Detecting return-oriented programming payloads by evaluating data for a gadget address space address and determining whether operations associated with instructions beginning at the address indicate a return-oriented programming payload

Abstract

Systems, methods, and media for detecting the presence of return-oriented programming (ROP) payloads are provided, comprising: identifying a potential gadget address space; determining if a piece of the data corresponds to an address of the potential gadget address space; and in response to determining that the piece of the data corresponds to an address of the potential gadget address space: determining whether a plurality of operations, each associated one of a plurality instructions beginning at the address, indicates that an ROP payload is present in the data, and indicating that an ROP payload is present in the data in response to making a determination that a plurality of operations indicates that an ROP payload is present in the data a given number of times.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A system for detecting the presence of a return-oriented programming (ROP) payload in data, comprising:
 a hardware processor that:
 identifies a potential gadget address space; 
 determines if a piece of the data corresponds to an address of the potential gadget address space; and 
 in response to determining that the piece of the data corresponds to an address of the potential gadget address space:
 determines whether a plurality of operations, each associated one of a plurality instructions beginning at the address, indicates that an ROP payload is present in the data, and 
 indicates that an ROP payload is present in the data in response to making a determination that a plurality of operations indicates that an ROP payload is present in the data a given number of times.