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Design of an Automatically Generated Retargetable Decompiler

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

Originální název

Design of an Automatically Generated Retargetable Decompiler

Typ

článek ve sborníku mimo WoS a Scopus

Jazyk

angličtina

Originální abstrakt

Accurate program decompilation is one of the most difficult tasks of reverse engineering. Currently, there exist several single-purpose decompilers targeted on a particular platform (e.g. Intel x86 architecture and Microsoft Windows OS) and on a particular language. These tools are always hand-written by the author from scratch. This paper presents a concept of a retargetable reverse compiler (i.e. a  decompiler). This tool translates platform-specific binary applications into a high-level language (HLL) representation. A Python-like language was chosen as the target language, but the decompiler can be easily extended to other target languages. Our unique solution is automatically generated from the target platform description. It exploits the architecture description language ISAC for describing the target platform and the LLVM Compiler System as the core of the decompiler. The proof of our concept is presented on a Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) handheld game console. As can be seen from the experimental results, we are able to automatically generate a decompiler producing a highly readable HLL code for this platform while preserving the functional equivalency with the original application.

Klíčová slova

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

Autoři

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

Rok RIV

2011

Vydáno

10. 12. 2011

Nakladatel

North Atlantic University Union

Místo

Puerto De La Cruz, Tenerife

ISBN

978-1-61804-056-5

Kniha

2nd European Conference of COMPUTER SCIENCE (ECCS'11)

Strany od

199

Strany do

204

Strany počet

6

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT76351,
  author="Lukáš {Ďurfina} and Jakub {Křoustek} and Petr {Zemek} and Dušan {Kolář} and Tomáš {Hruška} and Karel {Masařík} and Alexandr {Meduna}",
  title="Design of an Automatically Generated Retargetable Decompiler",
  booktitle="2nd European Conference of COMPUTER SCIENCE (ECCS'11)",
  year="2011",
  pages="199--204",
  publisher="North Atlantic University Union",
  address="Puerto De La Cruz, Tenerife",
  isbn="978-1-61804-056-5"
}