Microsoft’s Project Ire Autonomously Reverse Engineers Software to Find Malware

Microsoft has unveiled Project Ire, a prototype autonomous AI agent that can analyze any software file to determine if it’s malicious.

Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled Project Ire, a prototype autonomous AI agent that can analyze software files in order to determine whether they hide malware.

According to Microsoft, Project Ire can autonomously reverse engineer and classify software without any prior context, automating and scaling what can be a complex process.

Project Ire was developed by teams at Microsoft Research, Microsoft Defender Research, and Microsoft Discovery & Quantum.

It uses decompilers and other tools to gather data that enables it to determine whether a file is benign or malicious, while also providing a traceable chain of evidence.

“The system’s architecture allows for reasoning at multiple levels, from low-level binary analysis to control flow reconstruction and high-level interpretation of code behavior,” Microsoft explained.

It added, “Its tool-use API enables the ...