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 …

Software obfuscation is a crucial technology to protect intellectual property and manage
digital rights within our society. Despite its huge practical importance, both commercial and …

Mixed Boolean Arithmetic (MBA) obfuscation transforms a program expression into an
equivalent but complex expression that is hard to understand. MBA obfuscation has been …

Mixed Boolean-Arithmetic (MBA) expressions are frequently used for obfuscation. As they
combine arithmetic as well as Boolean operations, neither arithmetic laws nor transformation …

Software obfuscation is a crucial technology to protect intellectual property and manage
digital rights within our society. Despite its huge practical importance, both commercial and …

Malware analysis is the process of identifying whether certain software is malicious and
determining its capabilities. Unfortunately, malware authors have developed increasingly …

Malware code often resorts to various self-protection techniques to complicate analysis. One
such technique is applying Mixed-Boolean Arithmetic (MBA) expressions as a way to create …

Virtualization obfuscators are commonly employed to safeguard proprietary code or to
impede malware analysis. Despite significant efforts to combat these obfuscators over the …

Virtualization obfuscation is a very effective method used to protect programs from malicious
analysis by obscuring their code. Due to the fixed scheduling structures, typical virtualization …

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 …