Mitigating Debugger-based Attacks to Java Applications with Self-Debugging

Introduction

This repository collects complementary material for the article "Mitigating Debugger-based Attacks to Java Applications with Self-Debugging".

This repository contains the following folders:

• Java Debugger Protection: the Java-level anti-debugging protection against the JDB;
• Debugging Tasks: the list of debugging tasks;
• Experimentation Tool: the experimental framework automating debugging tasks for the assessment of anti-debugging protections;
• Experimental Results: the experimental results obtained by running the experimental framework on the Java and native debugger protections.

the anti-debugging protection for native-level debuggers in Unix-like operating systems can be found in a dedicated repository.

License

Copyright 2022, jointly held by Osaka University, Fondazione Bruno Kessler and University of Verona

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Developed within the Osaka University (Japan), the Security & Trust Research Unit at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy) and the University of Verona (Italy)