• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.21-29
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• 2006

Recently, illegal manipulation and forgery threats on computer softwares are increasing. Specially, forge the code of program and disrupt normal operation using a malicious loader program against the Internet application client. In this paper, we first analyze and generate signatures of malicious loader detection. And, we propose a method to secure the application client based on profiling which can detect and filter out abnormal malicious loader requests.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.17-30
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• 2015

Unlike existing widely used bytecode-centric Android application code obfuscation methodology, our scheme in this paper makes encrypted file i.e. DEX file self-extracted arbitrary Android application. And then suggests a method regarding making the loader app to execute encrypted file's code after saving the file in arbitrary folder. Encrypted DEX file in the loader app includes original code and some of Manifest information to conceal event treatment information. Loader app's Manifest has original app's Manifest information except included information at encrypted DEX. Using our scheme, an attacker can make malicious code including obfuscated code to avoid anti-virus software at first. Secondly, Software developer can make an application with hidden main algorithm to protect copyright using suggestion technology. We implement prototype in Android 4.4.2(Kitkat) and check obfuscation capacity of malicious code at VirusTotal to show effectiveness.