Instead, I can offer legitimate alternatives:

: Visit the official tModLoader GitHub Releases page. Look for the release that corresponds to v2023.09 or later, which supports Terraria 1.4.4.9.

If successful, tModLoader will boot. From there, you must manually install mods by downloading .tmod files from the or third-party mirrors like ModDB or GitHub repositories. The in-game Mod Browser will not work on a cracked copy because it requires Steam authentication to download files.

Terraria 1.4.4.9 ("Labor of Love") introduced significant updates that required a dedicated branch of tModLoader.