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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

Binary code analysis plays a pivotal role in various software security applications, such as software maintenance, malware detection, software vulnerability discovery, patch analysis, etc. However, unlike source code, understanding binary…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Xiuwei Shang , Shaoyin Cheng , Guoqiang Chen , Yanming Zhang , Li Hu , Xiao Yu , Gangyang Li , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

Binary code analysis allows analyzing binary code without having access to the corresponding source code. A binary, after disassembly, is expressed in an assembly language. This inspires us to approach binary analysis by leveraging ideas…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Fei Zuo , Xiaopeng Li , Patrick Young , Lannan Luo , Qiang Zeng , Zhexin Zhang

The recent progress of artificial intelligence(AI) has shown great potentials for alleviating human burden in various complex tasks. From the view of software engineering, AI techniques can be seen in many fundamental aspects of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Wenhe Zhang , Jin He , Kevin Song

Binary code similarity detection is a core task in reverse engineering. It supports malware analysis and vulnerability discovery by identifying semantically similar code in different contexts. Modern methods have progressed from manually…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Charles E. Gagnon , Steven H. H. Ding , Philippe Charland , Benjamin C. M. Fung

Binary analysis plays a pivotal role in security domains such as malware detection and vulnerability discovery, yet it remains labor-intensive and heavily reliant on expert knowledge. General-purpose large language models (LLMs) perform…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Guoqiang Chen , Huiqi Sun , Daguang Liu , Zhiqi Wang , Qiang Wang , Bin Yin , Lu Liu , Lingyun Ying

Binary rewriting is a rapidly-maturing technique for modifying software for instrumentation, customization, optimization, and hardening without access to source code. Unfortunately, the practical applications of binary rewriting tools are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Eric Schulte , Michael D. Brown , Vlad Folts

Vulnerability prediction is valuable in identifying security issues efficiently, even though it requires the source code of the target software system, which is a restrictive hypothesis. This paper presents an experimental study to predict…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-01 D. Cotroneo , F. C. Grasso , R. Natella , V. Orbinato

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 code analysis has immense importance in the research domain of software security. Today, software is very often compiled for various Instruction Set Architectures (ISAs). As a result, cross-architecture binary code analysis has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Iftakhar Ahmad , Lannan Luo

Binary-source code matching plays an important role in many security and software engineering related tasks such as malware detection, reverse engineering and vulnerability assessment. Currently, several approaches have been proposed for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Yi Gui , Yao Wan , Hongyu Zhang , Huifang Huang , Yulei Sui , Guandong Xu , Zhiyuan Shao , Hai Jin

Binary program comprehension is critical for many use cases but is difficult, suffering from compounded uncertainty and lack of full automation. We seek methods to improve the effectiveness of the human-machine joint cognitive system…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Dennis Brown , Emily Mulder , Samuel Mulder

In software reverse engineering, decompilation is the process of recovering source code from binary files. Decompilers are used when it is necessary to understand or analyze software for which the source code is not available. Although…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Javier Escalada , Ted Scully , Francisco Ortin

Reverse engineering of binary executables is a critical problem in the computer security domain. On the one hand, malicious parties may recover interpretable source codes from the software products to gain commercial advantages. On the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Cheng Fu , Huili Chen , Haolan Liu , Xinyun Chen , Yuandong Tian , Farinaz Koushanfar , Jishen Zhao

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

Retrieving binary code via natural language queries is a pivotal capability for downstream tasks in the software security domain, such as vulnerability detection and malware analysis. However, it is challenging to identify binary functions…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Guoqiang Chen , Lingyun Ying , Ziyang Song , Daguang Liu , Qiang Wang , Zhiqi Wang , Li Hu , Shaoyin Cheng , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

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…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Dongkwan Kim , Eunsoo Kim , Sang Kil Cha , Sooel Son , Yongdae Kim

While third-party libraries are extensively reused to enhance productivity during software development, they can also introduce potential security risks such as vulnerability propagation. Software composition analysis, proposed to identify…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Ling Jiang , Junwen An , Huihui Huang , Qiyi Tang , Sen Nie , Shi Wu , Yuqun Zhang

This study investigates the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), specifically GPT-4, in the context of Binary Reverse Engineering (RE). Employing a structured experimental approach, we analyzed the LLM's performance in interpreting…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Saman Pordanesh , Benjamin Tan

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…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Ian Smith
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