Recently got back into pirating, but I also want to make sure what I pirated is safe to use and doesn't have any trojen horses, backdoors, or any viruses.
>>1456743There will always be ways to hide sneaky shit in files. The best I've found to be safe is group consensus.So you use a tracker forum or cs rin or something like that, then look at the number of posts a poster has before downloading something they linked. Sure they could pull an exit scam after years of building a rep with 1000s of good posts, but that would only affect a handful of people before they get banned, so it's unlikely to happen.There's not really a convenient way to scan everything thoroughly. All the free or easy antivirus checkers are easy enough for a dedicated shithead to circumvent.
>>1456746Man, what about virtual machines? Should I try and open a program there and try and see if it has some kinf of problem?
>>1456748You could, though that would show if it's ransomware. But if it's a trojan or something more hidden then you'd have to autisticaly examine the average memory usage of the exe and compare it to the usage of a known safe copy of the same exe, which would be hard to do if you only have a pirated copy. Maybe you could compare the usage of multiple different torrents from different sources of the same exe and if they're all the same, then they're probably safe. Like I said though, no easy way to check everything. If you care a lot then best to just get a seperate pc specifically for only using pirated things, and never connect that pc to the Internet.
>>1456748The more elaborate malware can detect if it's running in a virtual machine so it doesn't activate its payload to avoid suspicion.There is only one 100% way to be safe here, and that's to run everything on a separate machine with no way to connect to the Internet.
>>1456750>run everything on a separate machine with no way to connect to the Internet.So basically get some cheap ass computer that I can use to run and test the valitidy of the software.Okay, so to test shit out, I'll probably go buy some cheat pc from a second hand store or drift store and try it out.
>>1456751I should have probably mentioned this but, I'm trying to find and download a pirated verson of adobe. Maybe something from 2017 or so. Cause no way can I afford the subscrption.
>>1456751>use to run and test the valitidy of the softwareI mean use the suspicious software entirely on the other computer, without it ever touching your main one where your important stuff is.
Hey OP are you still around? I'm going to tell you how to do it right, but not trying to waste my time. Let me know.
>>1456743Use the total virus site and upload the hash of the file you are looking at, it will compare it with a database of known malware. Also, if you make the change to Linux you are much less likely to get malware.
>>1456784Virustotal has a file size limit of around 650MB, that's its biggest problem
>>1456762Hey, I'm here. Just something came up and had to deal with it. What is it that you were gonna post?
>>1456814Ok, do you cracks, or keygens, or only serials or pre-cracked?Which ones do you use and which ones don't you use?Why don't you use those that you don't use?What would it take for you to something "good"?How do you rank those groups from most preferred to least preferred?
>>1456815Thats a lots of questions, but, I got nothing. Recently got this wanting to pirate again after a long time. Mostly cause now everything is so damn expensive.
>>1456817Oh ok. I slowed down with pirating a while back, but I still use the same methods.Look for serial stuff first, it's the most reliable. Second would be cracks and those should go through virustotal. Then would be keygens/patches which you'd use sandboxie to find the altered files/reg stuff that it needs and generate it, save it so you don't need to generate/patch it again.
Like others have said, it's pretty hard to be 100% sure. Being 100% sure means having to look inside of the program yourself with something like ghidra/ida, and unless you're ready to do that, well that's just not an option.Checking the hash is an alright solution, but this only works for something that's been out there for a bit. Virustotal won't do shit with newer uploads, given it will give you a different hash. It can get rid of the skiddie shit though, which is often in the wild. You're shit out of luck if the hacker used something more sophisticated, like a custom packer/cryptor. This is where shit gets hard to tell.The sandbox environment is also a good step. But the problem is that most malware makers out there actually try and check if you're inside a virtualized environment. If they realize they're inside a VM, they might do something different, and not boot up at all. It is possible to trick malware however, but unless you know what you're doing, this is not an option either.The last option I'd recommend is looking at your open sockets. This is a good way to tell if something fucked up is happening. You might think looking at running processes would be a good idea. The thing is that they do some really fucky shit to hide what they're doing, and unless you specifically know what you're looking for, you'll waste hours doing this. Open sockets are a good way to check what's going on, given most malware want to communicate with a C2 of some sort. This does require the malware to be run, so again, we're back at step 1.What I'd recommend for the average joe is to find a trustworthy community. Some people actually do what I just mentioned and will vet this shit for you. This is your best bet if you're not willing to do everything I just listed here. The absolute best of course is to not pirate shit, but I won't change your mind on this I believe. Good luck.
Kind of an unrelated questio n but on pirate bay what is the difference between a green skull and a pink skull next to a torrent?
>>1456835The skulls don't matter much, generally I wouldn't recommend you use a site like tpb or 1337x for anything other than media files like movies or music. Don't download programs from those sites if you want to be as safe as possible. Find a forum that posts about the sort of programs you want to torrent and lurk around there for magnet links from trusted users with a long post history
>>1456743>what I pirated is safe to useWell don't download from tpb for one. Just grab shit off rutracker instead as they actually some some form of quality control.
