Software Watermarking using Return-Oriented Programming

• 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
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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...