SSPREW

Obfuscation is a mechanism used to hinder reverse engineering of programs. To cope with the large number of obfuscated programs, especially malware, reverse engineers automate the process of deobfuscation i.e. extracting information from obfuscated ...

This paper presents a fully automated technique to find and trigger Use-After-Free vulnerabilities (UAF) on binary code. The approach combines a static analyzer and a dynamic symbolic execution engine. We also introduce several original heuristics for ...

Remotely determining which precise code is running on which machines is hard. This is especially true if the monitored machines lack modern security features and may be under malware attack, since in such a scenario the malware may have already ...

Businesses often interact with users via web-browsers and applications on mobile devices, and host services on cloud servers they may not own. Such highly-exposed environments employ white-box cryptography (WBC) for security protection. WBC operates on ...

Active Malware Analysis focuses on learning the behaviors and the intentions of a malicious piece of software by interacting with it in a safe environment. The process can be formalized as a stochastic game involving two agents, a malware sample and an ...

Embedded Systems (ES) are an integral part of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), the Internet of Things (IoT), and consumer devices like smartphones. ES often have limited resources, and - if used in CPS and IoT - have to satisfy real time requirements. ...

Existing anti-debugging protections are relatively weak. In existing self-debugger approaches, a custom debugger is attached to the main application, of which the control flow is obfuscated by redirecting it through the debugger. The coupling between ...

The ability to protect software from malicious reverse engineering remains a challenge faced by commercial software companies who invest a large amount of resources in the development of their software product. In order to protect their investment from ...