Re: Decompiling Obfuscated code...
Ramesh wrote:
Hi all,
I recently had to 'de-obfuscate'(not exactly, may be I can
call it decompile-and-compile-that-code-again with a bit of
undestanding) a java class file from a J2ME application, to customize
it according to my needs. I used JAD(a small, free and fast Java
Decompiler). It was successful in decompiling most of the classes but
a few important class files were so much obfuscated so that the
generated java code won't compile. I found codes like this in the java
file generated.
I think this is not a valid code.
It's not.
Can anyone please tell me which decompiler I can use so that i don't get such instructions. I don't
need the code to be de-obfuscated(which I know is impossible), but to
be a compiling, decompiled class file.
AFAIK, no Java decompiler is capable of producing fully working code in
mildly-obfuscated cases. For this reason, I prefer to decompile any
complex code by hand from the output of "javap -c"; it's long but is
probably more correct.
In the code above, if I were to remove all the goto's, should I
arrange those scraps of codes in the same sequential manner the goto's
occur. Or, are the goto's a ruse of the obfuscation, so that i may
ignore the occurrence and the arrangement of gotos.
I would try to rearrange the goto's together, although the usage of the
goto's instead of actual code implies irreducible graph configurations
that complicate things.
Thanks,
Ramesh
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