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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.

Originální název

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

Typ

článek ve sborníku mimo WoS a Scopus

Jazyk

angličtina

Originální abstrakt

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.

Klíčová slova

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

Autoři

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

Vydáno

14. 10. 2011

Nakladatel

Masaryk University

Místo

Brno

ISBN

978-80-214-4305-1

Kniha

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

Strany od

114

Strany do

114

Strany počet

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"
}