Packed, Printable, and Polymorphic Return-Oriented Programming

• Main Authors: LU, Kangjie, Zou, Dabi, Wen, Weiping, GAO, Debin
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• Subjects: Return-oriented programming; packer; printable shellcode; polymorphic malware; Information Security
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2004; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/3003/viewcontent/raid11.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Return-oriented programming (ROP) is an attack that has been shown to be able to circumvent W ⊕ X protection. However, it was not clear if ROP can be made as powerful as non-ROP malicious code in other aspects, e.g., be packed to make static analysis difficult, be printable to evade non-ASCII filter...