---
id: 4473
title: "Epona and the Obfuscation Paradox: Transparent for Users, a Pain for Reversers"
source_domain: blog.quarkslab.com
source_url: "https://blog.quarkslab.com/epona-and-the-obfuscation-paradox-transparent-for-users-a-pain-for-reversers.html"
published_at: "2019-09-10T22:00:00Z"
tags: ["reverse-engineering", "obfuscation", "compilers", "software-protection", "quarkslab", "epona"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4473"
lang: en
---

# Epona and the Obfuscation Paradox: Transparent for Users, a Pain for Reversers

## Summary

How Quarkslab's Epona obfuscator addresses the usability-versus-protection paradox: defining a tailored obfuscation scheme, checking its properties, and combining passes that target VM artifacts.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.quarkslab.com
- **Published:** 2019-09-10T22:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://blog.quarkslab.com/epona-and-the-obfuscation-paradox-transparent-for-users-a-pain-for-reversers.html
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4473