Life In Hex

On 17-Jul-2026 an obscure security outfit Searchlight Cyber published their discovery: wp2shell - remote code execution in recent WordPress versions.

It's been quiet here for more than a year.

For some weird and inexplicable reason, every year there are plenty of IT-related advent challenges.

I'm sorry.

Enigma Virtual Box authors made some changes in version 10.70 and broke my unpacker again. 🙁 To be able to support more and more versions, my unpacker requires some serious redesign.

To start new year on a positive note, here's a new version of my Enigma Virtual Box unpacker.

It's taken over a year but the medal for 2022 contest is finally in my hands. 🙂 This time organizers had to deal with some manufacturing issues (which took them a full year to resolve), and I had to deal with overly zealous customs and taxes office.

Enigma Virtual Box unpacker There are few minor fixes: Now it can unpack Enigma Virtual Box versions 10.20 and 10.30; Correctly detects some old and rare versions of Enigma Virtual Box; Download here: Enigma Virtual Box Unpacker v0.61

Enigma Virtual Box unpacker There are few minor fixes: Properly detects Enigma Virtual Box versions 10.00 and 10.10; Correctly unpacks zero-size files.

Ox777h's crackme was posted on Tuts4You forum in October 2022.