Obfuscating Windows DLLs

We present two techniques to obfuscate the interfaces between application binaries and Windows system DLLs (dynamic-link libraries). The first technique obfuscates the related symbol information in the binary to prevent static analyses from identifying the invoked library functions. The second technique combines static linking with code obfuscation to avoid the external interface altogether, thus preventing dynamic attacks as well. This is done while still maintaining compatibility with multiple Windows versions, through run-time adaptation of the application. As the first concrete result of this ongoing research, we demonstrate and evaluate the techniques using a proof-of-concept tool applied to a simple test program.