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Aligot: cryptographic function identification in obfuscated binary programs

Résumé

Analyzing cryptographic implementations has important ap- plications, especially for malware analysis where they are an integral part both of the malware payload and the unpacking code that decrypts this payload. These implementations are often based on well-known cryptographic functions, whose description is publicly available. While potentially very use- ful for malware analysis, the identification of such crypto- graphic primitives is made difficult by the fact that they are usually obfuscated. Current state-of-the-art identification tools are ineffective due to the absence of easily identifiable static features in obfuscated code. However, these imple- mentations still maintain the input-output (I/O) relation- ship of the original function. In this paper, we present a tool that leverages this fact to identify cryptographic functions in obfuscated programs, by retrieving their I/O parameters in an implementation-independent fashion, and comparing them with those of known cryptographic functions. In ex- perimental evaluation, we successfully identified the crypto- graphic functions TEA, RC4, AES and MD5 in obfuscated programs. In addition, our tool was able to recognize basic operations done in asymmetric ciphers such as RSA.
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hal-00762924 , version 1 (09-12-2012)

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Joan Calvet, José Fernandez, Jean-Yves Marion. Aligot: cryptographic function identification in obfuscated binary programs. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Oct 2012, Raleigh, United States. pp.169-182. ⟨hal-00762924⟩
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