A program understanding approach for stripped binary code

The stripped binary form software is a typical object that software analysis and program understanding activity often deal with. Traditional analysis and comprehension models based on source code or debug symbol information are often useless when handling this kind of software for lack of information. A comprehension approach for stripped binary code was proposed. The analysis object was transformed to runtime process and the process information was imported. Then the program's action feature was imported using the external behavior and interface as the supplementary information, the feature was mapped to binary code. Finally, program slicing and debugging techniques were used to analyze program. The approach has access to more information for software analysis and program understanding and reduces the complexity, thus solves the information shortage and model building problem when analyzing stripped binary code.