Studying Android obfuscation techniques is an essential task for understanding and
analyzing malicious applications. Obfuscation techniques have already been extensively …

Malware authors constantly obfuscate their files and defenders regularly develop new
techniques to detect them. Given this cat-and-mouse game, specialized obfuscation services …

Obfuscation techniques have been conventionally used for legitimate applications, including
preventing application reverse engineering, tampering and protecting intellectual property. A …

Program code is a valuable asset to its owner. Due to the easy-to-reverse nature of Java,
code protection for Android apps is of particular importance. To this end, code obfuscation is …

Both Android application developers and malware authors use sophisticated obfuscation
tools to prevent their mobile applications from being repackaged and analyzed. These tools …

Software reverse engineering has been applied widely by analyzing software for identifying
vulnerabilities and hidden functionalities, primarily without the source code. It also opens the …

Obfuscation is frequently used by both benign and malicious Android apps. Since static
analysis of obfuscated apps often produces incomplete or misleading results, the problems …

Obfuscation is used in malware to hide malicious activity from manual or automatic program
analysis. On the Android platform, malware has had a history of using obfuscation …

Mobile devices have become ubiquitous due to centralization of private user information,
contacts, messages and multiple sensors. Google Android, an open-source mobile …

This work presents a new approach for deobfuscating Android APKs based on probabilistic
learning of large code bases (termed" Big Code"). The key idea is to learn a probabilistic …