McSema - Static Translation of x86 instructions to LLVM IR

title	Static Translation of X86 Instruction Semantics to LLVM with McSema
date	2014-06-28
authors	Andrew Ruef Artem Dinaburg
conference	REcon 2014
resources	label path Slides McSema.pdf label url Recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW9bE5tUVYg label url Source Code https://github.com/trailofbits/mcsema label url Blog Post https://blog.trailofbits.com/2014/06/23/a-preview-of-mcsema/

We have developed McSema, a new framework for analyzing and transforming machine-code programs. McSema translates x86 instructions into LLVM bitcode, with a translation strategy that allows for analysis by standard compiler algorithms. The talk demonstrates McSema by adding control flow integrity to existing Windows DLLs. McSema is open source, permissively licensed, and available for use and modification.