# 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.

- Authors: Zhiping Zhou; Xiaohong Li; Ruitao Feng; Yao Zhang; Yuekang Li; Wenbu Feng
- 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
- Sources reviewed: 2026-10-19
- Added to the catalog: 2026-10-19
- Original paper: <https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.27889>
- PDF: <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.27889v1>
- Project: <https://sites.google.com/view/resource4binary>
- BibTeX: <https://awesomerea.org/papers/citations/paper-resource.bib>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/papers/paper-resource/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/papers/paper-resource/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/papers/paper-resource/index.md)

## 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 notes

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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.27889v1>
2. <https://arxiv.org/html/2608.27889v1>
3. <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.27889v1>
4. <https://sites.google.com/view/resource4binary>
5. <https://sites.google.com/view/resource4binary/dataset-source-code>

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