Year: 2016
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Software reverse engineering is an active threat against software programs.One of the popular techniques used to make software reverse engineering harder is obfuscation.Among various control flow obfuscations methods proposed in the last decade there is a lack of inter-functional control flow obfuscation techniques.In this paper we propose an inter-functional control flow obfuscation by manipulating return instructions.In our proposed method each function is split into different units, with each unit ending with a return instruction.The linear order in which functions appear in the program is obscured by shuffling these units there by creating an interfunctional control flow obfuscation.Experimental results show that the algorithm performs well against automated reverse engineering attacks.
Language: English
Subfield: Hardware and Architecture
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W2562611947