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The development of machine learning techniques for discovering software vulnerabilities relies fundamentally on the availability of appropriate datasets. The ideal dataset consists of a large and diverse collection of real-world…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Sima Arasteh , Georgios Nikitopoulos , Wei-Cheng Wu , Nicolaas Weideman , Aaron Portnoy , Mukund Raghothaman , Christophe Hauser

The capability of accurately determining code similarity is crucial in many tasks related to software development. For example, it might be essential to identify code duplicates for performing software maintenance. This research introduces…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Jorge Martinez-Gil

Third-party libraries (TPLs) are extensively utilized by developers to expedite the software development process and incorporate external functionalities. Nevertheless, insecure TPL reuse can lead to significant security risks. Existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Siyuan Li , Yongpan Wang , Chaopeng Dong , Shouguo Yang , Hong Li , Hao Sun , Zhe Lang , Zuxin Chen , Weijie Wang , Hongsong Zhu , Limin Sun

The widespread code reuse allows vulnerabilities to proliferate among a vast variety of firmware. There is an urgent need to detect these vulnerable code effectively and efficiently. By measuring code similarities, AI-based binary code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Shouguo Yang , Chaopeng Dong , Yang Xiao , Yiran Cheng , Zhiqiang Shi , Zhi Li , Limin Sun

Where can we find malware source code? This question is motivated by a real need: there is a dearth of malware source code, which impedes various types of security research. Our work is driven by the following insight: public archives, like…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Md Omar Faruk Rokon , Risul Islam , Ahmad Darki , Vagelis E. Papalexakis , Michalis Faloutsos

For high-assurance software, source-level reasoning is insufficient: we need binary-level guarantees. Despite constrained Horn clause (CHC) solving being one of the most popular forms of automated verification, prior work has not evaluated…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Aaron Bembenek , Toby Murray

A non-binary Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) can be solved directly using extended versions of binary techniques. Alternatively, the non-binary problem can be translated into an equivalent binary one. In this case, it is generally…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-09-28 N. Samaras , K. Stergiou

Recognizing vulnerabilities in stripped binary files presents a significant challenge in software security. Although some progress has been made in generating human-readable information from decompiled binary files with Large Language…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Nasir Hussain , Haohan Chen , Chanh Tran , Philip Huang , Zhuohao Li , Pravir Chugh , William Chen , Ashish Kundu , Yuan Tian

Reproducibility is the ability of recreating identical binaries under pre-defined build environments. Due to the need of quality assurance and the benefit of better detecting attacks against build environments, the practice of reproducible…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Zhilei Ren , He Jiang , Jifeng Xuan , Zijiang Yang

Software vulnerabilities are a fundamental reason for the prevalence of cyber attacks and their identification is a crucial yet challenging problem in cyber security. In this paper, we apply and compare different machine learning algorithms…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Talaya Farasat , Joachim Posegga

Binary, or one-bit, representations of data arise naturally in many applications, and are appealing in both hardware implementations and algorithm design. In this work, we study the problem of data classification from binary data and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Deanna Needell , Rayan Saab , Tina Woolf

Source code plagiarism is a long-standing issue in tertiary computer science education. Many source code plagiarism detection tools have been proposed to aid in the detection of source code plagiarism. However, existing detection tools are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Hayden Cheers , Yuqing Lin , Shamus P. Smith

Given a closed-source program, such as most of proprietary software and viruses, binary code analysis is indispensable for many tasks, such as code plagiarism detection and malware analysis. Today, source code is very often compiled for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Kimberly Redmond , Lannan Luo , Qiang Zeng

Binary Function Similarity Detection (BFSD) is a foundational technique in software security, underpinning a wide range of applications including vulnerability detection, malware analysis. Recent advances in AI-based BFSD tools have led to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Jingyi Shi , Yufeng Chen , Yang Xiao , Yuekang Li , Zhengzi Xu , Sihao Qiu , Chi Zhang , Keyu Qi , Yeting Li , Xingchu Chen , Yanyan Zou , Yang Liu , Wei Huo

This paper is the result of a two month research internship on the topic of library version identification. In this paper, ideas and techniques from literature in the area of binary comparison and fingerprinting are outlined and applied to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Thomas Rinsma

Binary Code Similarity Detection (BCSD) is not only essential for security tasks such as vulnerability identification but also for code copying detection, yet it remains challenging due to binary stripping and diverse compilation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Li Zhou , Marc Dacier , Charalambos Konstantinou

Reverse engineering binaries is required to understand and analyse programs for which the source code is unavailable. Decompilers can transform the largely unreadable binaries into a more readable source code-like representation. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Ali Al-Kaswan , Toufique Ahmed , Maliheh Izadi , Anand Ashok Sawant , Premkumar Devanbu , Arie van Deursen

Security experts reverse engineer (decompile) binary code to identify critical security vulnerabilities. The limited access to source code in vital systems - such as firmware, drivers, and proprietary software used in Critical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Dylan Manuel , Nafis Tanveer Islam , Joseph Khoury , Ana Nunez , Elias Bou-Harb , Peyman Najafirad

Vulnerability reproduction paves a way in debugging software failures, which need intensive manual efforts. However, some key factors (e.g., software configuration, trigger method) are often missing, so we can not directly reproduce the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Ligeng Chen , Jian Guo , Zhongling He , Dongliang Mu , Bing Mao

Binary similarity analysis is critical to many code-reuse-related issues and "1-to-1" mechanism is widely applied, where one function in a binary file is matched against one function in a source file or binary file. However, we discover…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Ang Jia , Ming Fan , Wuxia Jin , Xi Xu , Zhaohui Zhou , Qiyi Tang , Sen Nie , Shi Wu , Ting Liu