An Empirical Evaluation of Software Obfuscation Techniques Applied to Android APKs

被引：5
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作者：
Freiling, Felix C. [1 ]
Protsenko, Mykola [1 ]
Zhuang, Yan [1 ]
机构：
[1] Friedrich Alexander Univ Erlangen Nurnberg FAU, Dept Comp Sci, Erlangen, Germany
来源：
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SECURITY AND PRIVACY IN COMMUNICATION NETWORKS, SECURECOMM 2014, PT II | 2015年 / 153卷
关键词：
Software obfuscation; Mobile security; Android; Software protection; Reverse engineering; Software metrics;
D O I：
10.1007/978-3-319-23802-9_24
中图分类号：
TP301 [理论、方法];
学科分类号：
081202 ;
摘要：
We investigate the problem of creating complex software obfuscation for mobile applications. We construct complex software obfuscation from sequentially applying simple software obfuscation methods. We define several desirable and undesirable properties of such transformations, including idempotency and monotonicity. We empirically evaluate a set of 7 obfuscation methods on 240 Android Packages (APKs). We show that many obfuscation methods are idempotent or monotonous.
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页码：315 / 328
页数：14
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