Computer Science ›› 2018, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (2): 215-221.doi: 10.11896/j.issn.1002-137X.2018.02.037

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Mimic Security Defence Strategy Based on Software Diversity

ZHANG Yu-jia, PANG Jian-min, ZHANG Zheng and WU Jiang-xing   

  • Online:2018-02-15 Published:2018-11-13

Abstract: With the development of reverse engineering,the software industry has suffered a great loss from the software piracy and malicious attack for a long time.Code obfuscation techniques which can hide specific function of a program from malicious analysis for malware is thus frequently employed to mitigate this risk.However,most of the exis-ting obfuscation methods are language embedded and depend on the target architecture,this paper proposed a method of compile-time obfuscation,and further presented a prototype implementedation based on the LLVM compiler infrastructure.Furthermore,this paper implemented a mimic security defence system which is free from malicious attack with the software diversity method.

Key words: Obfuscation,Software diversity,Mimic defence

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