Cool Beans (License Challenge)

Good evening everyone,

I’ve put together my first CrackMe using DNGuard 4.94 and its License Management feature.

The application is called “Cool Beans.exe” - terrible name, I know 😄
Once cracked successfully, you’ll be taken to the main form, which displays a (slightly stupid) message.

Hope you enjoy taking a look.
Cheers 🍻

🔐 DNGuard 4.94 Protections Used

Encryption

• Encrypt compiler-generated code

• Encrypt .ctor (constructor) methods

• Encrypt blob heaps

• Encrypt strings

HVM (Hardware Virtual Machine) Protection

• Enable HVM technology

• HVM Code Protection Level: 5

• HVM II technology enabled

• HVM II Level: 5

• HVM protection for method LocalVarSigTok

• HVM proxy methods

• Illegal HVM action prevention

Obfuscation

• Destroy name heaps of metadata

• Metadata obfuscation

• Automatic renaming

• Dynamic control flow obfuscation

Anti-Analysis / Runtime Protections

• Anti-Dump protection

• Run application in Shadow AppDomain

• Suppress IL disassembly tools

• Anti-other static decompilers

• Avoid illegal JIT action