@xuanyuanzhifeng: Even WinDbg, x64dbg, and GDB lack dynamic debugging capabilities, yet a bunch of people are still hyping up REA over th…

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一位安全研究者在推文中讨论 AI 逆向工程的现状，指出 AI 虽能轻松处理未加壳未混淆的软件，但对 VMP、LLVM 等高强度虚拟化壳仍难以突破，且预测商业软件的核心逻辑将转向重度保护或云端化。

Even WinDbg, x64dbg, and GDB lack dynamic debugging capabilities, yet a bunch of people are still hyping up REA over there. With AI's boost, reversing and analyzing unpackaged, unencrypted, un-obfuscated stuff is indeed a piece of cake. For lightly packed, encrypted, or obfuscated ones, it just takes a bit of time to crack. But for high-intensity virtualization shells like VMP and LLVM, AI still struggles to break through right now. As for some variant strong shells with proprietary virtualization protocols, without training data, AI won't be able to tackle them for quite a long time. For commercial software, it's basically impossible—they're not gonna sit there naked waiting for you to reverse. In the future shape of commercial software, core functional logic will either be heavily protected on the client side or pushed back to the cloud where users can't touch it. Actually, this trend was already underway before AI showed up; AI's just accelerating it.
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Even WinDbg, x64dbg, and GDB lack dynamic debugging capabilities, yet a bunch of people are still hyping up REA over there.
With AI’s boost, reversing and analyzing unpackaged, unencrypted, un-obfuscated stuff is indeed a piece of cake.
For lightly packed, encrypted, or obfuscated ones, it just takes a bit of time to crack.
But for high-intensity virtualization shells like VMP and LLVM, AI still struggles to break through right now.
As for some variant strong shells with proprietary virtualization protocols, without training data, AI won’t be able to tackle them for quite a long time.
For commercial software, it’s basically impossible—they’re not gonna sit there naked waiting for you to reverse.
In the future shape of commercial software, core functional logic will either be heavily protected on the client side or pushed back to the cloud where users can’t touch it.
Actually, this trend was already underway before AI showed up; AI’s just accelerating it.

Orange AI (@oran_ge): AI 逆向这个事情，竟然还是没有引起重视，还在暗中发酵 这个事情要么不爆，要么就爆个超级大的。。。 直接改写行业规则，欸

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