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<li><a href="#deobfuscation">Deobfuscation</a><ul>
<li><a href="#principles-of-obfuscation">Principles of Obfuscation</a></li>
<li><a href="#evade-statical-rules">Evade Statical Rules</a><ul>
<li><a href="#splitting-merging-of-strings">Splitting &amp; Merging of Strings</a></li>
<li><a href="#adding-unnecessary-instructions">Adding Unnecessary Instructions</a></li>
<li><a href="#control-flow">Control Flow</a></li>
<li><a href="#protecting-data">Protecting Data</a></li>
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<li><a href="#usage">Usage</a></li>
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<h1 id="deobfuscation">Deobfuscation</h1>
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<h2 id="principles-of-obfuscation">Principles of Obfuscation</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Software obfuscation may be divided into a theoretical layered approach, done by <a href="https://cybersecurity.springeropen.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s42400-020-00049-3.pdf">Hui Xu et. al</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>These layers and what's obfuscated are:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Code Element</strong><ul>
<li>Layout</li>
<li>Controls</li>
<li>Data</li>
<li>Classes</li>
<li>Methods</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Software Component</strong></li>
<li><strong>Inter Component</strong><ul>
<li>Library calls</li>
<li>Used Resources</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Application</strong><ul>
<li>DRM System</li>
<li>Neural Networks</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="evade-statical-rules">Evade Statical Rules</h2>
<ul>
<li>Critical data is obfuscated by the <strong>Code Element</strong> layer which contains the following methods of obfuscation<ul>
<li><strong>Array Transformation</strong></li>
<li><strong>Data Encoding</strong></li>
<li><strong>Data Procedurization</strong></li>
<li><strong>Data Splitting &amp; Merging</strong></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="splitting-merging-of-strings">Splitting &amp; Merging of Strings</h3>
<ul>
<li>Breaking signature by modifying data distribution inside the code</li>
<li>
<p>This may be done by modifying strings and functions through following measures</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Joining</strong></p>
</li>
</ul>
<div class="codehilite"><pre><span></span><code><span class="s2">&quot;CAFFEE&quot;</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="s2">&quot;BABE&quot;</span>
</code></pre></div>
<ul>
<li><strong>Reordering</strong></li>
</ul>
<div class="codehilite"><pre><span></span><code><span class="n">a</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">&quot;BABE&quot;</span>
<span class="n">b</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">&quot;CAFFEE&quot;</span>
<span class="sa">f</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="si">{</span><span class="n">b</span><span class="si">}{</span><span class="n">a</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span>
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<ul>
<li><strong>Whitespaces of functions which are not interpreted</strong></li>
</ul>
<div class="codehilite"><pre><span></span><code><span class="kt">int</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nf">main</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">(</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kt">void</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">)</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span><span class="w"></span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="n">printf</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">(</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;The answer is %d&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mi">42</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">)</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">;</span><span class="w"></span>
<span class="p">}</span><span class="w"></span>
</code></pre></div>
<ul>
<li>
<p><strong>Adding ticks which are not interpreted</strong></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Change <code>uPpER aNd loWeRcAsE oF cHaRaCtErS iN tHe StRinG</code></strong></p>
</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="adding-unnecessary-instructions">Adding Unnecessary Instructions</h3>
<ul>
<li>Obfuscation of layout and controls inside the code</li>
<li><strong>Junk Stubs</strong></li>
<li><strong>Separation of Related Code</strong></li>
<li><strong>Stripping Redundant Symbols</strong></li>
<li><strong>Meaningless Identifiers</strong></li>
<li><strong>Converting Explicit to Implicit Instructions</strong></li>
<li><strong>Dispatcher Based Controls Executed During Runtime</strong></li>
<li><strong>Probabilistic Control Flows</strong></li>
<li><strong>Bogus Control Flows</strong></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="control-flow">Control Flow</h3>
<ul>
<li>Changing or adding to the flow of the code through change of conditions</li>
<li>Changes may be set to arbitrary code segments by <strong>Opaque Predicates</strong></li>
<li>An <strong>Opaque Predicate</strong> is a control path and value known by the obfuscater and hard to find out by the reverse engineer</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="protecting-data">Protecting Data</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Stripping and protecting</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Code Structure</strong></li>
<li><strong>Object names</strong></li>
<li><strong>File &amp; Compilation Properties</strong></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>To strip symbols</p>
</li>
</ul>
<div class="codehilite"><pre><span></span><code>strip --strip-all &lt;binary&gt;
</code></pre></div>
<ul>
<li>Check via</li>
</ul>
<div class="codehilite"><pre><span></span><code>nm &lt;binary&gt;
</code></pre></div>
<h2 id="usage">Usage</h2>
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<ul>
<li>Find a deobfuscator like <a href="https://github.com/de4dot/de4dot.git">de4dot</a> for e.g. deobfuscating dotfuscator </li>
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<li>In case of dotnet: <strong>Do not only use ghidra for reversing, use <a href="https://github.com/icsharpcode/ILSpy.git">ILSpy</a> as well</strong></li>
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