Software watermarking using Return-Oriented Programming

Haoyu Ma; Kangjie Lu; Xinjie Ma; Haining Zhang; Chunfu Jia; Debin Gao

doi:10.1145/2714576.2714582

Software watermarking using Return-Oriented Programming

Haoyu Ma, Kangjie Lu, Xinjie Ma, Haining Zhang, Chunfu Jia, Debin Gao

Computer Science and Engineering

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Abstract

We propose a novel dynamic software watermarking design based on Return-Oriented Programming (ROP). Our design formats watermarking code into well-crafted data arrangements that look like normal data but could be triggered to execute. Once triggered, the pre-constructed ROP execution will recover the hidden watermark message. The proposed ROP-based watermarking technique is more stealthy and resilient over existing techniques since the watermarking code is allocated dynamically into data region and therefore out of reach of attacks based on code analysis. Evaluations show that our design not only achieves satisfying stealth and resilience, but also causes significantly lower overhead to the watermarked program.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	ASIACCS 2015 - Proceedings of the 10th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	369-380
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450332453
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2714576.2714582
State	Published - Apr 14 2015
Event	10th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security, ASIACCS 2015 - Singapore, Singapore Duration: Apr 14 2015 → Apr 17 2015

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Name	ASIACCS 2015 - Proceedings of the 10th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security

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Other	10th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security, ASIACCS 2015
Country/Territory	Singapore
City	Singapore
Period	4/14/15 → 4/17/15

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Keywords

Code obfuscation
Return-oriented programming
Reverse engineering
Software watermarking

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Ma, H., Lu, K., Ma, X., Zhang, H., Jia, C., & Gao, D. (2015). Software watermarking using Return-Oriented Programming. In ASIACCS 2015 - Proceedings of the 10th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (pp. 369-380). (ASIACCS 2015 - Proceedings of the 10th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2714576.2714582

Software watermarking using Return-Oriented Programming. / Ma, Haoyu; Lu, Kangjie; Ma, Xinjie et al.
ASIACCS 2015 - Proceedings of the 10th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security. Association for Computing Machinery, 2015. p. 369-380 (ASIACCS 2015 - Proceedings of the 10th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security).

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Ma, H, Lu, K, Ma, X, Zhang, H, Jia, C & Gao, D 2015, Software watermarking using Return-Oriented Programming. in ASIACCS 2015 - Proceedings of the 10th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security. ASIACCS 2015 - Proceedings of the 10th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 369-380, 10th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security, ASIACCS 2015, Singapore, Singapore, 4/14/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2714576.2714582

Ma H, Lu K, Ma X, Zhang H, Jia C, Gao D. Software watermarking using Return-Oriented Programming. In ASIACCS 2015 - Proceedings of the 10th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security. Association for Computing Machinery. 2015. p. 369-380. (ASIACCS 2015 - Proceedings of the 10th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security). doi: 10.1145/2714576.2714582

Ma, Haoyu ; Lu, Kangjie ; Ma, Xinjie et al. / Software watermarking using Return-Oriented Programming. ASIACCS 2015 - Proceedings of the 10th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security. Association for Computing Machinery, 2015. pp. 369-380 (ASIACCS 2015 - Proceedings of the 10th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security).

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