---
id: 1869
title: "Revisiting 2000 cuts using Binary Ninja’s new decompiler"
source_domain: blog.trailofbits.com
source_url: "https://blog.trailofbits.com/2020/04/17/revisiting-2000-cuts-using-binary-ninjas-new-decompiler/"
published_at: "2020-04-17T19:53:10Z"
tags: ["reverse-engineering", "exploitation", "binary-analysis", "trail-of-bits", "binary-ninja", "decompiler", "hlil", "high-level-il"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/1869"
lang: en
---

# Revisiting 2000 cuts using Binary Ninja’s new decompiler

## Summary

Four years after the original 2000 cuts post, the author revisits the challenge with Binary Ninja's new decompiler, showing how High Level IL shrinks 43 assembly instructions down to six.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.trailofbits.com
- **Published:** 2020-04-17T19:53:10Z
- **Original:** https://blog.trailofbits.com/2020/04/17/revisiting-2000-cuts-using-binary-ninjas-new-decompiler/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/1869