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Binary code similarity detection is to detect the similarity of code at binary (assembly) level without source code. Existing works have their limitations when dealing with mutated binary code generated by different compiling options. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Zian Liu

Binary code similarity comparison is a methodology for identifying similar or identical code fragments in binary programs. It is indispensable in fields of software engineering and security, which has many important applications (e.g.,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Yikun Hu , Hui Wang , Yuanyuan Zhang , Bodong Li , Dawu Gu

The binary similarity problem consists in determining if two functions are similar by only considering their compiled form. Advanced techniques for binary similarity recently gained momentum as they can be applied in several fields, such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Luca Massarelli , Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna , Fabio Petroni , Leonardo Querzoni , Roberto Baldoni

In this paper we consider the binary similarity problem that consists in determining if two binary functions are similar only considering their compiled form. This problem is know to be crucial in several application scenarios, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Roberto Baldoni , Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna , Luca Massarelli , Fabio Petroni , Leonardo Querzoni

Binary code clone analysis is an important technique which has a wide range of applications in software engineering (e.g., plagiarism detection, bug detection). The main challenge of the topic lies in the semantics-equivalent code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Yikun Hu , Yuanyuan Zhang , Juanru Li , Hui Wang , Bodong Li , 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

Function-level binary code similarity detection is a crucial aspect of cybersecurity. It enables the detection of bugs and patent infringements in released software and plays a pivotal role in preventing supply chain attacks. A practical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Sun RuiJin , Guo Shize , Guo Jinhong , Li Wei , Zhan Dazhi , Sun Meng , Pan Zhisong

Binary Code Similarity Detection (BCSD) plays a crucial role in numerous fields, including vulnerability detection, malware analysis, and code reuse identification. As IoT devices proliferate and rapidly evolve, their highly heterogeneous…

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

Clone detection is widely exploited for software vulnerability search. The approaches based on source code analysis cannot be applied to binary clone detection because the same source code can produce significantly different binaries. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Jian Gao , Yu Jiang , Zhe Liu , Xin Yang , Cong Wang , Xun Jiao , Zijiang Yang , Jiaguang Sun

Binary Code Similarity Analysis (BCSA) has a wide spectrum of applications, including plagiarism detection, vulnerability discovery, and malware analysis, thus drawing significant attention from the security community. However, conventional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Fei Zuo , Cody Tompkins , Qiang Zeng , Lannan Luo , Yung Ryn Choe , Junghwan Rhee

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

Binary Function Similarity Detection (BFSD) is a core problem in software security, supporting tasks such as vulnerability analysis, malware classification, and patch provenance. In the past few decades, numerous models and tools have been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Yiming Fan , Jun Yeon Won , Ding Zhu , Melih Sirlanci , Mahdi Khalili , Carter Yagemann

Binary code similarity approaches compare two or more pieces of binary code to identify their similarities and differences. The ability to compare binary code enables many real-world applications on scenarios where source code may not be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Irfan Ul Haq , Juan Caballero

Enforcing open source licenses such as the GNU General Public License (GPL), analyzing a binary for possible vulnerabilities, and code maintenance are all situations where it is useful to be able to determine the source code provenance of a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-03 Dhaval Miyani , Zhen Huang , David Lie

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 similarity analysis determines if two binary executables are from the same source program. Existing techniques leverage static and dynamic program features and may utilize advanced Deep Learning techniques. Although they have…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Xiangzhe Xu , Zhou Xuan , Shiwei Feng , Siyuan Cheng , Yapeng Ye , Qingkai Shi , Guanhong Tao , Le Yu , Zhuo Zhang , Xiangyu Zhang

Binary code similarity detection is an important problem with applications in areas such as malware analysis, vulnerability research and license violation detection. This paper proposes a novel graph neural network architecture combined…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Joshua Collyer , Tim Watson , Iain Phillips

Binary Function Similarity (BFS), the problem of determining whether two binary functions originate from the same source code, has been extensively studied in recent research across security, software engineering, and machine learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Gianluca Capozzi , Anna Paola Giancaspro , Fabio Petroni , Leonardo Querzoni , Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Rebecca Saul , Chang Liu , Noah Fleischmann , Richard Zak , Kristopher Micinski , Edward Raff , James Holt

Matching binary to source code and vice versa has various applications in different fields, such as computer security, software engineering, and reverse engineering. Even though there exist methods that try to match source code with binary…

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