C. Pavan Kumar

13 papers Misc 1Journal 8Unranked 4
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
Inf. Sci.
Abdullah Abdul Sattar Shaikh, M. S. Bhargavi, C. Pavan Kumar
2025 J jnl
IET Image Process.
Shivakumara Palaiahnakote, C. Pavan Kumar, Pranjal Aggarwal, Shubham Sharma, Pasupuleti Chandana, Mahadevappa Basavanna, Umapada Pal
2025 Misc conf
ICISS
Sathwik Narkedimilli, C. Pavan Kumar, Raghavendra Ramachandra
2024 conf
ICPR (Workshops and Challenges, 6)
Prateek Agrawal, Shivakumara Palaiahnakote, Yuvraj Singh, C. Pavan Kumar, Umapada Pal, Siddhant Dixit, Udit Jain, Abhishek Dubey
2024 J jnl
Expert Syst. Appl.
Palaiahnakote Shivakumara, C. Pavan Kumar, Jagrut Nemade, Kshitiz Michael, Akash Kumar, Basavaraj S. Anami, Umapada Pal
2023 J jnl
Comput. Methods Programs Biomed.
Abdullah Abdul Sattar Shaikh, M. S. Bhargavi, C. Pavan Kumar
2022 conf
ICON
Shobhan Kumar, Arun Chauhan, C. Pavan Kumar
2022 conf
BDA
Shobhan Kumar, Arun Chauhan, C. Pavan Kumar
2020 J jnl
Discret. Math. Algorithms Appl.
R. Selvakumar, C. Pavan Kumar
2019 J jnl
Int. J. Commun. Networks Distributed Syst.
C. Pavan Kumar, R. Selvakumar
2018 J jnl
Int. J. Commun. Syst.
C. Pavan Kumar, R. Selvakumar
2018 conf
WASA
C. Pavan Kumar, R. Selvakumar
2018 J jnl
Int. J. Inf. Comput. Secur.
C. Pavan Kumar, R. Selvakumar, Raghunadh K. Bhattar
redb/extractors/decompiler/apk/library_filter.py
← Index redb/extractors/decompiler/apk/library_filter.py python
"""Package-based library filtering for APK DEX code analysis.

Determines whether a method belongs to a known library/framework package
and should be filtered out of content tables. This is the Android equivalent
of is_lib_or_thunk() in the Binary Ninja pipeline.
"""

import os
from typing import Dict, List


DEFAULT_LIBRARY_PREFIXES = [
    "android.",
    "androidx.",
    "com.google.android.",
    "com.google.firebase.",
    "com.google.gson.",
    "com.google.protobuf.",
    "kotlin.",
    "kotlinx.",
    "org.apache.",
    "com.squareup.",
    "io.reactivex.",
    "org.reactivestreams.",
    "com.facebook.",
    "com.crashlytics.",
    "io.fabric.",
    "org.junit.",
    "org.mockito.",
]


class LibraryFilter:
    """Filters library/framework classes from APK analysis."""

    def __init__(self, prefixes: List[str] = None):
        env_prefixes = os.getenv("APK_LIBRARY_PREFIXES")
        if env_prefixes:
            self._prefixes = [p.strip() for p in env_prefixes.split(",") if p.strip()]
        elif prefixes is not None:
            self._prefixes = prefixes
        else:
            self._prefixes = DEFAULT_LIBRARY_PREFIXES

        # Convert Dalvik-style prefixes to both formats for matching
        self._dot_prefixes = tuple(self._prefixes)

        self._stats = {"library": 0, "user": 0}

    def is_library(self, class_name: str) -> bool:
        """Check if a class belongs to a known library/framework package.

        Accepts both Java dot notation (com.example.Foo) and Dalvik
        descriptor notation (Lcom/example/Foo;).
        """
        # Normalize Dalvik descriptor to dot notation
        normalized = self._normalize_class_name(class_name)

        is_lib = normalized.startswith(self._dot_prefixes)
        if is_lib:
            self._stats["library"] += 1
        else:
            self._stats["user"] += 1
        return is_lib

    def get_filter_stats(self) -> Dict[str, int]:
        """Return counts of filtered vs. retained classes."""
        return dict(self._stats)

    @staticmethod
    def _normalize_class_name(class_name: str) -> str:
        """Convert Dalvik descriptor to dot notation.

        Lcom/example/Foo; -> com.example.Foo
        com.example.Foo -> com.example.Foo
        """
        if class_name.startswith("L") and class_name.endswith(";"):
            return class_name[1:-1].replace("/", ".")
        return class_name.replace("/", ".")