OP 13 March, 2023 - 11:35 AM
Hi everyone.
For the last 3 or 4 months I've been into reverse engineering and trying to decompile, analyse binaries (using Ghidra and some other helpful tools).
One week ago, I saw that one application in Google Play and saw that every lesson is paid and I decided to test my skills on that application. Also while downloading the app, the file size caught my attention, it was big. I decompiled the application and tried to find the biggest file. I found the file (Unity's TextAsset) but it was encrypted. I analyzed the binary (it was a IL2CPP Unity app) to find the encryption and the encryption key. After some painful hours, I decrypted the "TextAsset" (which is a way that Unity stores, well text assets, it's normally not encrypted but the developers of the app decided to encrypt that).
Anyways after decrypting I saw that all of the lessons were there (with a horrible data structure). I cleaned the data by using some Python scripts and got lot's of JSON file which has all the content in a pretty way.
After doing these, I decided to put these lessons online for free (my goal was to put not distracting ads to around the content and bank). I've created a dummy website (not connected to the domain, for now).
Now, I am in a dilemma. Should I paraphrase the contents and publish it, or do nothing. I am more close to the first option but it's against their terms of service and this f*ckin' company is monopoly in their niche (meaning that they could find my website, or not idk). Can you guys give me some reasonable ideas?
For the last 3 or 4 months I've been into reverse engineering and trying to decompile, analyse binaries (using Ghidra and some other helpful tools).
One week ago, I saw that one application in Google Play and saw that every lesson is paid and I decided to test my skills on that application. Also while downloading the app, the file size caught my attention, it was big. I decompiled the application and tried to find the biggest file. I found the file (Unity's TextAsset) but it was encrypted. I analyzed the binary (it was a IL2CPP Unity app) to find the encryption and the encryption key. After some painful hours, I decrypted the "TextAsset" (which is a way that Unity stores, well text assets, it's normally not encrypted but the developers of the app decided to encrypt that).
Anyways after decrypting I saw that all of the lessons were there (with a horrible data structure). I cleaned the data by using some Python scripts and got lot's of JSON file which has all the content in a pretty way.
After doing these, I decided to put these lessons online for free (my goal was to put not distracting ads to around the content and bank). I've created a dummy website (not connected to the domain, for now).
Now, I am in a dilemma. Should I paraphrase the contents and publish it, or do nothing. I am more close to the first option but it's against their terms of service and this f*ckin' company is monopoly in their niche (meaning that they could find my website, or not idk). Can you guys give me some reasonable ideas?