Awesome Binary Ninja Research

This repository presents a curated collection of academic papers, theses, and workshop publications that utilize, integrate, or assess Binary Ninja, a leading platform for reverse engineering and binary analysis. The compilation serves as a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners seeking insights into various applications and evaluations of Binary Ninja in the field.

The collection includes a range of papers, from tools specifically developed as plugins or extensions for Binary Ninja, to in-depth comparative analyses with other disassemblers and decompilers such as IDA Pro, Ghidra, and angr. Each entry is organized by year, showcasing the latest advancements and notable contributions to the area of binary analysis.

Featured Papers

Paper	Year
Decompiling for Constant-Time Analysis	2026
Bangr: Binary Ninja + angr	2026
Assessing the Effectiveness of the Tigress Obfuscator Against MOPSA and BinaryNinja	2025
Recover Function Signature from Combined Constraints	2025
SALT4Decompile: Inferring Source-level Abstract Logic Tree for LLM-Based Binary Decompilation	2025
Decompiler Semantic Defects: An Empirical Study	2025
A New Framework of Software Obfuscation Evaluation Criteria	2025
SoK: Potentials and Challenges of Large Language Models for Reverse Engineering	2025
Binary Diff Summarization using Large Language Models	2025
Fast, Fine-Grained Equivalence Checking for Neural Decompilers	2025
DecompileBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Decompilers in Real-World Scenarios	2025
A tool for IoT Firmware Certification	2024
Ahoy SAILR! There is No Need to DREAM of C: A Compiler-Aware Structuring Algorithm for Binary Decompilation	2024
Blaze: A Framework for Interprocedural Binary Analysis	2023
A Survey of Firmware Analysis Techniques and Tools	2022
Visualizing Machine Learning Explanations to Support Software Reverse Engineers	2022
DECOMPERSON: How Humans Decompile and What We Can Learn From It	2022
dewolf: Improving Decompilation by Leveraging User Surveys	2022
SENinja: A symbolic execution plugin for Binary Ninja	2022
SoK: All You Ever Wanted to Know About x86/x64 Binary Disassembly and Beyond	2020
GTIRB: GrammaTech Intermediate Representation for Binaries	2019
PaperMachete	2016

This resource encourages contributions from the community. If there are academic papers that utilize Binary Ninja and are not included, please consider submitting a pull request or opening an issue. Each submission should meet the criteria of being a legitimate academic publication and must demonstrate the use, integration, or evaluation of Binary Ninja.