Software Watermarking using Return-Oriented Programming

Software Watermarking using Return-Oriented Programming

We propose a novel dynamic software watermarking design based on Return-Oriented Programming (ROP). Our design formats watermarking code into well-crafted data arrangements that look like normal data but could be triggered to execute. Once triggered, the pre-constructed ROP execution will recover th...

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Main Authors: Ma, Haoyu, Lu, Kangjie, Ma, Xinjie, Zhang, Haining, Jia, Chunfu, GAO, Debin
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
Subjects:
code obfuscation
return-oriented programming
reverse engineering
software watermarking
Computer Sciences
Information Security
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2633
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/3633/viewcontent/asiaccs15.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English
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Summary:We propose a novel dynamic software watermarking design based on Return-Oriented Programming (ROP). Our design formats watermarking code into well-crafted data arrangements that look like normal data but could be triggered to execute. Once triggered, the pre-constructed ROP execution will recover the hidden watermark message. The proposed ROP-based watermarking technique is more stealthy and resilient over existing techniques since the watermarking code is allocated dynamically into data region and therefore out of reach of attacks based on code analysis. Evaluations show that our design not only achieves satisfying stealth and resilience, but also causes significantly lower overhead to the watermarked program.

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