McSema

by Aditi Gupta, Carnegie Mellon University As a summer intern at Trail of Bits, I’ve been working on building Fennec, a tool to automatically replace function calls in compiled binaries that’s built ...

C++ programs using exceptions are problematic for binary lifters. The non-local control-flow “throw” and “catch” operations that appear in C++ source code do not map neatly to straightforward binary representations. One could ...

Today, we’re going to talk about a hard problem that we are working on as part of DARPA’s Cyber Fault-Tolerant Attack Recovery (CFAR) program: automatically protecting software from 0-day exploits, memory corruption, ...

Tim Alberdingk Thijm As part of my Springternship at Trail of Bits, I created a series of data-flow-based optimizations that eliminate most “dead” stores that emulate writes to machine code registers in ...