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PostPosted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 8:49 pm    Post subject: Decompiling a .dll Reply with quote

How would I go about decompiling a .dll, not knowing what it was made in and compiled with?
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 9:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

you can't decompile.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 10:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh, thanks anyways.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 12:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

sponge wrote:
you can't decompile.


Depends on the language it's written in.

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 1:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

using decompilers from "google" you can see what the code means, but not the code itself
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 3:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think he means "dissasembled".

If it's in .NET, you should use Lutz Roeder's disassebler (Gewgle), if not, then try OllyDBG or CE, but I'm not sure where it'll get you

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 4:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

samuri25404 wrote:
I think he means "dissasembled".

If it's in .NET, you should use Lutz Roeder's disassebler (Gewgle), if not, then try OllyDBG or CE, but I'm not sure where it'll get you


There are tons of decompilers for .NET (C#, VB, etc.) which will decompile all the way back to the source. (It might not be 100% the same, but it is close enough to understand fully.)

For other languages, there are decompilers that either wont get as far and tell you basics, along with some disassembling but not the full source. VB6 would be one of these languages. You can decompile enough to obtain the object names, some of the strings, the API calls, and a few other things, but you wont get back to the full source.

For example, a VB6 project:

Code:
Option Explicit

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    If 1 = 1 Then
        MsgBox "1 equals 1!"
    End If
End Sub


Very basic, the most you will get from this is something like:
Code:
Private Sub Command1_Click() '4019D0
  loc_004019F5: var_08 = &H401080
  loc_00401A01: and ecx, 00000001h
  loc_00401A04: var_04 = arg_08
  loc_00401A07: and al, FEh
  loc_00401A0A: arg_08 = arg_08
  loc_00401A0F: call edx+04h(arg_08, edi, esi, ebx, fs:[00h], MSVBVM60.DLL.__vbaExceptHandler, ebp)
  loc_00401A19: var_4C = 80020004h
  loc_00401A21: var_3C = 80020004h
  loc_00401A24: var_2C = 80020004h
  loc_00401A45: var_5C = "1 equals 1!"
  loc_00401A4C: var_64 = 8
  loc_00401A6A: MsgBox("1 equals 1!", esi, 10, 10, 10)
  loc_00401A93: GoTo loc_401AB1
  loc_00401AB0: ret
  loc_00401AB1: 'Referenced from 00401A93
  loc_00401AB1: ret
  loc_00401AB8: call ecx+08h(arg_08)
  loc_00401ACE: retn 0004h
End Sub


Other languages are similar as well, such as Delphi.

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