DYNAMIC CALL TRACKING METHOD BASED ON CPU INTERRUPT INSTRUCTIONS TO IMPROVE DISASSEMBLY QUALITY OF INDIRECT CALLS

Patent №

US 9,767,004

Granted

2017-09-19

Filed 2014

Owner

SYMANTEC CORPORATION

Lab

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14305580

Embodiments presented herein describe techniques to track and correct indirect function calls in disassembled object code. Assembly language source code is generated from a binary executable object. The assembly language source code may include indirect function calls. Memory addresses associated with the function calls are identified. A central processing unit (CPU) interrupt instruction is inserted in the disassembled source code at each indirect function call. The disassembled source code is executed. When the interrupt at each indirect function call is triggered, the function name of a function referenced by a register may be determined.

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AI classification

AI hardware1.00
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Ownership

SYMANTEC CORPORATION

assignment · 331110143

Assignors

YANG, HONG YI, GUO, RUI

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