Exploiting code mobility for dynamic binary obfuscation

Software protection aims at protecting the integrity of software applications deployed on un-trusted hosts and being subject to illegal analysis. Within an un-trusted environment a possibly malicious user has complete access to system resources and tools in order to analyze and tamper with the appli...

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Published in2011 World Congress on Internet Security pp. 114 - 120
Main Authors Falcarin, Paolo, Di Carlo, Stefano, Cabutto, Alessandro, Garazzino, Nicola, Barberis, Davide
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.02.2011
Subjects
Binary codes
Instruments
Mobile communication
Reverse engineering
Servers
Software
Software protection
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ISBN9781424488797
1424488796
DOI10.1109/WorldCIS17046.2011.5749894

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Summary:Software protection aims at protecting the integrity of software applications deployed on un-trusted hosts and being subject to illegal analysis. Within an un-trusted environment a possibly malicious user has complete access to system resources and tools in order to analyze and tamper with the application code. To address this research problem, we propose a novel binary obfuscation approach based on the deployment of an incomplete application whose code arrives from a trusted network entity as a flow of mobile code blocks which are arranged in memory with a different customized memory layout. This paper presents our approach to contrast reverse engineering by defeating static and dynamic analysis, and discusses its effectiveness.
ISBN:9781424488797
1424488796
DOI:10.1109/WorldCIS17046.2011.5749894