Research Article
Lambda Obfuscation
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-78813-5_11, author={Pengwei Lan and Pei Wang and Shuai Wang and Dinghao Wu}, title={Lambda Obfuscation}, proceedings={Security and Privacy in Communication Networks. 13th International Conference, SecureComm 2017, Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, October 22--25, 2017, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={SECURECOMM}, year={2018}, month={4}, keywords={Software obfuscation Control flow obfuscation Reverse engineering Lambda calculus}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-78813-5_11} }- Pengwei Lan
Pei Wang
Shuai Wang
Dinghao Wu
Year: 2018
Lambda Obfuscation
SECURECOMM
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-78813-5_11
Abstract
With the rise of increasingly advanced reverse engineering technique, especially more scalable symbolic execution tools, software obfuscation faces great challenges. Branch conditions contain important control flow logic of a program. Adversaries can use powerful program analysis tools to collect sensitive program properties and recover a program’s internal logic, stealing intellectual properties from the original owner. In this paper, we propose a novel control obfuscation technique that uses lambda calculus to hide the original computation semantics and makes the original program more obscure to understand and reverse engineer. Our obfuscator replaces the conditional instructions with lambda calculus function calls that simulate the same behavior with a more complicated execution model. Our experiment result shows that our obfuscation method can protect sensitive branch conditions from state-of-the-art symbolic execution techniques, with only modest overhead.
