Analyzing Chain of Thought (CoT) Approaches in Control Flow Code Deobfuscation Tasks

ArXi:2604.15390v1 Announce Type: cross Code deobfuscation is the task of recovering a readable version of a program while preserving its original behavior. In practice, this often requires days or even months of manual work with complex and expensive analysis tools. In this paper, we explore an alternative approach based on Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting, where a large language model is guided through explicit, step-by-step reasoning tailored for code analysis.