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Design and Evaluation of the De-obfuscation Method against the Identifier Renaming Methods

Authors
Yosuke Isobe1, *, Haruaki Tamada2
1Division of Frontier Informatics, Graduate School of Kyoto Sangyo University, Motoyama, Kamigamo, Kita-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto 603-8555, Japan
2Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Kyoto Sangyo University, Motoyama, Kamigamo, Kita-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto 603-8555, Japan
*Corresponding author. Email: i1788016@cc.kyoto-su.ac.jp
Corresponding Author
Yosuke Isobe
Received 27 June 2018, Accepted 24 September 2018, Available Online 28 September 2018.
DOI
10.2991/ijndc.2018.6.4.6How to use a DOI?
Keywords
De-obfuscation; identifier renaming method; software protection; random forest
Abstract

The Identifier Renaming Method (IRM) is a well-used obfuscation method since almost obfuscation tools use the algorithm, and easy to implement. The IRM transforms the identifier names in the programs to meaningless names in order to hard to understand. However, the evaluations against attacks such as de-obfuscation were not conducted. Therefore, this paper proposes the method for restoring the verbs in method names from identifier renamed programs. This approach is one of the attack of the de-obfuscation, thus, this paper evaluates IRM tolerance against the attack. From the experimental evaluation, the proposed method can restore the 49.71% of method names to the original verbs. Furthermore, focusing on the meanings of verbs, the proposed method recommends the verbs of similar meanings to the original verbs in 57.01% of methods.

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Journal
International Journal of Networked and Distributed Computing
Volume-Issue
6 - 4
Pages
232 - 238
Publication Date
2018/09/28
ISSN (Online)
2211-7946
ISSN (Print)
2211-7938
DOI
10.2991/ijndc.2018.6.4.6How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2018 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
Open Access
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licences/by-nc/4.0/).

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