• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.13-20
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• 2016

Most software is distributed as a binary file format, so reverse engineering is not easy. But Android is based on the Java and running on virtual machine. So, Android applications can be analyzed by reverse engineering tools. To overcome this problem, various obfuscation techniques are developed. In android environment, the Proguard is most widely used because it is included in the Android SDK distribution package. The Proguard can protect the Java source code from reverse engineering analysis. But it has no function to protect resources like images, sounds and databases. In this paper, we proposed and implemented resource obfuscation framework to protect resources of android application. We expect that this framework can protect android resources effectively.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.11 no.11
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• pp.1-7
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• 2020

Android apps are mostly distributed as an apk files, and when the apk file is uncompressed, resource files such as xml files, images, and sounds related to app design can be extracted. If the resources of banking or finance-related apps are stolen and fake apps are distributed, personal information could be stolen or financial fraud may occur. Therefore, it is necessary to make it difficult to steal the design as well as the code when distributing the app. In this paper, we implemented a tool to convert the xml file into Java code and obfuscate using the Proguard, and evaluated the execution performance. If the layout obfuscation technique proposed in this paper is used, it is expected that the app operation performance can be improved and the illegal copying damage caused by the theft of the screen design can be prevented.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.1063-1075
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• 2022

In recent years, container techniques have been broadly applied to cloud computing systems to maximize their efficiency, flexibility, and economic feasibility. Concurrently, studies have also been conducted to ensure the security of cloud computing. Among these studies, moving-target defense techniques using the high agility and flexibility of cloud-computing systems are gaining attention. Moving-target defense (MTD) is a technique that prevents various security threats in advance by proactively changing the main attributes of the protected target to confuse the attacker. However, an analysis of existing MTD techniques revealed that, although they are capable of deceiving attackers, MTD techniques have practical limitations when applied to an actual cloud-computing system. These limitations include resource wastage, management complexity caused by additional function implementation and system introduction, and a potential increase in attack complexity. Accordingly, this paper proposes a software-defined MTD system that can flexibly apply and manage existing and future MTD techniques. The proposed software-defined MTD system is designed to correctly define a valid mutation range and cycle for each moving-target technique and monitor system-resource status in a software-defined manner. Consequently, the proposed method can flexibly reflect the requirements of each MTD technique without any additional hardware by using a software-defined approach. Moreover, the increased attack complexity can be resolved by applying multiple MTD techniques.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2014.01a
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• pp.93-97
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• 2014

소프트웨어는 대부분 바이너리 형태로 배포되기 때문에 역공학 분석이 쉽지 않다. 그러나 안드로이드는 자바를 기반으로 한다. 자바는 클래스 파일의 형태로 배포되는데 클래스 파일은 자바 소스 프로그램의 정보를 대부분 유지하고 있기 때문에 역공학 기술을 적용하기가 타 언어에 비해 쉽다. 이 문제에 대처하기 위해서 프로그램의 기능을 그대로 유지하고, 프로그램을 분석하기 어려운 형태로 변환하는 다양한 난독화 방법이 제안되었다. 안드로이드 환경에서는 안드로이드 SDK와 함께 배포되는 난독화 도구인 프로가드(Proguard)가 가장 널리 사용된다. 그러나 프로가드는 문자열 난독화를 기능을 제공하지 않는다. 본 논문에서는 프로가드의 한계를 보완할 수 있는 문자열 난독화 기법을 제안하고 구현하였다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 문자열 난독화 기법을 먼저 소스 코드에 적용하고, 이후 프로가드의 난독화 기능을 추가로 사용한다면 안드로이드 프로그램을 역공학 분석으로부터 보호하는 효과적인 방법으로 사용될 수 있을 것이다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.377-386
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• 2016

As the number of malware has been increased, it is necessary to analyze malware rapidly against cyber attack. Additionally, Dynamic malware analysis has been widely studied to overcome the limitation of static analysis such as packing and obfuscation, but still has a problem of exploring multiple execution path. Previous works for exploring multiple execution path have several problems that it requires much time to analyze and resource for preparing analysis environment. In this paper, we proposed efficient exploring approach for multiple execution path in a single analysis environment by pipelining processes and showed the improvement of speed by 29% in 2-core and 70% in 4-core through experiment.