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JSProtect: A Scalable Obfuscation Framework for Mini-Games in WeChat

Software Engineering 2025-09-30 v1

Abstract

The WeChat mini-game ecosystem faces rampant intellectual property theft to other platforms via secondary development, yet existing JavaScript obfuscation tools are ill-equipped for large-scale applications, suffering from prohibitive processing times, severe runtime performance degradation, and unsustainable code size inflation. This paper introduces JSProtect, a high-throughput parallelized obfuscation framework designed to overcome these fundamental limitations. At the core of our framework is the Parallel-Aware Scope Analysis (PASA) algorithm, which enables two key optimizations: independent code partitioning for multi-core processing and independent namespace management that aggressively reuses short identifiers to combat code bloat. Our evaluation demonstrates that JSProtectprocesses 20MB codebases in minutes, maintaining 100\% semantic equivalence while controlling code size inflation to as low as 20\% compared to over 1,000\% with baseline tools. Furthermore, it preserves near-native runtime performance and provides superior security effectiveness against both static analysis tools and large language models. This work presents a new paradigm for industrial-scale JavaScript protection that effectively balances robust security with high performance and scalability.

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@article{arxiv.2509.24498,
  title  = {JSProtect: A Scalable Obfuscation Framework for Mini-Games in WeChat},
  author = {Zhihao Li and Chaozheng Wang and Zongjie Li and Xinyong Peng and Zelin Su and Qun Xia and Haochuan Lu and Ting Xiong and Man Ho Lam and Shuzheng Gao and Yuchong Xie and Cuiyun Gao and Shuai Wang and Yuetang Deng and Huafeng Ma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.24498},
  year   = {2025}
}

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