Since I also wanted slightly different colors (red!40!black for the title, and blue!60!black for the authors), all this ended up in the bookmark section of the pdf file:
red!40!black Tirex: A Textual Target-level...Exchangeto 1em. to 0pt
And this for all included files.
I have to yet worked out a clean way to get rid of this garbage, but I found that bookmarks are saved by the hyperref package in the .out file, which contains lines like the following:
\BOOKMARK [0][]{chapter*.3}{red!40!black \040Tirex: A Textual Target-Level Intermediate Representation for Compiler Exchangeto 1em. to 0pt to 1em. blue!50!black \040Artur Pietrek, Florent Bouchez and Benoit Dupont De Dinechin}{}
So the obvious trick is to clean this .out file save it and backup it.
\BOOKMARK [0][]{chapter*.3}{Tirex: A Textual Target-Level Intermediate Representation for Compiler Exchange -- Artur Pietrek, Florent Bouchez and Benoit Dupont De Dinechin}{}
Then, run again pdflatex once. This is important since the first run will erase the .out file and replace it with a file with garble again.
This produces the expected result, with a clean index bookmark in my pdf. However, I would prefer a cleaner way to perform this. This is probably possible in the hyperref package, but the difficulty will likely come from the interaction with pdfpages.