Nicolò Altamura on Mythryl: “Control Flow Graph is a critical element for any binary analysis…”

Control Flow Graph is a critical element for any binary analysis framework, but its role has been underestimated sometimes (I'm looking at you, Ghidra!). nicolo.dev/en/blog/role...

nicolo.devThe Role of the Control Flow Graph in Static AnalysisThe flow control graph is an important building block in static program analysis for applying a variety of analyses that consider the flow of a program. The “flow”, described informally, represents the evolution of the program during execution time, that is, at which the CPU jumps in order to continue program execution. The graph (also called CFG for brevity) allows the first high-level elements of software to be derived in a general way from a low- or medium-level representation (we cite as an example assembly code or intermediate code). High-level elements include high-level loops (while or for loops) and execution branches (switch, if, else) that can be critical in identifying how execution evolves over time.

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