For the password, we may be able to find it in the text strings lying around the file itself. To get a list of strings from the file, we'll need to use SysInternal Suite's Strings (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/strings). Strings is a console-based tool. The list of strings at the output are printed out on the console.
The source code for this program can be found at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Mastering-Reverse-Engineering/blob/master/ch7/passcode.c.
We should redirect the output to a text file by running it as strings.exe passcode.exe > strings.txt:
Regardless, we still get a wrong password when ...
