Articles by Eduardo Blazquez

This article describes the main software protection techniques used in Android applications, organized around a taxonomy covering environment checks, obfuscation, and program loading abuse. It presents the results of a large-scale analysis of nearly 2.5 million Android apps, studying how widely these protections are adopted across different markets, app categories, and malware samples.

In this article I describe Java bytecode obfuscation, using one of the challenges I did in 2023 as part of the interviews with Quarkslab for the position of Java compiler engineer in QShield.