Software protection through dynamic code mutation

Matias Madou; Bertrand Anckaert; Patrick Moseley; Saumya Debray; Bjorn De Sutter; Koen De Bosschere

Software protection through dynamic code mutation

Matias Madou, Bertrand Anckaert, Patrick Moseley, Saumya Debray, Bjorn De Sutter, Koen De Bosschere

Computer Science

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Abstract

Reverse engineering of executable programs, by disassembling them and then using program analyses to recover high level semantic information, plays an important role in attacks against software systems, and can facilitate software piracy. This paper introduces a novel technique to complicate reverse engineering. The idea is to change the program code repeatedly as it executes, thereby thwarting correct disassembly. The technique can be made as secure as the least secure component of opaque variables and pseudorandom number generators.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Information Security Applications - 6th International Workshop, WISA 2005, Revised Selected Papers
Pages	194-206
Number of pages	13
State	Published - 2005
Event	6th International Workshop on Information Security Applications, WISA 2005 - Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of Duration: Aug 22 2005 → Aug 24 2005

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	3786 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Other	6th International Workshop on Information Security Applications, WISA 2005
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Jeju Island
Period	8/22/05 → 8/24/05

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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Madou, M., Anckaert, B., Moseley, P., Debray, S., De Sutter, B., & De Bosschere, K. (2005). Software protection through dynamic code mutation. In Information Security Applications - 6th International Workshop, WISA 2005, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 194-206). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 3786 LNCS).

Software protection through dynamic code mutation. / Madou, Matias; Anckaert, Bertrand; Moseley, Patrick et al.
Information Security Applications - 6th International Workshop, WISA 2005, Revised Selected Papers. 2005. p. 194-206 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 3786 LNCS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Madou, M, Anckaert, B, Moseley, P, Debray, S, De Sutter, B & De Bosschere, K 2005, Software protection through dynamic code mutation. in Information Security Applications - 6th International Workshop, WISA 2005, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 3786 LNCS, pp. 194-206, 6th International Workshop on Information Security Applications, WISA 2005, Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of, 8/22/05.

Madou M, Anckaert B, Moseley P, Debray S, De Sutter B, De Bosschere K. Software protection through dynamic code mutation. In Information Security Applications - 6th International Workshop, WISA 2005, Revised Selected Papers. 2005. p. 194-206. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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