ICSE 2026
Sun 12 - Sat 18 April 2026 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Wed 15 Apr 2026 14:45 - 15:00 at Oceania IX - Testing and Analysis 4 Chair(s): Anil Koyuncu

With WebAssembly widely supported in browsers, containers, IoT devices, and serverless platforms and increasingly adopted as a universal low‑level bytecode standard, auditing its hidden vulnerabilities and malicious intentions has become critical. Decompiling existing WebAssembly modules can help security researchers and end users understand binary behavior, but current tools suffer from verbose result, poor readability, and limited type recovery.

We present NotDec, an advanced WebAssembly decompilation framework. NotDec extends the WebAssembly type checking algorithm to lift bytecode into an SSA‑based IR, applies the inter-procedural type recovery algorithm Retypd with pointer and numeric value differentiation methods to recover complex data structures, and leverages Memory SSA alongside semantics‑preserving structured control‑flow analysis to emit readable, semantically consistent C code.

NotDec achieves 100% recompilation success rate on all 5,241 Juliet samples and all Howard dataset programs, significantly outperforming baselines including Ghidra (45.95% success rate). On type recovery accuracy, NotDec recovers 85.33% of struct member accesses in real-world programs, vastly exceeding Ghidra’s 9.24%. While the full inter-procedural version faces scalability challenges on large binaries, the intra-procedural variant NotDec_F demonstrates superior efficiency, consuming less than half of Ghidra’s memory and up to 97% less execution time on unoptimized binaries.

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Wed 15 Apr

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14:00 - 15:30
Testing and Analysis 4Research Track / SE In Practice (SEIP) at Oceania IX
Chair(s): Anil Koyuncu Bilkent University
14:00
15m
Talk
SymRadar: PoC-Centered Bounded Verification for Vulnerability Repair
Research Track
14:15
15m
Talk
Fine-Grained Analyses for Evolution-Aware Runtime Verification
Research Track
Pengyue Jiang Cornell University, Kevin Guan Cornell University, M. Mahdi Khosravi Middle East Technical University, Moustafa Ismail Middle East Technical University, Marcelo d'Amorim North Carolina State University, Owolabi Legunsen Cornell University
14:30
15m
Talk
An Empirical Study on Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Tools for PythonDistinguished Paper Award
Research Track
Liu Zhuohang Nankai University, Zhi Wang Nankai University, Haotong Liu Nankai University, Wanpeng Li University of Liverpool
14:45
15m
Talk
NotDec: WebAssembly Decompilation With Inter-Procedural Type RecoveryVirtual Attendance
Research Track
Jikai Wang Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Ningyu He Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Tianming Liu Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Junhai Wang Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Haoyu Wang Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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15:00
15m
Talk
PyXray: Practical Cross-Language Call Graph Construction through Object Layout Analysis
Research Track
Georgios Alexopoulos University of Athens, Thodoris Sotiropoulos ETH Zurich, Georgios Gousios Endor Labs, Zhendong Su ETH Zurich, Dimitris Mitropoulos University of Athens
Pre-print
15:15
15m
Talk
HapCheck: DSL-Based Static Bug Detection Framework for OpenHarmony
SE In Practice (SEIP)
Xitong Zhong Beihang University, Chang Liu Beihang University, Runlin Liu Beihang University, Zifu Xu Beihang University, Zhengyao Liu Beihang University, Juqi Zhou Beihang University, Gang Fan Huawei Hong Kong Research Centre, Mingyi Zhou Beihang University, Xiang Gao Beihang University, Li Li Beihang University