Automatically detect obfuscated code and other state machines

Last update: Dec 04, 2022

Overview

Obfuscation Detection

Authored by: Tim Blazytko

Adapted by: mcdulltii

Automatically detect obfuscated code and other state machines

Description:

Scripts to automatically detect obfuscated code and state machines in binaries.

Implementation is based on IDA 7.4+ (Python3). Check out the following blog posts for more information on the Binary Ninja implementation:

Note:

Due to the recursive nature of plotting a dominator tree of every found function within the binary, the implementation and runtime overhead is expensive, though threading has been implemented.

MAX_FUNCTIONS = 50
MAX_NODES = 50
# --- snipped ---
if sum([1 for _ in idautils.Functions()]) > MAX_FUNCTIONS:
    detect.partial_heur()
else:
    detect.all_heur()
# --- snipped ---
if sum([1 for _ in FlowChart(get_func(ea))]) > MAX_NODES:
    pass

For more details on partial_heur() and all_heur():

all_heur() calls all heuristic functions on the binary, then prints an output of the heuristics of all functions within the binary.

partial_heur() calls all heuristic functions on the binary, then prints an output of the heuristics of the top 10% (or bounded by MAX_FUNCTIONS) functions within the binary.

Instruction overlapping heuristic algorithm makes use of mcsema disassembly code to follow jmp and call instructions for better coverage.

Since the script uses the IDA API, any functions that are missed by IDA will likely not be detected.

Usage

Copy the obfDetect directory and obfDetect.py into the IDA Plugins directory.

When IDA has successfully finished loading a binary, the script will print out its banner into the IDC/Python console. If not, the script can be re-loaded using alt-E and selecting it within the plugin dropdown.

The script can be run via the File toolbar as shown below. Alternatively, Ctrl-Shift-H.

Examples

A small binary with 2 scanned functions

Resilience test using a large binary obfuscated using O-LLVM

Instruction overlapping heuristic detection

Todo

GUI Implementation branch

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Comments

dict_keys error.

while using it against themida hanhelds , i got this :

func_list = list(reversed(sorted_functions.keys()))[:bound] if partial else list(reversed(sorted_functions.keys()))
TypeError: 'dict_keys' object is not reversible

bug

opened by ghost 2

Releases(v1.7)

v1.7(Mar 20, 2022)
What's Changed

Support for IDA 7.4+ (Including 7.7 onwards)

Added version check for deprecated API functions

Full Changelog: https://github.com/mcdulltii/obfDetect/compare/v1.6...v1.7
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
obfDetect.zip(81.67 KB)
v1.6(Feb 19, 2022)
What's Changed

Refactor plugin handler

Removed duplicate banner print

Changed PLUGIN_FIX to PLUGIN_HIDE, user can just use Ctrl-Shift-H

Code cleanup in https://github.com/mcdulltii/obfDetect/pull/5

Full Changelog: https://github.com/mcdulltii/obfDetect/compare/v1.5...v1.6
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
v1.5(Sep 6, 2021)
GUI Implementation

GUI Features:

QTable Heuristic result view

Node limiting

Single/All function heuristic search

Heuristic result export

Heuristic Features:

Control-Flow Flattening

Cyclomatic Complexity

Basic Block Size

Instruction Overlapping

Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
obfDetect.zip(81.64 KB)
v1.4(Aug 29, 2021)
Heuristic Features:

Control-Flow Flattening

Cyclomatic Complexity

Basic Block Size

Instruction Overlapping

Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
obfDetect.zip(78.77 KB)

Automatically detect obfuscated code and other state machines

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Overview

Obfuscation Detection

Description:

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Usage

Examples

Todo

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What's Changed

v1.6(Feb 19, 2022)

What's Changed

v1.5(Sep 6, 2021)

GUI Implementation

GUI Features:

Heuristic Features:

v1.4(Aug 29, 2021)

Heuristic Features:

Owner

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