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Binary analysis is a core component of many critical security tasks, including reverse engineering, malware analysis, and vulnerability detection. Manual analysis is often time-consuming, but identifying commonly-used or previously-seen…

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Learning to hash is an efficient paradigm for exact and approximate nearest neighbor search from massive databases. Binary hash codes are typically extracted from an image by rounding output features from a CNN, which is trained on a…

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Mutation analysis is an effective technique to evaluate a test suite adequacy in terms of revealing unforeseen bugs in software. Traditional source- or IR-level mutation analysis is not applicable to the software only available in binary…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Mohsen Ahmadi , Pantea Kiaei , Navid Emamdoost

Recovering high-level type information in binaries is a key task in reverse engineering and binary analysis. Binaries contain very little explicit type information. The structure of binary code is incredibly flexible allowing for ad-hoc…

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Binary code similarity analysis (BCSA) is widely used for diverse security applications, including plagiarism detection, software license violation detection, and vulnerability discovery. Despite the surging research interest in BCSA, it is…

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Similar vulnerability repeats in real-world software products because of code reuse, especially in wildly reused third-party code and libraries. Detecting repeating vulnerabilities like 1-day and N-day vulnerabilities is an important cyber…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Zian Liu , Lei Pan , Chao Chen , Ejaz Ahmed , Shigang Liu , Jun Zhang , Dongxi Liu

Binary code analysis plays a pivotal role in the field of software security and is widely used in tasks such as software maintenance, malware detection, software vulnerability discovery, patch analysis, etc. However, unlike source code,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Xiuwei Shang , Zhenkan Fu , Shaoyin Cheng , Guoqiang Chen , Gangyang Li , Li Hu , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

Code clones are duplicate code fragments that share (nearly) similar syntax or semantics. Code clone detection plays an important role in software maintenance, code refactoring, and reuse. A substantial amount of research has been conducted…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Nikita Mehrotra , Navdha Agarwal , Piyush Gupta , Saket Anand , David Lo , Rahul Purandare

Binary function similarity detection plays an important role in a wide range of security applications. Existing works usually assume that the query function and target function share equal semantics and compare their full semantics to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Ang Jia , Ming Fan , Xi Xu , Wuxia Jin , Haijun Wang , Ting Liu

Code cloning negatively affects industrial software and threatens intellectual property. This paper presents a novel approach to detecting cloned software by using a bijective matching technique. The proposed approach focuses on increasing…

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Code clone detection is involved with detecting duplicated fragments of code within a code base. Detecting these clones is useful for maintenance operations which require editing the clones. The tools developed are expected to be robust…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Ogechi Onuoha

Binary authorship analysis is a significant problem in many software engineering applications. In this paper, we formulate a binary authorship verification task to accurately reflect the real-world working process of software forensic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Qige Song , Yongzheng Zhang , Linshu Ouyang , Yige Chen

When reverse engineering a binary, the analyst must first understand the semantics of the binary's functions through either manual or automatic analysis. Manual semantic analysis is time-consuming, because abstractions provided by high…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Derrick McKee , Nathan Burow , Mathias Payer

The code clone detection method based on semantic similarity has important value in software engineering tasks (e.g., software evolution, software reuse). Traditional code clone detection technologies pay more attention to the similarity of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Cheng Huang , Hui Zhou , Chunyang Ye , Bingzhuo Li

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…

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Software clones are beneficial to detect security gaps and software maintenance in one programming language or across multiple languages. The existing work on source clone detection performs well but in a single programming language.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Mohammad A. Yahya , Dae-Kyoo Kim

Binary Code Similarity Detection (BCSD) is significant for software security as it can address binary tasks such as malicious code snippets identification and binary patch analysis by comparing code patterns. Recently, there has been a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Kaiyan He , Yikun Hu , Xuehui Li , Yunhao Song , Yubo Zhao , Dawu Gu

The problem of cross-platform binary code similarity detection aims at detecting whether two binary functions coming from different platforms are similar or not. It has many security applications, including plagiarism detection, malware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Xiaojun Xu , Chang Liu , Qian Feng , Heng Yin , Le Song , Dawn Song

Given a binary executable without source code, it is difficult to determine what each function in the binary does by reverse engineering it, and even harder without prior experience and context. In this paper, we performed a comparison of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Haoxi Tan

We introduce Bin2Vec, a new framework that helps compare software programs in a clear and explainable way. Instead of focusing only on one type of information, Bin2Vec combines what a program looks like (its built-in functions, imports, and…

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