Also if you have the original file (most cracked software conveniently provides the crack separately) you can run something like ida + diaphora[0] and see the w

Also if you have the original file (most cracked software conveniently provides the crack separately) you can run something like ida + diaphora[0] and see the work the crackers did nicely isolated. Sometimes its little as altering a single conditional jump. [0]: https://github.com/joxeankoret/diaphora https://github.com/joxeankoret/diaphora