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Abstract

With increasing availability of knowledge over Internet, it has become so common that any novice can go way beyond his technical ability to crack any licensed software and use it like any legitimate user. Reverse Engineering has been one of the prominent techniques to crack the software with hash code if not the high level language. The paper discusses a novel architecture where the effect of any such hacking effort in nullified. The paper narrates various static and dynamic techniques for anti reverse engineering and the need for integrating such techniques into the packers or installers. Whatsoever the software and the purpose be, the anti reverse engineering installers or packaging pieces of code can be equipped with minimal prevention against reversing attacks, which may be mandatory in future . The virtualization techniques are the key to the proposed system. The installer or unpacking software is equipped with the proposed techniques, so that the reverse engineering efforts may be thwarted successfully.