Mon 18 Jun 2018 11:00 - 11:30 at Columbus Ballroom A - Code Search

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 program structures. It is challenging to search for executables relevant to the original version of an obfuscated application for developers to analyze efficiently. Prior approaches toward obfuscation resilient search have relied on certain structural parts of apps remaining as landmarks, un-touched by obfuscation. For instance, some prior approaches have assumed that the structural relationships between identifiers are not broken by obfuscators; others have assumed that control flow graphs maintain their structures. Both approaches can be easily defeated by a motivated obfuscator. We present a new approach, MACSOP, to search for relevant programs of obfuscated executables that leverages deep learning and principle features on instructions. MACSOP makes few assumptions about the kinds of modifications that an obfuscator might perform. We show that it has high search precision for executables obfuscated by a state-of-the-art obfuscator that changes control ow and inserts new methods. Further, we also demonstrate the potential of MACSOP to help developers understand executables without analyzing them, where MACSOP infers keywords (which are from un-obfuscated programs) for obfuscated executables.

Mon 18 Jun

Displayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change

11:00 - 12:00
11:00
30m
Talk
Obfuscation Resilient Search through Executable Classification
MAPL
Fang-Hsiang Su Columbia University, New York, Jonathan Bell George Mason University, Gail Kaiser Columbia University, New York, Baishakhi Ray Columbia University, New York
11:30
30m
Talk
Retrieval on source code: a neural code search
MAPL
Saksham Sachdev Facebook, Hongyu Li Rice University, Sifei Luan Facebook, Seohyun Kim Facebook, Koushik Sen University of California, Berkeley, Satish Chandra Facebook