I wonder what the mystery instruction set in the slides actually is? (Assuming it is a real instruction set and not just something made up to demo the idea.)
It's a reverse-engineering conference presentation by 2 Russian authors who highlight that they aren't providing any details about the context despite the obvious extreme relevance, and where their solution does not handle any obfuscation at all. So they are probably not decompiling APT malware running in nested VMs, but I'm going to guess reverse-engineering old highly-secret Russian military hardware where the only docs are high-level ones about the usage and repair, not what the chips are doing, and where the contractor wants to bugfix or develop new versions but needs to understand all the inner logic and what empirical ad hoc corrections it might be incorporating through the wisdom of long-dead Russian mega-brain engineers.
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I wonder what the mystery instruction set in the slides actually is? (Assuming it is a real instruction set and not just something made up to demo the idea.)
It's a reverse-engineering conference presentation by 2 Russian authors who highlight that they aren't providing any details about the context despite the obvious extreme relevance, and where their solution does not handle any obfuscation at all. So they are probably not decompiling APT malware running in nested VMs, but I'm going to guess reverse-engineering old highly-secret Russian military hardware where the only docs are high-level ones about the usage and repair, not what the chips are doing, and where the contractor wants to bugfix or develop new versions but needs to understand all the inner logic and what empirical ad hoc corrections it might be incorporating through the wisdom of long-dead Russian mega-brain engineers.