Software obfuscation has always been a controversially discussed research area. While
theoretical results indicate that provably secure obfuscation in general is impossible, its …

Software security with respect to reverse-engineering is a challenging discipline that has
been researched for several years and which is still active. At the same time, this field is …

Man-at-the-end (MATE) attackers have full control over the system on which the attacked
software runs, and try to break the confidentiality or integrity of assets embedded in the …

Tampering with software by man-at-the-end (MATE) attackers is an attack that can lead to
security circumvention, privacy violation, reputation damage, and revenue loss. In this …

Software protection techniques are used to protect valuable software assets against man-at-
the-end attacks. Those attacks include reverse engineering to steal confidential assets, and …

App repackaging remains a serious threat to the emerging mobile app ecosystem. Previous
solutions have mostly focused on the postmortem detection of repackaged apps by …

To counter man-at-the-end attacks such as reverse engineering and tampering, software is
often protected with techniques that require support modules to be linked into the …

The ability to efficiently detect the software protections used is at a prime to facilitate the
selection and application of adequate deobfuscation techniques. We present a novel …

Process-level virtualization is increasingly being used to enhance the security of software
applications from reverse engineering and unauthorized modification (called software …

Android packers have been widely adopted by developers to protect apps from being
plagiarized. Meanwhile, various unpacking tools unpack the apps through direct memory …