Software protection on the go: a large-scale empirical study on mobile app obfuscation
Abstract
The prosperity of smartphone markets has raised new concerns about software security on mobile platforms, leading to a growing demand for effective software obfuscation techniques. Due to various differences between the mobile and desktop ecosystems, obfuscation faces both technical and non-technical challenges when applied to mobile software. Although there have been quite a few software security solution providers launching their mobile app obfuscation services, it is yet unclear how real-world mobile developers perform obfuscation as part of their software engineering practices.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Wang-al:ICSE18,
author = {Pei Wang and
Qinkun Bao and
Li Wang and
Shuai Wang and
Zhaofeng Chen and
Tao Wei and
Dinghao Wu},
title = {Software protection on the go: a large-scale empirical study on mobile app obfuscation},
booktitle = {ICSE},
pages = {26--36},
publisher = {{ACM}},
year = {2018},
}