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Design of a Retargetable Decompiler for a Static Platform-Independent Malware Analysis

ĎURFINA, L. KŘOUSTEK, J. ZEMEK, P. KOLÁŘ, D. HRUŠKA, T. MASAŘÍK, K. MEDUNA, A.

Original Title

Design of a Retargetable Decompiler for a Static Platform-Independent Malware Analysis

Type

article in a collection out of WoS and Scopus

Language

English

Original Abstract

Together with the massive expansion of smartphones, tablets, and other smart devices, we can notice a growing number of malware threats targeting these platforms. Software security companies are not prepared for such diversity of target platforms and there are only few techniques for platform-independent malware analysis. This is a major security issue these days. In this paper, we propose a concept of a retargetable reverse compiler (i.e. a decompiler), which is in an early stage of development. The retargetable decompiler transforms platform-specific binary applications into a high-level language (HLL) representation, which can be further analyzed in a uniform way. This tool will help with a static platform-independent malware analysis. Our unique solution is based on an exploitation of two systems that were originally not intended for such an application - the architecture description language (ADL) ISAC for a platform description and the LLVM Compiler System as the core of the decompiler. In this study, we show that our tool can produce highly readable HLL code.

Keywords

decompilation, reverse engineering, malware, LLVM, Lissom, ISAC

Authors

ĎURFINA, L.; KŘOUSTEK, J.; ZEMEK, P.; KOLÁŘ, D.; HRUŠKA, T.; MASAŘÍK, K.; MEDUNA, A.

Released

14. 10. 2011

Publisher

Masaryk University

Location

Brno

ISBN

978-80-214-4305-1

Book

7th Doctoral Workshop on Mathematical and Engineering Methods in Computer Science

Pages from

114

Pages to

114

Pages count

1

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT91276,
  author="Lukáš {Ďurfina} and Jakub {Křoustek} and Petr {Zemek} and Dušan {Kolář} and Tomáš {Hruška} and Karel {Masařík} and Alexandr {Meduna}",
  title="Design of a Retargetable Decompiler for a Static Platform-Independent Malware Analysis",
  booktitle="7th Doctoral Workshop on Mathematical and Engineering Methods in Computer Science",
  year="2011",
  pages="114--114",
  publisher="Masaryk University",
  address="Brno",
  isbn="978-80-214-4305-1"
}