1,536,315
SoftICE 3.20 for Windows 95   
1,984,653
SoftICE 3.20 for Windows NT   
1,975,819
SoftICE 1.52 for Windows 3.1   
636,887
SoftICE 2.80 for DOS  
177,134
SoftICE 2.62 for DOS  
222,850
SoftICE Documentation for DOS  
218,776
SoftICE Documentation for Windows 3.1  
145,724
SoftICE 3.0 User Guide Teach you how to use SoftICE. Written in PDF format. Must own Adobe Acrobat Reader to be able to view it.
1,062,516
SoftICE 3.0 Command Reference   
3,281,502
SoftICE Tool for DOS DOS version of the valuable tool.
42,263
SoftICE Tool for Windows Very cool utility, written by The_Owl and LordByte. Can hide SoftICE from detection. A must for serious crackers
222,533
WDeb386 Not as powerful as SoftICE but good nonetheless
793,356
Turbo Debugger Easy to use. Cool for debugging DOS. Nearly useless for Windows.
1,611,386
Super Tracer (TRW) 0.62 A nice debugger from LiuTaoTao. Can debug dos and PE programs. The author's hompage here.
170,246
Super Tracer (TRW) 0.60  
172,074
Super Tracer 0.56  
152KB

Disassemblers

 
Filename
Comment
Size
W32Dasm 8.93 One of the best disassemblers. Can disassemble both Win16 and Win32 proggies. Recommended.
1,004,519
IDA Pro 3.80b [disk1] [disk2] [disk3] [disk4] [disk5] [disk6] [disk7] [disk8] [disk9] [disk10] The latest version of the most powerful  disassembler in the world. Revision B. Fix some bugs in 3.80a
11,415,410
IDAsym Converts IDA map file to a SoftIce SYM file.
3,810
Sourcer 7.0 with Windows Source  Best DOS disassembler. Windows Source is included for disassembling Windows program. 
1,010,441
Visual Basic 3 Discompiler  A MUST for cracking VB3 proggies
1,350,032
VB3 Discompler Add-on allow VB3 Decompiler to recognize another 
80+ VBX files.
190,575
Visual Basic 4 Discompiler Not as good as the VB3 version. :-(
4,885,374
Borland Resource Workshop 4.5  Adjunct tool for reverser. Let you see and modify resources such as dialog, menu, string tables, etc.
933,149
Symantec ResourceStudio A great resource editor. A bit slow though.
1,858,427
Refox 7.06 The only one that can decompile Fox proggies back to source code.
1,113,239
Help Decompiler 2.1 Decompile help file back to source code. Can bypass help file password protection.
222,165
Windows InstallShield Decompiler v.1.00 beta A great tool that lets you see what is inside setup.ins.
1,052,922
Isdcc 1.22  The installshield decompiler
56,309

Unpackers

 
Filename
Comment
Size
Procdump 1.3.0 The best generic Win32 unpacker around. 
81,233
PE-Prot 0.9 Unpacker Unpacker for PE-Prot 0.9. Coded by lorian of ucf.
19,487
PE-LockNT Unpacker This is the unpacker for PE-LockNT , one of the most secure pe encrypter in the field, on the same par as PE-Crypt. : ) And now, it can unlock every version of PE-LockNT!
56,168
Bye,PE-Crypt 1.02Update! The unpacker for PE-Crypt 1.02. Can decrypt any files encrypted by PE-Crypt 1.02, including DLLs. C0ded entirely in win32asm by Iczelion & Plushmm.Update: Improved pecrypted file detection routine. It now detects only the files it can decrypt. Notes: There are many modified version of pecrypt 1.01 masqueraded as 1.02 and modifed 1.02. So we cannot guarantee that it will work for ALL pecrypted files. Download PE-Crypt 1.02 here. And please read an important notice about Bye,PE-Crypt 1.02 here.
16,816
tmtpack unpacker Unpacker for tmtpack
17,251
CUP 3.4 Best Universal Unpacker around. Can unpack unknown compression scheme since it uses generic unpacking method.
49,698
Unp 4.12b  
22,017
Up Old but still useful.(DOS)
209,051
UPC 1.11  DOS
6,517
DumpEXE Designed specifically for use with SoftICE for DOS. Can unpack ANY compression/encryption scheme. The limit is user's skill and knowledge. 
No Windows counterpart is released yet.
33,233
ProcDump32 v 1.2.0  Universal PE unpacker. Very good. Not for a complete beginner though.
63,396
InstallShield 5 Decompressor  
76,162

Other Utilities

 
Filename
Comment
 Size
DumpPE Let you see what's inside Portable Executable file. A MUST if you want to modify/augment the functionality of target programs. Latest version.
103,173
DumpLX Like DumpPE but for Linear Executable format which is used by VxD
101,204
Win-eXpose I/O 2.00 Monitor transfer of data to and from I/O port. Great for debugging dongles. Endorsed by +Aesculapius
1,182,945
Win-eXpose Registry Monitor the use of registry. Let you see how target programs use registry. Endorsed by +Aesculapius
1,180,539
Hacker's View 6.01  
342,032
Hacker's View 6.00 A good hex editor  
SmartCheck 6.01  [disk1] [disk2] [disk3] [disk4] [disk5] [disk6] [disk7] Excellent program flow analyzer by the gurus at NuMega. Originally designed to analyze VB proggies but can be used with any Win32 programs too. A MUST for advanced reverser.   
BoundsChecker 6.01 Standard version  [disk1] [disk2] [disk3] [disk4] [disk5] [disk6] [disk7] [disk8] Newest Version. Fast link now!  
BoundsChecker 6.01 for Delphi [disk1] [disk2] [disk3] [disk4] [disk5] [disk6] [disk7] [disk8]     
SMU WinSpector  A simple and useful program that shows information about the window the mouse pointer is at, including window handle, class name, module name etc. Very useful in removing nag screens. Requires VB5 runtime library, MSVBVM50.DLL
4,927
Sinfo 2.04 System information for Windows 95.A very useful utility that lets you see and manage processes, threads, modules and windows. see its web page.
745,715
The Customizer  A wonderful tool that can enable grayed out buttons, display passwords and lets you customize nearly everything about the target window. This is the full retail version. Not the crippled one!
1,048,218
Keygen source codes A collection of keygen source codes in Pascal and assembly by a good cracker, ^hayras^.
46,794
FC32 beta A nice and fast file compare utility by Plushmm and The+Q. Can generate patch output. Written in win32asm.
91,090
NaGKill 1.0 The first generic nag screen killer. Can kill almost all types of nag screens even random ones. Coded by Plushmm and Iczelion
129,916
UPX  0.50b UPX is a portable, extensible, high-performance executable packer for several different executable formats. It achieves an excellent compression ratio and offers *very* fast decompression.
110,527

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