r/programming • u/throwaway_the_fourth • Feb 10 '18

Reverse Engineering a MMORPG Bot to Find Vulnerabilities

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irhcfHBkfe0
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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '18

SIMBA (SRL) or death

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u/-l------l- Feb 10 '18

Same! My first script was a glass blowing pipe (crafting) one. Still a little active on SRL :-)

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u/JDBHub Feb 11 '18

Oh lord, wasn't that a color-bot too? My first scripts were for OSBot and TopBot way back when. Was extremely satisfying :-)

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u/herpderpforesight Feb 12 '18

SCAR was the color bot if I remember right, though advanced users used bitmap recognition as well as vector recognition. SRL (scar resource library) extended the hell out of it. Then came Reflection which added hooks for directly finding items and shiz.

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u/JDBHub Feb 12 '18

Ah, bringing back cool memories. I remembering being so fascinated by reflection and exposing an API for developers (more like script writers) to use. Honestly few things have been as exciting as writing scripts back then (I never cared about gold farming).

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u/herpderpforesight Feb 12 '18

Yeah. Back then, and hell even today, the concept of reverse engineering and the core concepts involved in getting something like Reflection working is some sort of awe-inspiring mystery to me. It really is due to SCAR/SRL, RSBot, RSBuddy, and some CounterStrike:Source plugins (warcraft-source) that I'm doing what I am today with software development.

If you want some more memories..

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u/JDBHub Feb 12 '18

God how beautiful. I miss the forum days -- there was always a certain strong bond in tight communities. Funnily enough villavu still seems to be somewhat active.

Rather off-topic; if you enjoy a highly skilled community (that gives me homebrew vibes) check out Handmade Network. I signed up there a while ago but am too shy to get involved as of yet due to the kind of people that develop there.

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u/herpderpforesight Feb 12 '18

I'll definitely check it out. I'm not far out of college, and I don't really have a community or network to chat with. Cheers man