Breaking Mixed Boolean-Arithmetic Obfuscation in Real-World Applications

Tim Blazytko, Nicolò Altamura

REcon 2025 · Day 1 · Main Track

Mixed Boolean-Arithmetic (MBA) obfuscation is one of the most mathematically sophisticated code-protection techniques in use today — turning a trivial expression like `X + Y` into a sprawling tangle o

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