SEMPRE: Semantic-Aware Protocol Reverse Engineering via Consistency-Driven Joint Optimization

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Yihua Xu, Weijie Huang, Xiaofeng Wang, Hang Zhang, Binghui Wang, Yue Duan)

Summary by Cyber Security News26 Oct 2026, 05:00 CET

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arXiv:2610.31844v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Protocol reverse engineering (PRE) is essential for understanding undocumented or proprietary communication formats, enabling security-critical tasks such as vulnerability discovery, malware C2 analysis, and IDS signature generation. However, existing PRE techniques rely on brittle hand-written rules, under-model contextual dependencies among neighboring fields, and often fail on messages with nested sub-protocols.

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