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Structural and differential analysis for program comprehension of executables
Citation Link: https://doi.org/10.15480/882.1506
Publikationstyp
Doctoral Thesis
Date Issued
2017
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Advisor
Referee
Title Granting Institution
Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
Place of Title Granting Institution
Hamburg
Examination Date
2017-12-07
Institut
TORE-DOI
We present a structural analysis (SA) that identifies key positions for program comprehension of executables, and
a differential analysis (DA) that identifies similarities between pairs of executables. Our SA is based on a new way
of abstracting statement-level control-flow information to a representation with a graphical view that allows an
intuitive identification of several provided patterns. Our DA is based on sequence alignments and only needs the
position and size information of the functions. We manually validate the SA on a set of diverse executables and in
one detailed case study, and automatically validate the DA on three sets of executables, namely sets of similar and
dissimmilar executables as well as a set of academic executables obtained from a third party.
a differential analysis (DA) that identifies similarities between pairs of executables. Our SA is based on a new way
of abstracting statement-level control-flow information to a representation with a graphical view that allows an
intuitive identification of several provided patterns. Our DA is based on sequence alignments and only needs the
position and size information of the functions. We manually validate the SA on a set of diverse executables and in
one detailed case study, and automatically validate the DA on three sets of executables, namely sets of similar and
dissimmilar executables as well as a set of academic executables obtained from a third party.
Subjects
Kontrollflussinformationen
Sequenzalignments
DDC Class
004: Informatik
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