A Systematic Literature Review of Decompilation

This page contains a systematic literature review of binary decompilation. For the introduction of SLR, check here.

Background

The technique of decompilation still has significant limitations, as existing research on [lifter sok] and [fidelity issue] demonstrates. This indicates that there is still a lot of room for improvement in decompilers.

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Research Question

Search Strategy

Keywords: Decompilation OR Decompiler OR Decompile

Search Process

Paper Repositories: Important paper repositories covered in findpapers: IEEE Xplore, ACM, Scopus, arXiv. Other important conference: Usenix, NDSS, DBLP.

Steps:

  • Follow the usage of the tool findpapers
    • Apply for access keys for IEEE and scorpus.
    • using this command: (findpapers 0.6.7, 2024-02-03, the generated json file can be downloaded here.) 
      findpapers search ./search.json --token-ieee "$IEEE_TOKEN" --token-scopus "$SCOPUS_TOKEN" -q "[decompile] OR [decompiling] OR [decompiler] OR [decompilation]"

Study Selection Criteria

  • Language: English