Reunderstanding the Power of AI Through Reverse Engineering
The article details the author's experience using AI to reverse engineer various Android applications, demonstrating AI's growing capability in handling complex tasks like decrypting game resources and bypassing protections. Through cases involving Cocos2d and Unity games, AI successfully applied static and dynamic analysis techniques, including decompilation, hooking, and simulation. These experiences reshaped the author's view of AI, revealing its potential to autonomously solve reverse engineering challenges previously thought to be beyond its reach.
- ▪AI was used to reverse engineer stripped binaries and protected Android apps, including games built with Cocos2d and Unity frameworks.
- ▪In one case, AI identified Blowfish encryption and reconstructed a string-concatenated key by analyzing disassembled code.
- ▪AI transitioned from static to dynamic analysis when needed, using tools like Frida and Unicorn Engine to hook functions and extract decryption keys.
- ▪For a Unity-based game, AI analyzed asset bundles and Lua scripts to recover obfuscated game logic.
- ▪The author concluded that AI can independently perform sophisticated reverse engineering tasks, surpassing initial expectations.
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Reunderstanding the Power of AI Through Reverse Engineering 18 April 2026 Security (Translated by ChatGPT) Previously, I wrote a post titled Using AI to Do Simple Reverse Engineering, describing how I combined an AI agent with Ghidra MCP to reverse engineer a stripped Golang binary. Although there were some minor errors in the results, the overall direction was correct. Nearly two months have passed, and during this time, I used AI to reverse engineer more things, including many that I thought AI couldn’t handle. However, AI slapped me in the face, revealing that I was the ignorant one. This article documents what AI can achieve and concludes with how this experience has changed my perspective on AI.
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