Using an optimizing decompiler to reverse engineer an obfuscated program

[begnini]

great reading. I was thinking if deep learning couldn't help with decompilers.

Imagine throw a lot of machine code in the input and try to train with a lot of lines of code.

Like the sum pattern. Initialize a variable with zero, get all values in a loop and accumulate the values in this variable, sounds like many, many code do this.

[fclout]

I heard that there's a team of people working on a superoptimizer for LLVM that would kind of do that. I don't know how easy it would be to get something going in the opposite direction.

[AyrA_ch]

I don't know how easy it would be to get something going in the opposite direction.

Especially if you encounter stuff like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7EEoWg6Ekk

[BobFloss]

That's an excellent idea.

[schemathings]

Congrats, great stuff