A Java Birthmark based on Control Flow Graph Matching
Hee-Wan Park, Hyun-il Lim, Seokwoo Choi, Taisook Han · 2009
A software birthmark is inherent characteristics that can be used to identify a program. In this paper, we propose a new Java birthmark based on control flow graph (CFG) matching. The CFG matching consists of node matching and edge matching. To get similarities of nodes and edges of two CFGs, we apply a sequence alignment algorithm and a shortest path algorithm, respectively. To evaluate the proposed birthmark, we perform experiments on Java programs that implement various algorithms. In the experiments, the proposed birthmark shows not only high credibility and resilience but also fast runtime performance.