HexT5: Unified Pre-Training for Stripped Binary Code Information Inference

Decompilation is a widely used process for reverse engineers to significantly enhance code readability by lifting assembly code to a higher-level C-like language, pseudo-code. Nevertheless, the process of compilation and stripping irreversibly discards high-level semantic information that is crucial...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering : [proceedings] S. 774 - 786
Hauptverfasser: Xiong, Jiaqi, Chen, Guoqiang, Chen, Kejiang, Gao, Han, Cheng, Shaoyin, Zhang, Weiming
Format: Tagungsbericht
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: IEEE 11.09.2023
Schlagworte:
Binary codes
Binary Diffing
Computer languages
Data mining
Deep Learning
Information Inference
Natural languages
Object recognition
Programming Language Model
Reverse Engineering
Semantics
Task analysis
ISSN:2643-1572
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Zusammenfassung:Decompilation is a widely used process for reverse engineers to significantly enhance code readability by lifting assembly code to a higher-level C-like language, pseudo-code. Nevertheless, the process of compilation and stripping irreversibly discards high-level semantic information that is crucial to code comprehension, such as comments, identifier names, and types. Existing approaches typically recover only one type of information, making them suboptimal for semantic inference. In this paper, we treat pseudo-code as a special programming language, then present a unified pre-trained model, HexT5, that is trained on vast amounts of natural language comments, source identifiers, and pseudo-code using novel pseudo-code-based pre-training objectives. We fine-tune HexT5 on various downstream tasks, including code summarization, variable name recovery, function name recovery, and similarity detection. Comprehensive experiments show that HexT5 achieves state-of-the-art performance on four downstream tasks, and it demonstrates the robust effectiveness and generalizability of HexT5 for binary-related tasks.
ISSN:2643-1572
DOI:10.1109/ASE56229.2023.00099