2026 · Preprint
Decoupling is a Necessity: Transformation-Agnostic Decompiled Code Recovery under Optimization and Obfuscation
ReSource refines decompiled functions affected by compiler optimization and obfuscation. Its stages retrieve guidance from a Semantic Distortion Database, predict a control-flow skeleton, and refine names and formatting. Evaluation measures code similarity and retrieval of the corresponding original function from a source corpus.
Scope and limitations
Function-level similarity and retrieval are proxies; they do not establish compilability, executable equivalence or complete program recovery. Section 5.2 notes missing global context and untested custom obfuscation. The author-linked artifact page describes a simplified dataset and explicitly says the database-construction and control-flow-prediction modules are not yet available.
Why it fits this collection
Adds staged refinement of optimized and obfuscated decompiler output, with explicit limits on what retrieval-based evaluation establishes.
Publication and review details
- Venue
- arXiv
- Status
- Preprint
- Publication / posting date
- August 28, 2026
- Date source
- arXiv v1 first-submission date.
- First arXiv submission
- August 28, 2026
- arXiv
- 2608.27889
- Reviewed arXiv version
- v1
Title, six-author order and preprint status agree across arXiv metadata and v1 full text. The project page links an anonymous artifact that returned HTTP 403 during review.
Sources reviewed
Reviewed against the paper and its primary sources. Cite the original authors using the linked paper or BibTeX.