Defeating AI-Assisted Reverse Engineering (or at Least Trying To)
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Summary
Is LLM-assisted reverse engineering making obfuscation pointless? We spent a couple of weeks trying to find out, by handing sandboxed agents a series of progressively hardened AArch64 binaries and one prompt: recover the hidden strings inside. This post walks through what the agent actually did, three ways our experiment fell apart, and what those failures suggest about designing protections that hold against automated analysis.
Why it matters
This coverage gives security teams current context for monitoring, validation, and remediation.
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