Binary semantic Similarity Comparison based on software gene

The similarity of binary code is widely used in code copyright protection, vulnerability mining, malicious code analysis and etc. In this paper, we proposed a method for measuring/evaluating the similarity of two binary files based on software genes. Some of Natural language processing methods were introduced into program semantics analysis, including word2vec and doc2vec models to generate assembly instruction embeddings and gene semantic embeddings. Then the longest common subsequence method was applied to evaluate the software similarity. Experiments show that our method can effectively evaluate the similarity of binary files.