Aspect-Oriented Code Obfuscation

Abstract

This paper reports on an exploratory study investigating the feasibility of using aspect-oriented constructs to instrument objects for the purposes of code obfuscation. With Java programs it is difficult to protect the intellectual property rights and secret information in untrusted environments. Consequently the utilization of software obfuscation techniques has become relevant. It has been found that Aspect-Oriented programming might be abused to overcome advanced code obfuscation used in Java Bytecode. In this paper possible intervention strategy to prevent these types of attacks using aspect-oriented programming language such as AspectJ is presented.