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Note: This post is a copy of a think piece written for Hex-Rays and originally published there: https://hex-rays.com/blog/llms-have-reshaped-how-we-think-about-decompilation-and-collaboration.

Looking Back on 2024 Last year, I kicked off 2024 by paying tribute to the last 30 years of decompilation research, where I summarized work in control flow structuring.

A Recap In Part 1 of this series, we looked at the past 30 years of decompilation, providing a broad overview of how the field has been shaped.

Retrospection As 2024 begins, I’ve taken a moment to think about the last year(s) of decompilation research, since I spent most of my 2023 working on decompilation.

Last December, my colleagues and I from SEFCOM T0 competed in pwn2own 2022 where we demonstrated an exploit to get RCE in a Synology NAS.

If you’ve played enough CTF or lived long enough as a curious Computer Person, it’s likely you’ve run into a device/piece of software that is built on an architecture you’ve never reversed before.

Introduction During Insomni’hack teaser 2022, I worked on a reversing challenge called Nobus101 that ended up having a lot of fun use-cases for my debugging tool decomp2gef.

Introduction This weekend we played Tasteless 21 and they had a great series of challenges.

Challenge Description This writeup is based on two challenges from CSAW Quals 2020, blox1 and blox2 collectively known as the blox challenge. blox1 was the reversing portion, and blox2 was the pwning portion.

An overview This writeup is based on the sprint challenge in google quals 2020.