DeGuard — Deobfuscation for Android applications

APK DeGuard example

Obfuscated APK

class a.b.c {
  void a(a.b.d e) { ... }
}

After DeGuard

class com.example.PaymentHandler {
  void process(Transaction t) { ... }
}

Schematic illustration of the task, not output from a specific run.

Statistical Deobfuscation of Android Applications

Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2016).

DeGuard project page The lab’s own page for the system: what it does and how it works.
Statistical Deobfuscation of Android Applications The CCS 2016 publication page, with the paper, the slides and the recorded talk.
BigCode: Statistical Programming Engines The umbrella research project that DeGuard, JSNice and DEBIN all come out of.
Nice2Predict The open-source structured-prediction framework DeGuard is built on, shared with JSNice and DEBIN.

Related on this site: JSNice, for JavaScript, and DEBIN, for stripped binaries.