Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Kuenhwan Kwak

Byunghoon Kang

Donguk Kim

Minjoon Park

Yunjong Jeong

Daehee Jang

Seongman Lee

Provided is a method of protecting an application from reverse engineering. The method includes registering, in an electronic device, a handler capable of being called as a preset fault is generated in the application, after the handler is registered, executing a protection code for generating the preset fault in the application, determining whether an environment where the application is executed is an abnormal environment, based on whether the handler has been called as the protection code is executed, and performing an operation for protecting the application, based on a result of the determination.

Electronic device for protecting application from abnormal environment and operating method thereof

Growing community of inventors

Suwon-si, South Korea

Kuenhwan Kwak