Extending Source Code Pre-Trained Language Models to Summarise Decompiled Binaries

Binary reverse engineering is used to understand and analyse programs for which the source code is unavailable. Decompilers can help, transforming opaque binaries into a more readable source code-like representation. Still, reverse engineering is difficult and costly, involving considering effort in labelling code with helpful summaries....

An Empirical Assessment on the Limits of Binary Code Summarization with Transformer-based Models

Reverse engineering binaries is required to understand and analyse programs for which the source code is unavailable. Decompilers can transform the largely unreadable binaries into a more readable source code-like representation. However, many aspects of source code, such as variable names and comments, are lost during the compilation and...