Binary Deobfuscation: Preface Table of Contents A Short Introduction Some Ground-Rules The Roadmap Meet The Enemy Commercial Protectors The Real Enemy ‘Legitimate’ Obfuscation Techniques, Topics, and Prevalence Instruction Substitution Control Flow Flattening Indirect Branches Opaque Predicates Function Inlining Function Outlining Dead Code Junk Code Constant Folding Constant Unfolding Virtualization Self Modification Jitting Commercial Obfuscations Malware Obfuscations ‘Legitimate’ Obfuscations A Conclusion, For Now Additional Reading References A Short Introduction Hello. My name is Cal, and as you read initially, this is a place for me to organize my thoughts. For a long time, I have been meaning to throw together some information regarding binary obfuscation. This post is going to be a preface to my journey exploring a variety of different protectors, the protections they provide (in terms of obfuscation), and how anybody with a little time and patience can overcome them. It’s my sincere hope that, by the…