Vulnerability Analysis of Intellectual Property Rights Using Reverse Engineering: Based on Software D

Abstract

To protect software piracy, software manufacturers use protective technologies such as license authentication. Despite this, attackers use software illegally by neutralizing the license authentication techniques by reverse engineering. We analyze the vulnerabilities of the software D’s license authentication techniques to find the underlying problems inherent in its existing protection techniques. The analysis reveals the code for license authentication in software D and can bypass license authentication by modifying the authentication result value or code flow. Moreover, this software provides license types such as single-user, family, educational, and corporate, and we demonstrated that all types of licenses were neutralized. In conclusion, addressing the fundamental vulnerabilities of the software D’s license authentication technology can improve the security of its license authentication technology, which is considered more robust in protecting the intellectual property rights of software.