CONFUSE: LLVM-based Code Obfuscation

In the past decade, code obfuscation techniques have become increasingly popular due to their wide applications on malware and the numerous violations of intellectual property caused by reverse engineering. In this work, we examine common techniques used for code obfuscation and provide an outline of the design principles of our tool Confuse. Confuse is an LLVM tool which modifies the standard compilation steps to produce an obfuscated binary from C source code.