Noctilucence

LLVM-Based tool that statically extract the Bitcode section from an object file, run passes on it and recompile/link it again.
Note that currently only support for MachOs built by Apple Clang is implemented

License

Please refer to License.

Note that this linked version of license text overrides any artifact left in source code

Why

Existing implementations suck because they do all the following which is plain retarded design in my opinion:

• Invoke a ton of processes through posix_spawn, Noctilucence only invokes system's linker due to the lack of MachO support in LLD
• Instead of correctly handling linker flags, they tend to hard-encode linker flags

Usage

The following arguments are required:

• -i= Path to input executable
• -o= Path to output executable
• -dump-ir Dump Obfuscated IR in text representation to Path to output executable.ll for other more advanced usage

The following arguments are automatically detected

• -sdkroot= Path to SDKROOT, default to /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS.sdk
• -ldpath= Path to LD executable, default to /usr/bin/ld

Limitations

Noctilucence directly uses LLVM's CodeGen without invoking a ton of processes and it's doing so by implementing a minimum implementation stripped down from llc, which means it could be less stable in cases. But then again this is just a toy project and serves as PoC purpose only. Furthermore it lacks the following features that might be useful but not critical

• Automatically extract binary from IPAs/APKs
• Extracting object files from static libraries. Note this is hard to implement due to LLVM's broken llvm::object::Archive on Darwin.
• For whatever reason the embedded BitCode has been stripped, which removes many symbols and metadatas that the open-source version of Hikari depends on, essentially disabling non-CFG obfuscation passes like AntiClassDump and FunctionCallObfuscate, which means you probably shouldn't enable those passes. Maybe instead figure out how to tell Xcode/Clang not to strip them? Meh I couldn't care less

Compiling

git clone https://github.com/HikariObfuscator/Noctilucence.git LLVM_SOURCE_ROOT/tools/ and compile the whole LLVM suite with it

Demonstration