James A. Anderson

29 papers B 1C 1Journal 20Unranked 3
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2023 J jnl
Patterns
Melissa D. McCradden, Shalmali Joshi, James A. Anderson, Alex John London
2022 J jnl
Nat. Mach. Intell.
Viknesh Sounderajah, Melissa D. McCradden, Xiaoxuan Liu, Sherri Rose, Hutan Ashrafian, Gary S. Collins, James A. Anderson, Patrick M. Bossuyt, David Moher, Ara Darzi
2020 J jnl
Comput. Electron. Agric.
Ali Moghimi, Ce Yang, James A. Anderson
2020 J jnl
J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc.
Melissa D. McCradden, Shalmali Joshi, James A. Anderson, Mjaye Mazwi, Anna Goldenberg, Randi Zlotnik Shaul
2020 C conf
AIES
Melissa D. McCradden, Mjaye Mazwi, Shalmali Joshi, James A. Anderson
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Ali Moghimi, Ce Yang, James A. Anderson
2012 J jnl
Int. J. Cogn. Informatics Nat. Intell.
Yingxu Wang, James A. Anderson, George Baciu, Gerhard Budin, D. Frank Hsu, Mitsuru Ishizuka, Witold Kinsner, Fumio Mizoguchi, Toyoaki Nishida, Kenji Sugawara, Shusaku Tsumoto, Du Zhang
2012 J jnl
Int. J. Cogn. Informatics Nat. Intell.
James A. Anderson, Paul Allopenna, Gerald S. Guralnik, Daniel Ferrente, John A. Santini
2012 conf
ICCI*CC
James A. Anderson
2009 J jnl
Fundam. Informaticae
Yingxu Wang, Witold Kinsner, James A. Anderson, Du Zhang, Yiyu Yao, Phillip C.-Y. Sheu, Jeffrey J. P. Tsai, Witold Pedrycz, Jean-Claude Latombe, Lotfi A. Zadeh, Dilip Patel, Christine W. Chan
2007 ch.
Challenges for Computational Intelligence
James A. Anderson, Paul Allopenna, Gerald S. Guralnik, David Sheinberg, John A. Santini, Socrates Dimitriadis, Benjamin B. Machta, Brian T. Merritt
2006 book
Automata theory with modern applications.
James A. Anderson
2006 B conf
IJCNN
James A. Anderson, Paul Allopenna
2003 J jnl
Theor. Comput. Sci.
Wit Forys, Tomasz Krawczyk, James A. Anderson
2002 conf
IEEE ICCI
James A. Anderson
2001 J jnl
Comput. Sci. Eng.
Albert Y. Zomaya, James A. Anderson, David B. Fogel, Gerard J. Milburn, Grzegorz Rozenberg
2000 J jnl
Ubiquity
James A. Anderson, Edward Rosenfeld
2000 J jnl
Theor. Comput. Sci.
James A. Anderson
1998 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Neural Networks
James A. Anderson, Edward Rosenfield
1997 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Neural Networks
Ling Guan, James A. Anderson, Jeffrey P. Sutton
1994 book
Model-based computer vision - a synthesised approach.
James A. Anderson
1992 J jnl
IEEE Commun. Mag.
James A. Anderson
1990 J jnl
Proc. IEEE
James A. Anderson, Michael T. Gately, P. Andrew Penz, Dean R. Collins
1989 book
James A. Anderson
1988 J jnl
Neural Networks
Alice J. O'Toole, Richard B. Millward, James A. Anderson
1988 J jnl
Neural Networks
James A. Anderson, Arthur B. Markman, Susan R. Viscuso, Edward J. Wisniewski
1988 J jnl
SIGARCH Comput. Archit. News
James A. Anderson, Edward J. Wisniewski, Susan R. Viscuso
1988 conf
ML
Edward J. Wisniewski, James A. Anderson
1983 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern.
James A. Anderson
redb/extractors/decompiler/_archive/GhidraDecompilerScript-v2.java
← Index redb/extractors/decompiler/_archive/GhidraDecompilerScript-v2.java java
import ghidra.app.script.GhidraScript;
import ghidra.program.model.listing.*;
import ghidra.app.decompiler.*;
import ghidra.program.model.block.*;
import ghidra.program.model.symbol.*;
import ghidra.program.model.pcode.*;
import ghidra.program.model.address.*;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import org.json.JSONArray;
import java.security.MessageDigest;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;

public class GhidraDecompilerScript extends GhidraScript {
    private DecompInterface decompInterface;
    private BasicBlockModel basicBlockModel;

    @Override
    public void run() throws Exception {
        System.err.println("{\"debug\": \"Script starting\"}");

        // Get binary hash and filepath from arguments
        String[] args = getScriptArgs();
        if (args.length < 2) {
            System.err.println("{\"error\": \"Both SHA256 and filepath arguments are required\"}");
            return;
        }
        String sha256 = args[0];
        String filepath = args[1];

        // Add debug output after setup
        System.err.println("{\"debug\": \"Processing file: " + args[1] + "\"}");

