Decompiling the Syngergy Study

This is the repository for the NDSS 2026 work "Decompiling the Synergy: An Empirical Study of Human–LLM Teaming in Software Reverse Engineering". All code found in this repo can be used to reconstruct the study infrastructure or play-test the challenges used in the study.

If you are only looking for the LLM tool (and decompiler instrumentation), you can find a working version at mahaloz/DAILA.

Artifacts

• infrastructure: code for running our custom pwncollege Dojo, includes modified DAILA plugin.
• challenges: the two CTF challenges (and their code) found in our study

Cite

@inproceedings{basque2026decompiling,
  title={Decompiling the Synergy: An Empirical Study of Human-LLM Teaming in Software Reverse Engineering.},
  author={Basque, Zion Leonahenahe and Doria, Samuele and Soneji, Ananta and Gibbs, Wil and Doup{\'e}, Adam and Shoshitaishvili, Yan and Losiouk, Eleonora and Wang, Ruoyu and Aonzo, Simone and others},
  booktitle={NDSS},
  year={2026}
}