James B. Farison

12 papers C 1Misc 1Journal 8Unranked 2
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2010 C conf
IGARSS
Zhuocheng Yang, James B. Farison
2009 conf
IPCV
Zhuocheng Yang, James B. Farison, Michael Thompson
2002 conf
SSIAI
Reed Olmstead, James B. Farison
1995 Misc conf
ICASSP
James B. Farison, Mahmoud K. Quweider
1992 J jnl
J. Vis. Commun. Image Represent.
John W. V. Miller, Malayappan Shridhar, James B. Farison, Young-In Shin
1992 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Image Process.
John W. V. Miller, James B. Farison, Young-In Shin
1990 J jnl
Autom.
Sri R. Kolla, James B. Farison
1990 J jnl
Autom.
Sri R. Kolla, James B. Farison
1989 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng.
Larry R. Low, Joe P. Windham, James B. Farison, William J. Potvin
1989 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng.
Larry R. Low, James B. Farison, Joe P. Windham, William J. Potvin
1966 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory
James B. Farison
1965 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory
James B. Farison
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("/", ".")