sbodwyer
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6 years ago Got this to go away by turning off certain protections - invalid metadata and resources. Also had to change the references to mono as I am using a later version
The name protection mode parameter had to be changed to 'letters' as it was causing problems.
Now Xamarin android dll is obfuscated and included in APK thanks great project :)
Hi I'm trying to obfuscate a Xamarin android dll generated by VS2017. I have included the correct references to android Mono in the project file and the all is processes successfully using confuserEX. (see log below).
However there is a reference in the outputted dll which is causing my build to fail using this dll. The new dll depends on a module called "pJMBrYFGiKklZcARmViWepvOVxBQA". I don't know where this came from but it is not in my original dll and is causing my build to fail as it can't be resolved. If I run the dll through confuserEx again the name of this reference changes to other random letters. (I can see the reference using ILSPY.
Any ideas? Thx
[INFO] ConfuserEx v1.0.0 Copyright (C) Ki 2014 [INFO] Running on Microsoft Windows NT 6.2.9200.0, .NET Framework v4.0.30319.42000, 64 bits [DEBUG] Discovering plugins... [INFO] Discovered 10 protections, 1 packers. [DEBUG] Resolving component dependency... [INFO] Loading input modules... [INFO] Loading 'TuneTracker.Android.dll'... [INFO] Initializing... [DEBUG] Building pipeline... [INFO] Resolving dependencies... [DEBUG] Checking Strong Name... [DEBUG] Creating global .cctors... [DEBUG] Watermarking... [DEBUG] Executing 'Name analysis' phase... [DEBUG] Building VTables & identifier list... [DEBUG] Analyzing... [INFO] Processing module 'TuneTracker.Android.dll'... [DEBUG] Executing 'Invalid metadata addition' phase... [DEBUG] Executing 'Renaming' phase... [DEBUG] Renaming... [DEBUG] Executing 'Anti-debug injection' phase... [DEBUG] Executing 'Anti-dump injection' phase... [DEBUG] Executing 'Anti-ILDasm marking' phase... [DEBUG] Executing 'Encoding reference proxies' phase... [DEBUG] Executing 'Constant encryption helpers injection' phase... [DEBUG] Executing 'Resource encryption helpers injection' phase... [DEBUG] Executing 'Constants encoding' phase... [DEBUG] Executing 'Anti-tamper helpers injection' phase... [DEBUG] Executing 'Control flow mangling' phase... [DEBUG] Executing 'Post-renaming' phase... [DEBUG] Executing 'Anti-tamper metadata preparation' phase... [DEBUG] Executing 'Packer info extraction' phase... [INFO] Writing module 'TuneTracker.Android.dll'... [INFO] Finalizing... [DEBUG] Saving to 'C:\Users\Shane\Documents\Visual Studio 2017\VS Projects\TuneTracker.Android\TuneTracker.Android\bin\Release\Confused\TuneTracker.Android.dll'... [DEBUG] Executing 'Export symbol map' phase... [INFO] Done. Finished at 23:23, 0:00 elapsed.