Hints for Patching EXEs with Ollydbg
Hint 1: Patch Better
Don't settle for the patched file
from the instructions. Modify it
more so you don't even have to guess the
launch code at all.
Hint 2: Automatic Patching with Python
You can
install Python on Windows
to easily
automate tasks.
Suppose I have a file containing eight bytes
like this:
And I want to change one byte to 10 like this:
This Python script does that job:
Here's how to run it:
Hint 3: Automating Execution with Python
Here's a Python script that runs the
command line command whoami
and appends the output to a file named
"out.txt".
Hint 4: Processing All Files in a Directory
Here's a Python script that
prints all the filenames in a directory.
Modified 12-22-17