Workshop on Binary Analysis Research (BAR) 2025 Accepted Papers

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cozy: Comparative Symbolic Execution for Binary Programs

Caleb Helbling, Graham Leach-Krouse, Sam Lasser, Greg Sullivan (Draper)

dAngr: Lifting Software Debugging to a Symbolic Level

Dairo de Ruck, Jef Jacobs, Jorn Lapon, Vincent Naessens (DistriNet, KU Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium)

DRAGON: Predicting Decompiled Variable Data Types with Learned Confidence Estimates

Caleb Stewart, Rhonda Gaede, Jeffrey Kulick (University of Alabama in Huntsville)

Ghidra: Is Newer Always Better?

Jonathan Crussell (Sandia National Laboratories)

How Different Tokenization Algorithms Impact LLMs and Transformer Models for Binary Code Analysis

Ahmed Mostafa, Raisul Arefin Nahid, Samuel Mulder (Auburn University)

Inspecting Compiler Optimizations on Mixed Boolean Arithmetic Obfuscation

Rachael Little, Dongpeng Xu (University of New Hampshire)

Mnemocrypt

André Pacteau, Antonino Vitale, Davide Balzarotti, Simone Aonzo (EURECOM)

Target-Centric Firmware Rehosting with Penguin

Andrew Fasano, Zachary Estrada, Luke Craig, Ben Levy, Jordan McLeod, Jacques Becker, Elysia Witham, Cole DiLorenzo, Caden Kline, Ali Bobi (MIT Lincoln Laboratory), Dinko Dermendzhiev (Georgia Institute of Technology), Tim Leek (MIT Lincoln Laboratory), William Robertson (Northeastern University)

Towards Better CFG Layouts

Jack Royer (CentraleSupélec), Frédéric TRONEL (CentraleSupélec, Inria, CNRS, University of Rennes), Yaëlle Vinçont (Univ Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA)

Trim My View: An LLM-Based Code Query System for Constraint-Based Module Retrieval in Robotic Firmware

Sima Arasteh (University of Southern California), Pegah Jandaghi, Nicolaas Weideman (University of Southern California/Information Sciences Institute), Dennis Perepech, Mukund Raghothaman (University of Southern California), Christophe Hauser (Dartmouth College), Luis Garcia (University of Utah Kahlert School of Computing)