This lets us start taking advantage of featurs from Go 1.23,
particularly tracking aliases in go/types and iterators.
Note that we need to add code to properly handle or skip over the new
*types.Alias type which go/types produces for Go type aliases.
Also note that we actually turn this mode off entirely for now,
due to the bug reported at https://go.dev/issue/70394.
We don't yet remove our own alias tracking code yet due to the above.
We hope to be able to remove it very soon.
add trash block generator
For making static code analysis even more difficult, added feature for
generating trash blocks that will never be executed. In combination
with control flow flattening makes it hard to separate trash code from
the real one, plus it causes a large number of trash references to
different methods.
Trash blocks contain 2 types of statements:
1. Function/method call with writing the results into local variables
and passing them to other calls
2. Shuffling or assigning random values to local variables
Go 1.21.0 was released in August 2023, so our upcoming release
will no longer support the Go 1.20 release series.
The first Go 1.22 release candidate is also due in December 2023,
less than a month from now, so dropping 1.20 will simplify 1.22 work.
Without hardening, obfuscation is vulnerable to analysis via symbolic
execution because all keys are opened, and it is easy to trace their
connections. Added extendable (contribution-friendly) hardening
mechanism that makes it harder to determine relationship between key and
execution block through key obfuscation.
There are 2 hardeners implemented and both are compatible with literal
obfuscation, which can make analysis even more difficult.
Daniel Martí
pagran