Re: Re: Flash Obfuscation

Everardo Trujillo <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.websecurity,gmane.comp.security.web-applications
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Have you looked at CloakWare? Not sure if they do Flash apps though.


Everardo Trujillo
Sony Network Entertainment
Information Security
Application Security Program Manager
O: 858.207.1585 | M: 858.774.1276


On Apr 30, 2010, at 2:00 PM, 0x4150 <[email protected]> wrote:

> My company had a pen test of the application and the tester reported
> that we should obfuscate the flash content. I would like to make it as
> difficult as possible for an attacker to reverse and understand the
> application logic. The application deals with sensitive data so I want
> to protect it (as much as possible). I was told there were ~3 products
> on the market which can obfuscate flash, but none seemed reputable.
>
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Brad Causey <[email protected]>  
> wrote:
>> What's your goal? Maybe thatll help us help you.
>>
>> On 4/30/10, Paul Melson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 2:05 AM, 0x4150 <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Has anyone done obfuscation of a flash application? If so, what
>>>> tool(s) would you recommend?
>>>
>>> I wouldn't recommend any of them as a way to actually secure  
>>> anything
>>> as the end result must still be a SWF file that Flash Player can  
>>> parse
>>> correctly, and therefore they can be decompiled or debugged in order
>>> to reverse the code.
>>>
>>> The only example of obfuscated ActionScript that I've seen to date  
>>> has
>>> been a malware dropper. In that case it was about 20 minutes by hand
>>> to reverse. About 1 minute for Wepawet to do the same.
>>>
>>> PaulM
>>>
>>>
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