        // Initialize analysis components
        setupDecompiler();
        basicBlockModel = new BasicBlockModel(currentProgram);

        // Create the main JSON object for output
        JSONObject output = new JSONObject();
        output.put("sha256", sha256);
        output.put("decompiled", new JSONArray());
        output.put("disassembled", new JSONArray());
        output.put("cfg", new JSONArray());

        // Process all functions
        FunctionIterator functions = currentProgram.getFunctionManager().getFunctions(true);
        for (Function function : functions) {
            processFunction(function, output);
        }

        System.err.println("{\"debug\": \"Preparing final output\"}");
        // Output the final JSON to stdout
        System.out.println(output.toString());
    }

    private void setupDecompiler() {
        decompInterface = new DecompInterface();
        DecompileOptions options = new DecompileOptions();
        decompInterface.setOptions(options);
        decompInterface.openProgram(currentProgram);
    }

    private void processFunction(Function function, JSONObject output) {
        try {
            Address entry = function.getEntryPoint();
            String functionName = function.getName();
            String functionAddress = entry.toString();

            // Process each analysis type independently
            boolean hasAnyResults = false;

            try {
                if (processDecompiledCode(function, output.getJSONArray("decompiled"),
                                        functionName, functionAddress)) {
                    hasAnyResults = true;
                }
            } catch (Exception e) {
                System.err.println(String.format(
                    "{\"error\": \"Decompilation failed for function %s: %s\"}",
                    functionName, e.getMessage().replace("\"", "'")));
            }

            try {
                if (processDisassembledCode(function, output.getJSONArray("disassembled"),
                                        functionName, functionAddress)) {
                    hasAnyResults = true;
                }
            } catch (Exception e) {
                System.err.println(String.format(
                    "{\"error\": \"Disassembly failed for function %s: %s\"}",
                    functionName, e.getMessage().replace("\"", "'")));
            }

            try {
                if (processCFG(function, output.getJSONArray("cfg"), functionAddress)) {
                    hasAnyResults = true;
                }
            } catch (Exception e) {
                System.err.println(String.format(
                    "{\"error\": \"CFG extraction failed for function %s: %s\"}",
                    functionName, e.getMessage().replace("\"", "'")));
            }

            if (!hasAnyResults) {
                System.err.println(String.format(
                    "{\"warning\": \"No results obtained for function %s\"}",
                    functionName));
            }

        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.err.println(String.format(
                "{\"error\": \"Failed to process function: %s\"}",
                e.getMessage().replace("\"", "'")));
        }
    }

    private boolean processDecompiledCode(Function function, JSONArray decompArray,
                                        String functionName, String functionAddress) {
        try {
            DecompileResults results = decompInterface.decompileFunction(function, 30, monitor);
            if (results == null || !results.decompileCompleted()) {
                System.err.println(String.format(
                    "{\"warning\": \"Decompilation incomplete for function %s\"}",
                    functionName));
                return false;
            }

            String decompiledCode = results.getDecompiledFunction().getC();
            if (decompiledCode == null || decompiledCode.trim().isEmpty()) {
                System.err.println(String.format(
                    "{\"warning\": \"Empty decompilation result for function %s\"}",
                    functionName));
                return false;
            }

            String contentHash = calculateHash(decompiledCode);

            JSONObject functionObj = new JSONObject();
            functionObj.put("decompiled_content_hash", contentHash);
            functionObj.put("decompiled_function_name", functionName);
            functionObj.put("decompiled_function_address", functionAddress);
            functionObj.put("decompiled_function", decompiledCode);

            decompArray.put(functionObj);
            return true;

        } catch (Exception e) {
            throw new RuntimeException("Decompilation error: " + e.getMessage(), e);
        }
    }

    private boolean processDisassembledCode(Function function, JSONArray disasmArray,
                                        String functionName, String functionAddress) {
        try {
            StringBuilder disassembly = new StringBuilder();
            StringBuilder normalized = new StringBuilder();
            int instructionCount = 0;
            boolean hasValidInstructions = false;

            Listing listing = currentProgram.getListing();
            AddressSetView functionBody = function.getBody();
            InstructionIterator instructions = listing.getInstructions(functionBody, true);

            while (instructions.hasNext()) {
                try {
                    Instruction instr = instructions.next();
                    if (instr != null) {
                        String disasmLine = instr.toString();
                        if (disasmLine != null && !disasmLine.trim().isEmpty()) {
                            disassembly.append(disasmLine).append("\n");
                            normalized.append(normalizeInstruction(disasmLine)).append("\n");
                            instructionCount++;
                            hasValidInstructions = true;
                        }
                    }
                } catch (Exception e) {
                    System.err.println(String.format(
                        "{\"warning\": \"Skipped invalid instruction in %s: %s\"}",
                        functionName, e.getMessage().replace("\"", "'")));
                }
            }

            if (!hasValidInstructions) {
                System.err.println(String.format(
                    "{\"warning\": \"No valid instructions found in function %s\"}",
                    functionName));
                return false;
            }

