XRef 0.4.0 improves false-positive detection

The author examines how AI agents and decompilers can be misled during binary reverse engineering, using a synthetic example with two thousand decoy functions. The walkthrough demonstrates how tool-generated pseudo-C and offset matches can yield convincing false positives without rigorous evidence chains, pointer provenance checks, and coverage diagnostics. The article highlights improvements in the XRef tool to distinguish precise field updates from initialization and pointer copies. Open article →