🗣️ Overview#
This research topic proposes a cross-architecture software birthmarks that targets the real-world executables such as Linux ELF, Windows PE, and macOS Mach-O. The birthmarks are extracted from the intermediate representation of the executables throughGhidra’s p-code.
📚 Publications#
- Haruaki Tamada, ‘‘Cross-Platform Software Theft Detection via Intermediate-Representation Birthmarks: How Statically Linked Libraries Distort Similarity’’, International Journal of Software Innovation, 2026 (submitted).
- Nikolay Fedorov, Akito Monden, Hiroki Inayoshi, Haruaki Tamada, Masateru Tsunoda, ‘‘Project-wise Comparison of Software Birthmarks Using Weighted Partial Similarity’’, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2026 (submitted).
- Nikolay Fedorov, Akito Monden, Hiroki Inayoshi, Haruaki Tamada, Masateru Tsunoda, ‘‘Detection of LLM-assisted Code Plagiarism Using k-gram Software Birthmarks’’, Proc. 8th World Symposium on Software Engineering (WSSE 2026), October 2026 (Nara, Japan, Best Presentation Award).
- Haruaki Tamada, “Cross-Platform Software Birthmarking for Real-World Binaries via Intermediate Representation,” 34th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD2026), August 2026 (Okayama, Japan, Best Special Session Paper Award).
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🤝 Collaborators#
- Y. Kanzaki@Kumamoto National College of Technology