Tag: RASP

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Is LLM-assisted reverse engineering making obfuscation pointless? We spent a couple of weeks trying to find out, by handing sandboxed agents a series of progressively hardened AArch64 binaries and one prompt: recover the hidden strings inside. This post walks through what the agent actually did, three ways our experiment fell apart, and what those failures suggest about designing protections that hold against automated analysis.

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.