            String disassembledCode = disassembly.toString();
            String contentHash = calculateHash(disassembledCode);

            JSONObject functionObj = new JSONObject();
            functionObj.put("disassembled_content_hash", contentHash);
            functionObj.put("disassembled_function_name", functionName);
            functionObj.put("disassembled_function_address", functionAddress);
            functionObj.put("disassembled_function", disassembledCode);
            functionObj.put("normalized_disassembly", normalized.toString());
            functionObj.put("instruction_count", instructionCount);

            // Initialize similarity fields as null
            functionObj.put("minhash_signature", JSONObject.NULL);
            functionObj.put("opcode_frequency_vector", JSONObject.NULL);
            functionObj.put("api_calls_vector", JSONObject.NULL);
            functionObj.put("instruction_embedding", JSONObject.NULL);

            disasmArray.put(functionObj);
            return true;

        } catch (Exception e) {
            throw new RuntimeException("Disassembly error: " + e.getMessage(), e);
        }
    }

    private boolean processCFG(Function function, JSONArray cfgArray, String functionAddress) {
        try {
            CodeBlockIterator blocks = basicBlockModel.getCodeBlocksContaining(
                function.getBody(), monitor);

            boolean hasValidBlocks = false;

            while (blocks.hasNext()) {
                try {
                    CodeBlock block = blocks.next();
                    String blockInstructions = getBlockInstructions(block);

                    if (blockInstructions == null || blockInstructions.trim().isEmpty()) {
                        continue;
                    }

                    String blockId = calculateHash(blockInstructions);

                    JSONObject blockObj = new JSONObject();
                    blockObj.put("block_id", blockId);
                    blockObj.put("function_address", functionAddress);
                    blockObj.put("block_instructions", blockInstructions);

                    // Process successors with error handling
                    JSONArray successorAddresses = new JSONArray();
                    try {
                        CodeBlockReferenceIterator successors = block.getDestinations(monitor);
                        while (successors.hasNext()) {
                            try {
                                CodeBlockReference ref = successors.next();
                                if (ref != null && ref.getDestinationAddress() != null) {
                                    successorAddresses.put(ref.getDestinationAddress().toString());
                                }
                            } catch (Exception e) {
                                System.err.println(String.format(
                                    "{\"warning\": \"Skipped invalid successor in block %s: %s\"}",
                                    blockId, e.getMessage().replace("\"", "'")));
                            }
                        }
                    } catch (Exception e) {
                        System.err.println(String.format(
                            "{\"warning\": \"Error processing successors for block %s: %s\"}",
                            blockId, e.getMessage().replace("\"", "'")));
                    }

                    blockObj.put("successor_blocks", successorAddresses);
                    cfgArray.put(blockObj);
                    hasValidBlocks = true;

                } catch (Exception e) {
                    System.err.println(String.format(
                        "{\"warning\": \"Skipped invalid block in function %s: %s\"}",
                        functionAddress, e.getMessage().replace("\"", "'")));
                }
            }

            return hasValidBlocks;

        } catch (Exception e) {
            throw new RuntimeException("CFG extraction error: " + e.getMessage(), e);
        }
    }

    private String getBlockInstructions(CodeBlock block) {
        StringBuilder instructions = new StringBuilder();
        try {
            AddressIterator addresses = block.getAddresses(true);
            while (addresses.hasNext()) {
                try {
                    Address addr = addresses.next();
                    if (addr != null) {
                        Instruction instr = currentProgram.getListing().getInstructionAt(addr);
                        if (instr != null) {
                            instructions.append(instr.toString()).append("\n");
                        }
                    }
                } catch (Exception e) {
                    System.err.println(String.format(
                        "{\"warning\": \"Skipped invalid instruction at address %s: %s\"}",
                        addresses.next(), e.getMessage().replace("\"", "'")));
                }
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.err.println(String.format(
                "{\"warning\": \"Error getting block instructions: %s\"}",
                e.getMessage().replace("\"", "'")));
        }
        return instructions.toString();
    }

    private String normalizeInstruction(String instruction) {
        try {
            if (instruction == null || instruction.trim().isEmpty()) {
                return "";
            }
            return instruction.replaceAll("0x[0-9a-fA-F]+", "IMM")
                            .replaceAll("\\b\\d+\\b", "NUM")
                            .replaceAll("[\\[\\]\\+\\-\\*/%&|^]+", "_OP_");
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.err.println(String.format(
                "{\"warning\": \"Error normalizing instruction: %s\"}",
                e.getMessage().replace("\"", "'")));
            return instruction;
        }
    }

    private String calculateHash(String content) {
        try {
            if (content == null || content.trim().isEmpty()) {
                return "";
            }
            MessageDigest digest = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-256");
            byte[] hash = digest.digest(content.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
            StringBuilder hexString = new StringBuilder();
            for (byte b : hash) {
                hexString.append(String.format("%02x", b));
            }
            return hexString.toString();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.err.println(String.format(
                "{\"error\": \"Error calculating hash: %s\"}",
                e.getMessage().replace("\"", "'")));
            return "";
        }
    }
}