SBIR/STTR Research Award
Deobfuscating tools for the validation and verification of tamper-proofed software
Award amount
$99,999Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2006Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- GRAMMATECH INC
- Proposal award date
- 2006-07-26
- Contract end date
- 2007-01-26
- UEI
- CBXRSPNRF8F9
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- OSD06-NC5
Research abstract
We propose a deobfuscation tool that uses machine-code analysis to expose self-protecting malware for further analysis (e.g., by an automated malware detector, or a human analyst) using dynamic disassembly techniques. The proposed deobfuscator will also be capable of checking that the (self-protecting) program output from a tamper-proofing tool is indeed protected, and has the same behavior as the input program. Our approach combines the strengths of static analysis and dynamic analysis. This allows us to have the precision of dynamic analysis, but with much better coverage, thus recovering some of the completeness of static analysis.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- REAFFIRM: Reverse Engineer, Analyze, and Fix Firmware
- Scalpel-Debloat
- FPGA Hardening Against Vulnerabilities and Radiation Effects
- CRAM: C++ to Rust Assisted Migration PH2
- Automated Malware Generation for Avionics Cyber Resiliency
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Deobfuscating tools for the validation and verification of tamper-proofed software
- Formal-Verification-Based Tool for Deobfuscation of Tamper-Proofed Software
- Deobfuscating tools for the validation and verification of tamper-proofed software
Research funding history
132 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1989–2025). Reported award amounts total $51,342,070. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Homeland Security, National Science Foundation, Department of Commerce