1st International ICST Workshop on Data Hiding for Information and Multimedia Security

Research Article

Metrics-based Evaluation of Slicing Obfuscations

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/IAS.2007.50,
        author={Anirban  Majumdar and Stephen  Drape and Clark  Thomborson},
        title={Metrics-based Evaluation of Slicing Obfuscations},
        proceedings={1st International  ICST Workshop on Data Hiding for Information and Multimedia Security},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={DHIM},
        year={2007},
        month={9},
        keywords={Evaluation  Metrics  Obfuscation  Slicing},
        doi={10.1109/IAS.2007.50}
    }
    
  • Anirban Majumdar
    Stephen Drape
    Clark Thomborson
    Year: 2007
    Metrics-based Evaluation of Slicing Obfuscations
    DHIM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/IAS.2007.50
Anirban Majumdar1,*, Stephen Drape1,*, Clark Thomborson1,*
  • 1: Department of Computer Science The University of Auckland, New Zealand
*Contact email: anirban@cs.auckland.ac.nz, stephen@cs.auckland.ac.nz, stephen@cs.auckland.ac.nz

Abstract

An obfuscation aims to transform a program, without affecting its functionality, so that some secret data within the program can be hidden for as long as possible from an adversary armed with reverse engineering tools. Slicing is a reverse engineering technique which produces a subset of a program that is dependent on a particular program point and is used to aid in program comprehension. Thus slicing could be used as a way of attacking obfuscated programs. In this contribution, we highlight a few obfuscating transforms that were proposed in an earlier publication for making attacks difficult to mount using slicers and then illustrate an experimental design to evaluate the strength of these transforms with respect to well defined slicing metrics.