Obfuscapk: An open-source black-box obfuscation tool for Android apps | Zendy

Simone Aonzo | Zendy; Gabriel Claudiu Georgiu | Zendy; Luca Verderame | Zendy; Alessio Merlo | Zendy

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Obfuscapk: An open-source black-box obfuscation tool for Android apps

Author(s) -

Simone Aonzo,

Gabriel Claudiu Georgiu,

Luca Verderame,

Alessio Merlo

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

softwarex

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.528

H-Index - 21

ISSN - 2352-7110

DOI - 10.1016/j.softx.2020.100403

Subject(s) - obfuscation , computer science , android (operating system) , open source , modular design , source code , architecture , black box , computer security , operating system , software , artificial intelligence , art , visual arts

Obfuscapk is an open-source automatic obfuscation tool for Android apps that works in a black-box fashion (i.e., it does not need the app source code). Obfuscapk supports advanced obfuscation features and has a modular architecture that could be straightforwardly extended to support new obfuscation techniques. This paper introduces the architecture, the main obfuscation techniques implemented in Obfuscapk, as well as the basics of the Obfuscapk CLI. Finally, the paper discusses an actual use-case for Obfuscapk, and an empirical assessment on the reliability of the tool on a set of 1000 “most downloaded” APKs from the Google Play Store.

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