arXiv AI

LLM Agent-Assisted Reverse Engineering with Quantitative Readability Metrics

arXiv:2606. 06838v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automatic decompilers produce functionally correct but often unreadable C code.

arXiv AI
Aug 10

Beyond Text Matching: Towards Reference-Free Evaluation for Human-Oriented Binary Reverse Engineering

arXiv:2608. 07038v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human-Oriented Binary Reverse Engineering (HOBRE) aims to transform decompiled pseudocode into a more human-friendly representation, thereby reducing the cognitive burden of reverse analysis and improving efficiency.

By Xiuwei Shang, Li Hu, Xiao Jiang, Jieke Shi, Junda He, Zhou Yang, Shaoyin Cheng, Guoqiang Chen, Weiming Zhang, David Lo
arXiv AI
6d ago

The Next Challenge for Agentic Cybersecurity: A Realistic, Contamination-Free Reverse Engineering Benchmark

arXiv:2608. 11469v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI agents are rapidly improving in cybersecurity capabilities when the source code is available for analysis, yet much of the software most consequential to cybersecurity, including malware, firmware, and proprietary applications, is available only as binaries.

By Jeremy Spence, Nicholas Assaderaghi, Jinhao Zhu, Nikil Ravi, Raluca Ada Popa, Guannan Wei, Yangruibo Ding, Zhuo Zhang
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 6

ReCodeAgent: A Multi-agent Workflow for Language-Agnostic Translation and Validation of Large-Scale Repositories

arXiv:2604. 07341v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Most repository-level code translation and validation techniques have been evaluated on a single source-target programming language (PL) pair, owing to the complex engineering effort required to adapt new PL pairs.

By Ali Reza Ibrahimzada, Brandon Paulsen, Daniel Kroening, Reyhaneh Jabbarvand
arXiv AI
Jun 17

SoK: AI-Augmented Binary Reversing

arXiv:2606. 17398v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Binary reversing is fundamental to software understanding, vulnerability discovery, malware investigation, and firmware auditing.

By Yujeong Kwon, Yiyue Zhang, Shakhzod Yuldoshkhujaev, Kexin Pei, Dokyung Song, Hyungjoon Koo