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JavaScript's widespread adoption has made it an attractive target for malicious attackers who employ sophisticated obfuscation techniques to conceal harmful code. Current deobfuscation tools suffer from critical limitations that severely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Dongchao Zhou , Lingyun Ying , Huajun Chai , Dongbin Wang

JavaScript is a popular attack vector for releasing malicious payloads on unsuspecting Internet users. Authors of this malicious JavaScript often employ numerous obfuscation techniques in order to prevent the automatic detection by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Adrian Herrera

Android applications are usually obfuscated before release, making it difficult to analyze them for malware presence or intellectual property violations. Obfuscators might hide the true intent of code by renaming variables and/or modifying…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Fang-Hsiang Su , Jonathan Bell , Gail Kaiser , Baishakhi Ray

Opaque predicates are a well-established fundamental building block for software obfuscation. Simplified, an opaque predicate implements an expression that provides constant Boolean output, but appears to have dynamic behavior for static…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Max Hoffmann , Christof Paar

A Java File Security System (JFSS) [1] has been developed by us. That is an ecrypted file system. It is developed by us because there are so many file data breaches in the past and current history and they are going to increase day by day…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-12-09 Brijender Kahanwal , Tejinder Pal Singh

Recent advances in self-supervised learning have dramatically improved the state of the art on a wide variety of tasks. However, research in language model pre-training has mostly focused on natural languages, and it is unclear whether…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Baptiste Roziere , Marie-Anne Lachaux , Marc Szafraniec , Guillaume Lample

In Software Reengineering, one of the central artifacts is the source code of the legacy system in question. In fact, in most cases it is the only definitive artifact, because over the time the code has diverged from the original…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-11-22 Tassilo Horn

The main stretch in the paper is buffer overflow anomaly occurring in major source codes, designed in various programming language. It describes the various as to how to improve your code and increase its strength to withstand security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-08-17 Manas Gaur

JavaScript obfuscators are widely deployed to protect intellectual property and resist reverse engineering, yet their correctness has been largely overlooked compared to performance and resilience. Existing evaluations typically measure…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Shan Jiang , Chenguang Zhu , Sarfraz Khurshid

In contrast to software reverse engineering, there are hardly any tools available that support hardware reversing. Therefore, the reversing process is conducted by human analysts combining several complex semi-automated steps. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Carina Wiesen , Nils Albartus , Max Hoffmann , Steffen Becker , Sebastian Wallat , Marc Fyrbiak , Nikol Rummel , Christof Paar

Reverse engineering binaries is required to understand and analyse programs for which the source code is unavailable. Decompilers can transform the largely unreadable binaries into a more readable source code-like representation. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Ali Al-Kaswan , Toufique Ahmed , Maliheh Izadi , Anand Ashok Sawant , Premkumar Devanbu , Arie van Deursen

Program obfuscation aims to hide the inner workings of a program while preserving its functionality. In the quantum setting, recent works have obtained obfuscation schemes for specialized classes of quantum circuits. For instance, Bartusek,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Mi-Ying Huang , Er-Cheng Tang

Large-scale code reuse significantly reduces both development costs and time. However, the massive share of third-party code in software projects poses new challenges, especially in terms of maintenance and security. In this paper, we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-16 César Soto-Valero , Deepika Tiwari , Tim Toady , Benoit Baudry

Today's routing protocols critically rely on the assumption that the underlying hardware is trusted. Given the increasing number of attacks on network devices, and recent reports on hardware backdoors this assumption has become…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Kashyap Thimmaraju , Liron Schiff , Stefan Schmid

When done manually, refactoring legacy code in order to eliminate uses of deprecated APIs is an error-prone and time-consuming process. In this paper, we investigate to which degree refactorings for deprecated Java APIs can be automated,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Cristina David , Pascal Kesseli , Daniel Kroening , Hanliang Zhang

Malware constitutes a major global risk affecting millions of users each year. Standard algorithms in detection systems perform insufficiently when dealing with malware passed through obfuscation tools. We illustrate this studying in detail…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Alberto Redondo , David Rios Insua

Reverse Engineering(RE) has been a fundamental task in software engineering. However, most of the traditional Java reverse engineering tools are strictly rule defined, thus are not fault-tolerant, which pose serious problem when noise and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Zhiming Li , Qing Wu , Kun Qian

Deep learning has been widely applied in many computer vision applications, with remarkable success. However, running deep learning models on mobile devices is generally challenging due to the limitation of computing resources. A popular…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Ang Li , Jiayi Guo , Huanrui Yang , Flora D. Salim , Yiran Chen

This paper presents the source code analysis of a file reader server socket program (connection-oriented sockets) developed in Java, to illustrate the identification, impact analysis and solutions to remove five important software security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-12-02 Natarajan Meghanathan

During compilation from Java source code to bytecode, some information is irreversibly lost. In other words, compilation and decompilation of Java code is not symmetric. Consequently, decompilation, which aims at producing source code from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Nicolas Harrand , César Soto-Valero , Martin Monperrus , Benoit Baudry