Obfuscating & Packing

[shadowman123]

Well i've know alot of Obfuscators that can be used to obfuscate my project ... so the question here which is the best obfuscator to use all obfuscators i know are :-
1 - SmartAssembly
2 - .Net Reactor
3 - Crypto Obfuscator

which one of them is the best to use .. and would smthing wrong happen if i obfuscated my Project with more than 1 Obfuscator ?

i heard that using even 1 obfuscator could lead to UnExpected Problems to happen if used so i'd like to know if thats right or not ?

i've read that Packers ( packing All project Dlls and Files into 1 Executable file ) are increasing the performance of the Project.. i'd like to know if thats is Right or the packers Are just A lie to gain money..

regards
shadowman123

[c0w]

a obfuscator just rewrites names of variables and functions and stuff, so the best to use is one, not much ppl know. since a lot of the well known obfuscators can be deobfuscated by software, you should check out our forums about this. there might be a few selfcreated ones

[shadowman123]

i'd like to which one of the mentioned above obfuscators are best to use
is there a reflector that can De-Obfuscate the Project ? if so .. y are these Obfuscators still exist ..
what can i do in order to prevent my project from being debugged by crackers ?

[abdoumatrix]

eazfuscator , SmartAssembly , Safengine Shielden or private one.

Originally Posted by shadowman123

i'd like to which one of the mentioned above obfuscators are best to use
is there a reflector that can De-Obfuscate the Project ? if so .. y are these Obfuscators still exist ..
what can i do in order to prevent my project from being debugged by crackers ?

serach for de4dot and see its list and try to get one that isn't in the list.

[Spirited]

You can ask RedGate for a free student license for their full version obfuscator. The license expires after a year, but it's really nice to protect your work as a student and learn how to work with obfuscation software.

[_DreadNought_]

de4dot is what alot use, I would through personal experience suggest Smart Assembly; simply because while de4dot did crack the version I was playing with(about a year ago) it didn't do a good job, it was still kinda-unreadable, I just got a fairly good idea what the code was doing.

[shadowman123]

**** .. after Checking de4dot ... i got disappointed a bit it can De-obfuscate almost all the obfuscators .. even the SmartAssembly

[Super Aids]

Smart Assembly has lots of deobfuscators, just saying. Make your own if you want to be on the good side, BUT requires quite some experiences and knowledge in reflection to make one, otherwise you're better off using existing once, but remember in the end you're never 100% protected. Your code can still be reflected with an obfuscator.

The same goes with packing, it's probably even more useless as you can just unpack the executable and usually packing an executable might trigger false positives at AV's.

[abdoumatrix]

u should use Eazfuscator.NET 3.5 - 3.6 or SmartAssembly or Safengine Shielden.

Eazfuscator.NET 3.5 - 3.6 or SmartAssembly can easily deobfuscators but some times the reflected codes become unreadable.
(but any one have a good sense could get the codes and make it readable for him)
(u can use Reflector Add-in and simply change some codes inside the exe).

Safengine Shielden is better as it become invaild with reflector and olly but some experts could crack him (like megamax do.)
(some pc a problem while running the protected exe.)


some anyway u will get disappointed by somehow.

[shadowman123]

idc who can crack it.... but what i mean is since all these Dumb Companies have been cracked why are they still alive .. since any good 1 can crack / break sm1's Projects ....

[abdoumatrix]

Originally Posted by shadowman123

idc who can crack it.... but what i mean is since all these Dumb Companies have been cracked why are they still alive .. since any good 1 can crack / break sm1's Projects ....

Cuz 1 in 1000 could do this job.
and they improve their ways in each ver.
and some could be fully un-readable. and too hard to get any thing from codes.

the perfect way to know the best for u.
is to try each one of them and crack it and the most un-readable codes u get
this will be ur one.

if u can't ur own codes from the decompiled. how could them.

[atef201080]

those obfuscators just renaming the classes and variables names and everything, and its good nice somehow, the codes become unreadable but you need to know how it works to obfuscate(rename) the whole project and classes not only the main program entry, and yes you can use multiple obfuscators and even the same obfuscator multiple times.

[shadowman123]

Originally Posted by atef201080

those obfuscators just renaming the classes and variables names and everything, and its good nice somehow, the codes become unreadable but you need to know how it works to obfuscate(rename) the whole project and classes not only the main program entry, and yes you can use multiple obfuscators and even the same obfuscator multiple times.

but since there are alot of De-obfuscators it would be useless to use more than one Obfuscator.. Right ?

[abdoumatrix]

wanna the best method?

use eazfuscator then SmartAssembly then safengine(NoobyProtect).

No one could break this (only the expert of the experts ).

[Super Aids]

Originally Posted by abdoumatrix

wanna the best method?

use eazfuscator then SmartAssembly then safengine(NoobyProtect).

No one could break this (only the expert of the experts ).

LOL no. Sadly you're very mistaken and the executable might end up broken.