awesome-decompilation

A curated list of awesome decompilation resources and projects.

Contents

• General Overview
• Compilers
• Program Analysis
• Projects
• Decompilation Pipeline
  • General
  • Intermediate Representation
  • Type Reconstruction
  • Control-Flow Reconstruction
  • C++ Decompilation
  • Identifier Recovery
• AI-based Decompilation
• Advanced Topics
  • Search-Based Decompilation
  • Binary-Source Matching

General Overview

• Reverse Compilation Techniques

• Static Single Assignment for Decompilation

• Retargetable Analysis of Machine Code

• A Human-Centric Approach For Binary Code Decompilation

Compilers

• Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

• Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation

Program Analysis

• Principles of Program Analysis

• Data Flow Analysis: Theory and Practice

Projects

• Hex-Rays

• Ghidra

• JEB

• retdec

• rev.ng-c

• jsdec

Decompilation Pipeline

General

• Decompilers and beyond

• decomp

Intermediate Representation

• LLVM

• VEX

• Hex-Rays microcode

• BAP

• REIL

• ESIL

• LLIL

• VTIL

Type Reconstruction

• DIVINE: DIscovering Variables IN Executables

• Improved Memory-Access Analysis for x86 Executables

• TIE: Principled Reverse Engineering of Types in Binary Programs

• Polymorphic Type Inference for Machine Code

Control-Flow Reconstruction

• No More Gotos: Decompilation Using Pattern-Independent Control-Flow Structuring and Semantics-Preserving Transformations

• Helping Johnny to Analyze Malware

• A Comb for Decompiled C Code

C++ Decompilation

• SmartDec: Approaching C++ Decompilation

Identifier Recovery

• Meaningful Variable Names for Decompiled Code: A Machine Translation Approach

• Debin: Predicting Debug Information in Stripped Binaries

• DIRE: Decompiled Identifier Renaming Engine

AI-based Decompilation

• Using Recurrent Neural Networks for Decompilation

• Towards Neural Decompilation (2019)

• Coda: An End-to-End Neural Program Decompiler

• N-Bref: a neural-based decompiler framework

• Neutron: an attention-based neural decompiler

• Beyond the C: Retargetable Decompilation using Neural Machine Translation

Advanced Topics

Search-Based Decompilation

• Evolving Exact Decompilation

Binary-Source Matching

• BinPro: A Tool for Binary Source Code Provenance

• Neural Network-based Graph Embedding for Cross-Platform Binary Code Similarity Detection

• CodeCMR: Cross-Modal Retrieval For Function-Level Binary Source Code Matching