--- title: Sol Searching | Can Frontier Models Tackle Autonomous... description: SentinelLABS built a real-world, eight-stage reverse-engineering benchmark based on their investigation of fast16, a 2005 Windows sabotage implant targeting... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/sol-searching-can-frontier-models-tackle-autonomous-long-horizon-malware-analysis--odubbrnjg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Sol Searching | Can Frontier Models Tackle Autonomous Long-Horizon Malware Analysis? | daily.dev og:description: SentinelLABS built a real-world, eight-stage reverse-engineering benchmark based on their investigation of fast16, a 2005 Windows sabotage implant targeting... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/sol-searching-can-frontier-models-tackle-autonomous-long-horizon-malware-analysis--odubbrnjg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/oDUBBrnJG.png og:image:alt: Sol Searching | Can Frontier Models Tackle Autonomous Long-Horizon Malware Analysis? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Sol Searching | Can Frontier Models Tackle Autonomous Long-Horizon Malware Analysis? **[SentinelLABS](https://daily.dev/sources/sentinelone-labs)** · 15 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary SentinelLABS built a real-world, eight-stage reverse-engineering benchmark based on their investigation of fast16, a 2005 Windows sabotage implant targeting nuclear-weapons modeling software. The benchmark tests whether frontier AI models can sustain a trustworthy malware investigation as new evidence repeatedly invalidates earlier conclusions — a capability they call 'project-scale recovery.' Most tested models (GPT-5.5, GLM-5.2, Opus 4.x) showed strong local analytical ability but failed to carry that quality through the full investigation. GPT-5.6 Sol was the only publicly available model to complete all eight stages, distinguishing itself by withdrawing contradicted conclusions, mapping downstream impact, repairing root causes, and propagating corrections throughout the entire project. Despite this milestone, senior reverse engineers remain essential: Sol still made semantic errors, accepted weak quality controls, and required human oversight at critical junctures. The practical takeaway is 'supervised investigative agency' — one expert overseeing these systems can now dramatically multiply their output without replacing human judgment. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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