Keyword

code obfuscation

Description: A software security technique that transforms source code or programs to make their logic difficult to understand or analyze while preserving function.

Primary topic: Security and Verification in Computing (38%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q1150647

OpenAlex ID: keywords/code-obfuscation

On the (Im)possibility of Obfuscating Programs

2001 · Boaz Barak, Oded Goldreich, et al. · Lecture notes in computer science · 1,286

A Taxonomy of Obfuscating Transformations

1997 · Christian Collberg, Clark Thomborson, et al. · 845

The art of computer virus research and defense

2005 · Choice Reviews Online · 836

Watermarking, tamper-proofing, and obfuscation - tools for software protection

2002 · C.S. Collberg, C. Thomborson · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 735

Obfuscation of executable code to improve resistance to static disassembly

2003 · Cullen Linn, Saumya Debray · Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security · 602

Static Analysis of Executables to Detect Malicious Patterns

2006 · Mihai Christodorescu, Somesh Jha · 600

On the (im)possibility of obfuscating programs

2012 · Boaz Barak, Oded Goldreich, et al. · Journal of the ACM · 595

Android Security: A Survey of Issues, Malware Penetration, and Defenses

2014 · Parvez Faruki, Ammar Bharmal, et al. · IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials · 559

Towards a theory of software protection and simulation by oblivious RAMs

1987 · O. Goldreich · 507

Address obfuscation: an efficient approach to combat a board range of memory error exploits

2003 · Sandeep Bhatkar, Daniel C. DuVarney, et al. · USENIX Security Symposium · 505

Asm2Vec: Boosting Static Representation Robustness for Binary Clone Search against Code Obfuscation and Compiler Optimization

2019 · Steven H. H. Ding, Benjamin C. M. Fung, et al. · Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy/Proceedings of the ... IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy · 438

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Dynamic Malware Analysis in the Modern Era—A State of the Art Survey

2019 · Ori Or-Meir, Nir Nissim, et al. · ACM Computing Surveys · 384

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Software watermarking

1999 · Christian Collberg, Clark Thomborson · ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL) · 342

Reliable Third-Party Library Detection in Android and its Security Applications

2016 · Michael Backes, Sven Bugiel, et al. · ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) · 324

SoK: Automated Software Diversity

2014 · Per Larsen, Andrei Homescu, et al. · Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy/Proceedings of the ... IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy · 321

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Early-stage malware prediction using recurrent neural networks

2018 · Matilda Rhode, Pete Burnap, et al. · Computers & Security · 309

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Exploiting Software: How to Break Code

2004 · Greg Hoglund, Gary McGraw · 304

Achieving accuracy and scalability simultaneously in detecting application clones on Android markets

2014 · Kai Chen, Peng Liu, et al. · Proceedings/Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering · 287

ROPecker: A Generic and Practical Approach For Defending Against ROP Attacks

2014 · Yueqiang Cheng, Zongwei Zhou, et al. · Network and Distributed System Security Symposium · 279

Testing malware detectors

2004 · Mihai Christodorescu, Somesh Jha · ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) · 271

Positive Results and Techniques for Obfuscation

2004 · Benjamin Lynn, Manoj Prabhakaran, et al. · Lecture notes in computer science · 271

Protecting Obfuscation against Algebraic Attacks

2014 · Boaz Barak, Sanjam Garg, et al. · Lecture notes in computer science · 253

Surreptitious Software: Obfuscation, Watermarking, and Tamperproofing for Software Protection

2009 · Christian Collberg, Jasvir Nagra · 239

Obfuscator-LLVM -- Software Protection for the Masses

2015 · Pascal Junod, Julien Rinaldini, et al. · 238

Indistinguishability obfuscation from well-founded assumptions

2021 · Aayush Jain, Huijia Lin, et al. · ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) · 237

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Works count: 3,859

Citation count: 44,960