JOURNAL OF SHANDONG UNIVERSITY(NATURAL SCIENCE) ›› 2015, Vol. 50 ›› Issue (01): 12-19.doi: 10.6040/j.issn.1671-9352.2.2014.321

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A software protection method base on concealment of API security attributes

ZHANG Cong1,2, FANG Ding-yi1,2, WANG Huai-jun3, QI Sheng-de1,2   

  1. 1. School of Information Science and Technology, Northwest University, Xi'an 710127, Shaanxi, China;
    2. NWU-Irdeto IoT-Information Security Joint Lab., Xi'an 710127, Shaanxi, China;
    3. School of Information Science and Engineering, Xi'an University of Technology, Xi'an 710048, Shaanxi, China
  • Received:2014-06-24 Revised:2014-11-25 Online:2015-01-20 Published:2015-01-24

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Abstract: Based on three attacking targets of software, the role of each API security attribute was analyzed and the attributes set was collected. The attacking features (i.e. presence state and extracting ways) of each attribute were analyzed, based on which a method of concealing API security attributes was proposed. This method makes security attributes exist in a more subtle way. So it increases the difficulty of extracting them for attackers. In the end, experiments from two aspects: security effect and performance cost were conducted. And the experiment results show that the method can resist the API static security attributes of the acquisition. To a certain extent, it can also increase the difficulty of the dynamic acquisition without causing a great influence on the system performance.

Key words: reverse analysis, API security attributes, concealment method, attacking feature

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