Statistical Deobfuscation of Android Applications

Explore a conference talk on statistical deobfuscation techniques for Android applications presented at CCS 2016. Delve into the research conducted by Benjamin Bichsel, Veselin Raychev, Petar Tsankov, and Martin Vechev from ETH Zurich. Learn about their innovative system, its underlying mechanisms, and the use of Probabilistic Graphical Models in the deobfuscation process. Discover the implementation details and examine the experimental results that demonstrate the effectiveness of their approach. Gain insights into this cutting-edge research that addresses the challenge of reverse engineering obfuscated Android apps, presented at the 23rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security held at Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria.

Introduction
Release of the system
How does it work
Probabilistic Graphical Models
Implementation
Experiments