A Software Watermarking Method Based on Program Execution Time

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作者：
Zhang Y. [1 ]
Chen K. [2 ]
Bao X. [3 ]
机构：
[1] Trusted Computing and Information Assureance Laboratory, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
[2] State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
[3] Legendsec Information Technology(Beijing) Inc, Beijing
来源：
Dianzi Yu Xinxi Xuebao/Journal of Electronics and Information Technology | 2020年 / 42卷 / 08期
基金：
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词：
Program execution; Software watermarking; Watermark encoding;
D O I：
10.11999/JEIT1_190850
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摘要：
Currently, a main problem in software is repackaging or plagiarization, which means attackers can add malicious payloads or advertisements into legitimate APPs through piggybacking, it greatly threatens the users and original developers. In this paper, a novel Software Watermarking method based on Program Execution Time (SW_PET) is proposed. By generating a variety of effect-canceling operations, the watermark information can be encoded into the form of program execution time, and can be embedded into Android APPs. In the detection process, the watermark information is extracted and compared with the original watermark to check whether the APP is repackaged. This method can be combined with other types of watermarks (e.g., picture-based watermarks) in order to enhance the robustness. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed approach is verified, and the overhead introduced by the watermark is measured, which is demonstrated to be minimal.
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页码：1811 / 1819
页数：8
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