# Firmware-Analysis-Papers

> A single-README reading list of 28 academic security papers on firmware and embedded-system analysis, grouped by year from 2013 to 2021. It covers rehosting and emulation, firmware fuzzing, symbolic execution, Bluetooth and baseband analysis and bug detection in Linux-based and bare-metal firmware. Each entry is a title linked to a PDF or publisher page, with its venue such as USENIX Security, NDSS, IEEE S&P or CCS.

- Type: Collection
- Targets: Firmware
- Category: Related resource lists
- Relationship: Learning resource
- Sources reviewed: 2026-10-27
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-03
- Original resource: <https://github.com/onehouwong/Firmware-Analysis-Papers>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/onehouwong/Firmware-Analysis-Papers/blob/3cfec539b6570307412909a3959b6fbc24c75af6/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/firmware-analysis-papers-list/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/firmware-analysis-papers-list/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/firmware-analysis-papers-list/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- The reviewed README, last changed 2021-08-30, lists 28 papers: 10 from 2021, 7 from 2020, 4 from 2019, one from 2018 and 6 under “2017 and Before”, the oldest from 2013. The list has not been updated since, so later work such as Fuzzware (USENIX Security 2022) is absent.
- Entries give only a title, a link and a venue label, with no summaries, code, artifact or citation details. Most links go to PDFs on conference, author or arXiv sites; the rest go to an IEEE Xplore page, ResearchGate, or ACM Digital Library URLs carrying session tokens, which may stop working. Year labels can differ from publication years: Firmadyne is labeled NDSS 2017, matching its link's 2017 upload folder.
- The repository holds only README.md and no license file, so the list states no reuse terms; the papers keep their authors' and publishers' rights. An independent reading list.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/onehouwong/Firmware-Analysis-Papers/blob/3cfec539b6570307412909a3959b6fbc24c75af6/README.md>

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## About this entry

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