With the thriving of the mobile app markets, third-party libraries are pervasively integrated in
the Android applications. Third-party libraries provide functionality such as advertisements …

Software vulnerability is one of the major threats to software security. Once discovered,
vulnerabilities are often fixed by applying security patches. In that sense, security patches …

Detecting differences between two binary executables (binary diffing), first derived from
patch analysis, have been widely employed in various software security analysis tasks, such …

With millions of apps available to users, the mobile app market is rapidly becoming very
crowded. Given the intense competition, the time to market is a critical factor for the success …

Existing code similarity comparison methods, whether source or binary code based, are
mostly not resilient to obfuscations. Identifying similar or identical code fragments among …

Binary code clone (or similarity) detection is a fundamental technique for many important
applications, such as plagiarism detection, malware analysis, software vulnerability …

Code reuse detection is a key technique in reverse engineering. However, existing source
code similarity comparison techniques are not applicable to binary code. Moreover …

Cryptographic functions have been commonly abused by malware developers to hide
malicious behaviors, disguise destructive payloads, and bypass network-based firewalls …

Binary lifting, which is to translate a binary executable to a high-level intermediate
representation, is a primary step in binary analysis. Despite its importance, there are only …

Detecting similar functions in binary executables serves as a foundation for many binary
code analysis and reuse tasks. By far, recognizing similar components in binary code …