{"title":"Symbolic interpretation of legacy assembly language","authors":"J. Carette, P. K. Chowdhury","doi":"10.1109/WCRE.2005.31","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We apply static analysis and symbolic interpretation techniques to reverse engineer the semantics of legacy assembler code. We examine the case of IBM-1800 programs in detail. From the documented operational semantics of the IBM-1800, we simultaneously obtain an emulator and a symbolic analysis program. Augmented with some control flow information, we can use the symbolic analysis to provide both complete and generic semantics for some interesting code sequences.","PeriodicalId":119724,"journal":{"name":"12th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE'05)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2005-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"12th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE'05)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WCRE.2005.31","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We apply static analysis and symbolic interpretation techniques to reverse engineer the semantics of legacy assembler code. We examine the case of IBM-1800 programs in detail. From the documented operational semantics of the IBM-1800, we simultaneously obtain an emulator and a symbolic analysis program. Augmented with some control flow information, we can use the symbolic analysis to provide both complete and generic semantics for some interesting code sequences.