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The Workshop on Software Understanding and Reverse Engineering (SURE). Co-located at ACM CCS 2025 in Taiwan. https://sure-workshop.org/
CCS has come to a close, and so has the first-ever SURE Workshop. We want to thank the authors, the PC, @moyix, our panel, and CCS for making SURE a success. We felt the support for this research area (the room was packed out for more than half the day).

See you all next year!
October 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
On our last presented work at SURE, we have Noriki Sakamoto presenting "Toward Inferring Structural Semantics from Binary Code Using Graph Neural Networks"
October 13, 2025 at 8:11 AM
We're so back, and on our last session: Applications & Future Work.
Changyu "Thomason" Zhao is presenting "LibIHT: A Hardware-Based Approach to Efficient and Evasion-Resistant Dynamic Binary Analysis".

He is presenting virtually.
October 13, 2025 at 7:52 AM
We're on our last talk of the session, remaining with the obfuscation topic. Dongpeng Xu is presenting "DEBRA: A Real-World Benchmark For Evaluating Deobfuscation Methods" in the place of Zheyun Feng.
October 13, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Next up is "On the Learnability, Robustness, and Adaptability of Deep Learning Models for Obfuscation-applied Code," presented by Jiyong Uhm of Sungkyunkwan University.

October 13, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Speaking of evaluating things, how do you evaluate if your decompilation (or other tool) is actually helping you more in understanding software?

Florian Magin is back to present:
"Towards Scalable Evaluation of Software Understanding: A Methodology Proposal"
October 13, 2025 at 6:10 AM
New session, who this? In this session, we are talking about benchmarking! We start with "Benchmarking Binary Type Inference Techniques in Decompilers," presented by Vedant Soni.
October 13, 2025 at 5:51 AM
So you are thinking about approaching decompilation in the non-C sense, but you are not sure if it is impactful?

Well, Florian Magin, is presenting "Measuring While Playing Fair: An Empirical Analysis of Language and Framework Usage in the iOS App Store" to answer that!
October 13, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Speaking of decompilation, that is not just C; we are now on "ideco: A Framework for Improving Non-C Decompilation," presented by Sam Lerner, an independent researcher.

October 13, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Speaking of decompilation, that is not just C; we are now on "ideco: A Framework for Improving Non-C Decompilation," presented by Sam Lerner, an independent researcher.

October 13, 2025 at 3:43 AM
We're now "Systematic Testing of C++ Abstraction Recovery Systems by Iterative Compiler Model Refinement," presented by Edward J. Schwartz of CMU! More in the thread.
October 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
We just had our first talk of the day, our spectacular keynote from @moyix. He explored reverse engineering and discussed how we still have a long way to go in making questions about programs accessible to non-technical people.

We'll be live-tweeting talks as they happen!
October 13, 2025 at 3:04 AM
In our inaugural year, we are excited to have the epic @moyix give the opening keynote at SURE 2025:
"Reverse Engineering in the 2020s: Where are we, and where should we go?"

This will be an inspiring start to the workshop.
SURE 2025 | The Workshop on Software Understanding and Reverse Engineering
The Workshop on Software Understanding and Reverse Engineering
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September 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
SURE is proud to announce that we have **9** epic works that have been accepted for presentation at SURE on October 13. Topics span decompilation, (de)obfuscation, debugging, fundamental benchmarks, and more!

sure-workshop.org/pa... (paper links out soon)
Accepted Papers | SURE 2025
Papers and posters accepted for SURE 2025
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September 17, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Less than 24 hours to go! Get those submissions in 💻🔥⏩

sure25.hotcrp.com/
July 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
We're rapidly approaching the deadline on July 7th at 11:59 p.m. AoE for our CFP. Software must be understood, and we need your research to do it!

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July 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
As is workshop tradition, we will be extending the deadline for our CFP until July 7th (hard deadline). We're excited to see the work you all have cooking 🧑‍🍳🔥
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June 21, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Only **10** days left to submit to SURE ⏰. Go go go!
June 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
🔎🛠️ Calling all reverse engineers & code explorers! Bring the research that cracks open the secrets of programs to #SURE25. CFP closes in 3 weeks—submit now and help shape the future of Software Understanding & Reverse Engineering.

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SURE 2025 | The Workshop on Software Understanding and Reverse Engineering
The Workshop on Software Understanding and Reverse Engineering
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June 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Ready to make your impact on the software understanding and reverse engineering community? Submit your work to SURE!

Our submission site is now open: sure25.hotcrp.com/. The submission deadline is June 28th AoE. We look forward to seeing your novel work 🔥.
May 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
We are excited to announce that the 1st Workshop on Software Understanding and Reverse Engineering (SURE) will be co-located at ACM CCS 2025 in Taiwan! We invite the community to submit their awesome research sure-workshop.org/.

So, what is SURE? More in the 🧵
SURE 2025 | The Workshop on Software Understanding and Reverse Engineering
The Workshop on Software Understanding and Reverse Engineering
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April 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM