# ICSREF: A Framework for Automated Reverse Engineering of Industrial Control Systems Binaries

> ICSREF automates reverse engineering of PLC binaries compiled with CODESYS. It was evaluated on collected and in-house PLC binaries and used to generate an attack against a chemical process testbed.

- Authors: Anastasis Keliris; Michail Maniatakos
- Venue: Proceedings 2019 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium
- Status: Conference paper
- Publication / posting date: 2019 (exact date not verified)
- Date source: Published date in the Crossref record for the DOI listed on arXiv.
- First arXiv submission: December 9, 2018
- arXiv: 1812.03478
- Reviewed arXiv version: v1
- DOI: 10.14722/ndss.2019.23271
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-06
- Original paper: <https://doi.org/10.14722/ndss.2019.23271>
- PDF: <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.03478>
- BibTeX: <https://awesomerea.org/papers/citations/paper-icsref.bib>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/papers/paper-icsref/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/papers/paper-icsref/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/papers/paper-icsref/index.md)

## Scope and limitations

The evaluation covers CODESYS-compiled PLC binaries from public code repositories and in-house development, plus an attack orchestrated by a commercial smartphone against a chemical process testbed.

## Why it fits this collection

It presents a framework and methodology for automated reverse engineering of industrial control system binaries.

## Publication and review notes

The DOI comes from the arXiv record, and the venue and date from Crossref.

## Primary sources

1. <https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.03478>
2. <https://api.crossref.org/works/10.14722/ndss.2019.23271>

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