RopSteg: Program steganography with return oriented programming

• Main Authors: LU, Kangjie, XIONG, Siyang, GAO, Debin
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: code obfuscation; program steganography; return-oriented programming; watermarking; Information Security
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/7033; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/8036/viewcontent/RopSteg_pv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Many software obfuscation techniques have been proposed to hide program instructions or logic and to make reverse engineering hard. In this paper, we introduce a new property in software obfuscation, namely program steganography, where certain instructions are "diffused" in others in such...