hackyou CTF: Reversing 200

This challenge presents you with a random number guesser where the user has to guess a randomly generated number. The good thing about this is that it does not use what we enter to generate the key. The relevant assembly is shown below.

The easy way to do this is to switch the comparison to something simpler.

cmp     eax, ecx
cmp     eax, eax

This changes the hexidecimal from 39 C8 to 39 C0 (Intel x86 opcode). A screenshot of the hex that we are looking to change is shown below.

When the C8 is changed to a C0, the program thinks that we win always and it spits out the key, oh_you_cheat3r.

-- suntzu_II