Shining Light on the Inter-procedural Code Obfuscation: Keep Pace with Progress in Binary Diffing

doi:10.1145/3701992

	Shining Light on the Inter-procedural Code Obfuscation: Keep Pace with Progress in Binary Diffing
	Zhang, Peihua 1,2; Wu, Chenggang 1,3,4; Hu, Hanzhi 1,3; Jia, Lichen 1; Peng, Mingfan 1,3; Xu, Jiali 1; Xie, Mengyao 1; Lai, Yuanming 1,3; Kang, Yan 1; Wang, Zhe 1,3,4
	2025-03-01
发表期刊	ACM TRANSACTIONS ON ARCHITECTURE AND CODE OPTIMIZATION
ISSN	1544-3566
卷号	22 期号:1 页码:28
摘要	Software obfuscation techniques have lost their effectiveness due to the rapid development of binary diffing techniques, which can achieve accurate function matching and identification. In this paper, we propose a new inter-procedural code obfuscation mechanism KHAos,1 which moves the code across functions to obfuscate the function by using compilation optimizations. Three obfuscation primitives are proposed to separate, aggregate, and hide the function. They can be combined to enhance the obfuscation effect further. This article also reveals distinguishing factors on obfuscation and compiler optimization and presents novel observations to gain insights into the impact of actively utilizing compiler optimization in obfuscation. A prototype of KHAos is implemented and evaluated on a large number of real-world programs. Experimental results show that KHAos outperforms existing code obfuscations and can significantly reduce the accuracy rates of six state-of-the-art binary diffing techniques with lower runtime overhead.
关键词	Software protection obfuscation binary diffing
DOI	10.1145/3701992
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	CAS Project for Young Scientists in Basic Research[YSBR-118]
WOS研究方向	Computer Science
WOS类目	Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture ; Computer Science, Theory & Methods
WOS记录号	WOS:001470292900002
出版者	ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.204/handle/2XEOYT63/40583
专题	中国科学院计算技术研究所期刊论文_英文
通讯作者	Wang, Zhe
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Comp Technol, SKLP, Beijing, Peoples R China 2.Tencent, WeChat, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China 4.Zhongguancun Lab, Beijing, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhang, Peihua,Wu, Chenggang,Hu, Hanzhi,et al. Shining Light on the Inter-procedural Code Obfuscation: Keep Pace with Progress in Binary Diffing[J]. ACM TRANSACTIONS ON ARCHITECTURE AND CODE OPTIMIZATION,2025,22(1):28.
APA	Zhang, Peihua.,Wu, Chenggang.,Hu, Hanzhi.,Jia, Lichen.,Peng, Mingfan.,...&Wang, Zhe.(2025).Shining Light on the Inter-procedural Code Obfuscation: Keep Pace with Progress in Binary Diffing.ACM TRANSACTIONS ON ARCHITECTURE AND CODE OPTIMIZATION,22(1),28.
MLA	Zhang, Peihua,et al."Shining Light on the Inter-procedural Code Obfuscation: Keep Pace with Progress in Binary Diffing".ACM TRANSACTIONS ON ARCHITECTURE AND CODE OPTIMIZATION 22.1(2025):28.