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Detection and Recovery of Functions and Their Arguments in a Retargetable Decompiler

ĎURFINA, L.; KŘOUSTEK, J.; ZEMEK, P.; KÁBELE, B. Detection and Recovery of Functions and Their Arguments in a Retargetable Decompiler. 19th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2012). Kingston, Ontario: IEEE Computer Society, 2012. p. 51-60. ISBN: 978-0-7695-4891-3.
Type
conference paper
Language
English
Authors
Ďurfina Lukáš, Ing., Ph.D., DIFS (FIT)
Křoustek Jakub, Ing., Ph.D., DIFS (FIT)
Zemek Petr, Ing., Ph.D., DIFS (FIT)
Kábele Břetislav, Ing.
Abstract

Detection and recovery of high-level control structures, such as functions and their arguments, plays an important role in decompilation. It has a direct impact on the quality of the generated code because it is needed for generating functionally equivalent and highly readable code. In this paper, we present an innovative, platform-independent method of detection and recovery of functions and their arguments. This method is based on static code interpretation and iterative bidirectional search over reconstructed basic blocks. This approach has been adopted and tested in an existing retargetable decompiler. Experimental results can be found at the end of the paper.

Keywords

decompilation, reverse engineering, control-flow analysis, function detection, Lissom

URL
Published
2012
Pages
51–60
Proceedings
19th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2012)
Conference
19th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
ISBN
978-0-7695-4891-3
Publisher
IEEE Computer Society
Place
Kingston, Ontario
DOI
10.1109/WCRE.2012.15
BibTeX 
@inproceedings{BUT97003,
  author="Lukáš {Ďurfina} and Jakub {Křoustek} and Petr {Zemek} and Břetislav {Kábele}",
  title="Detection and Recovery of Functions and Their Arguments in a Retargetable Decompiler",
  booktitle="19th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2012)",
  year="2012",
  pages="51--60",
  publisher="IEEE Computer Society",
  address="Kingston, Ontario",
  doi="10.1109/WCRE.2012.15",
  isbn="978-0-7695-4891-3",
  url="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6385101"
}
Projects
Advanced recognition and presentation of multimedia data, BUT, Vnitřní projekty VUT, FIT-S-11-2, start: 2011-01-01, end: 2013-12-31, completed
Centrum excelence IT4Innovations, MŠMT, Operační program Výzkum a vývoj pro inovace, ED1.1.00/02.0070, start: 2011-01-01, end: 2015-12-31, completed
System for Support of Platform Independent Malware Analysis in Executable Files, TAČR, Program aplikovaného výzkumu a experimentálního vývoje ALFA, TA01010667, start: 2011-01-01, end: 2013-12-31, completed
Research groups
Hardware-Software Codesign research group (RG LISSOM)
Departments
Department of Information Systems (DIFS)
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