James C. Knight

41 papers B 2C 1Journal 23Unranked 14
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 conf
ICONS
Balazs Meszaros, James C. Knight, Jonathan Timcheck, Thomas Nowotny
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Balázs Mészáros, James C. Knight, Jonathan Timcheck, Thomas Nowotny
2025 J jnl
CoRR
James C. Knight, Johanna Senk, Thomas Nowotny
2025 J jnl
Neuromorph. Comput. Eng.
Fabian Schubert, James C. Knight, Andrew Philippides, Thomas Nowotny
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Johanna Senk, Anno Christopher Kurth, Steve B. Furber, Tobias Gemmeke, Bruno Golosio, Arne Heittmann, James C. Knight, Eric Müller, Tobias Noll, Thomas Nowotny, Gorka Peraza Coppola, Luca Peres, Oliver Rhodes, Andrew Rowley, Johannes Schemmel, Tim Stadtmann, Tom Tetzlaff, Gianmarco Tiddia, Sacha J. van Albada, Jose Villamar, Markus Diesmann
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Balázs Mészáros, James C. Knight, Thomas Nowotny
2025 conf
NICE
Thomas Shoesmith, James C. Knight, Balazs Meszaros, Jonathan Timcheck, Thomas Nowotny
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Thomas Shoesmith, James C. Knight, Balázs Mészáros, Jonathan Timcheck, Thomas Nowotny
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Zainab Aizaz, James C. Knight, Thomas Nowotny
2025 conf
NICE
Zainab Aizaz, James C. Knight, Thomas Nowotny
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Zainab Aizaz, James C. Knight, Thomas Nowotny
2025 J jnl
PLoS Comput. Biol.
Giulio Filippi, James C. Knight, Andrew Philippides, Paul Graham
2025 J jnl
Neuromorph. Comput. Eng.
Thomas Nowotny, James Paul Turner, James C. Knight
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Balázs Mészáros, James C. Knight, Danyal Akarca, Thomas Nowotny
2025 conf
Living Machines
Thomas Misiek, Andrew Philippides, Paul Graham, James C. Knight
2025 J jnl
PLoS Comput. Biol.
Anindya Ghosh, Sarah Nicholas, Karin Nordström, Thomas Nowotny, James C. Knight
2024 conf
SAB
Efstathios Kagioulis, James C. Knight, Andrew Philippides, Anindya Ghosh, Amany Amin, Paul Graham, Thomas Nowotny
2024 J jnl
PLoS Comput. Biol.
Rachael Stentiford, James C. Knight, Thomas Nowotny, Andrew Philippides, Paul Graham
2024 conf
ECCV Workshops (24)
Anindya Ghosh, Thomas Nowotny, James C. Knight
2024 conf
COINS
T. Fernandez-Hart, Tatiana Kalganova, James C. Knight
2024 conf
SAB
Thomas Misiek, Andrew Philippides, James C. Knight
2024 J jnl
Frontiers Comput. Neurosci.
Balázs Mészáros, James C. Knight, Thomas Nowotny
2024 J jnl
Neurocomputing
T. Fernandez-Hart, James C. Knight, Tatiana Kalganova
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Balázs Mészáros, James C. Knight, Thomas Nowotny
2023 conf
NICE
James C. Knight, Thomas Nowotny
2023 J jnl
Frontiers Neuroinformatics
James B. Aimone, Omar Awile, Markus Diesmann, James C. Knight, Thomas Nowotny, Felix Schürmann
2023 conf
ICONS
Anindya Ghosh, Thomas Nowotny, James C. Knight
2023 conf
TAROS
Dexter R. Shepherd, James C. Knight
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Jason Yik, Soikat Hasan Ahmed, Zergham Ahmed, Brian Anderson, Andreas G. Andreou, Chiara Bartolozzi, Arindam Basu, Douwe den Blanken, Petrut Bogdan, Sander M. Bohté, Younes Bouhadjar, Sonia M. Buckley, Gert Cauwenberghs, Federico Corradi, Guido de Croon, Andreea Danielescu, Anurag Reddy Daram, Mike Davies, Yigit Demirag, Jason Eshraghian, Jeremy Forest, Steve B. Furber, P. Michael Furlong, Aditya Gilra, Giacomo Indiveri, Siddharth Joshi, Vedant Karia, Lyes Khacef, James C. Knight, Laura Kriener, Rajkumar Kubendran, Dhireesha Kudithipudi, Gregor Lenz, Rajit Manohar, Christian Mayr, Konstantinos P. Michmizos, Dylan R. Muir, Emre Neftci, Thomas Nowotny, Fabrizio Ottati, Ayça Özcelikkale, Noah Pacik-Nelson, Priyadarshini Panda, Pao-Sheng Sun, Melika Payvand, Christian Pehle, Mihai A. Petrovici, Christoph Posch, Alpha Renner, Yulia Sandamirskaya, Clemens JS Schaefer, André van Schaik, Johannes Schemmel, Catherine D. Schuman, Jae-sun Seo, Sumit Bam Shrestha, Manolis Sifalakis, Amos Sironi, Kenneth Michael Stewart, Terrence C. Stewart, Philipp Stratmann, Guangzhi Tang, Jonathan Timcheck, Marian Verhelst, Craig M. Vineyard, Bernhard Vogginger, Amirreza Yousefzadeh, Biyan Zhou, Fatima Tuz Zohora, Charlotte Frenkel, Vijay Janapa Reddi
2022 conf
IPDPS Workshops
Thomas Nowotny, James C. Knight
2022 conf
NICE
James C. Knight, Thomas Nowotny
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Thomas Nowotny, James Paul Turner, James C. Knight
2022 J jnl
Neuromorph. Comput. Eng.
James Paul Turner, James C. Knight, Ajay Subramanian, Thomas Nowotny
2021 J jnl
Nat. Comput. Sci.
James C. Knight, Thomas Nowotny
2021 J jnl
Frontiers Neuroinformatics
James C. Knight, Anton Komissarov, Thomas Nowotny
2021 J jnl
Appl. Intell.
Phil Husbands, YoonSik Shim, Michael Garvie, Alex Dewar, Norbert Domcsek, Paul Graham, James C. Knight, Thomas Nowotny, Andrew Philippides
2020 conf
Living Machines
Efstathios Kagioulis, Andrew Philippides, Paul Graham, James C. Knight, Thomas Nowotny
2019 C conf
ALIFE
James C. Knight, Daniil Sakhapov, Norbert Domcsek, Alex D. M. Dewar, Paul Graham, Thomas Nowotny, Andrew Philippides
2017
James C. Knight
2016 B conf
IJCNN
James C. Knight, Aaron R. Voelker, Andrew Mundy, Chris Eliasmith, Steve B. Furber
2015 B conf
IJCNN
Andrew Mundy, James C. Knight, Terrence C. Stewart, Stephen B. Furber
redb/extractors/decompiler/_archive/GhidraDecompilerScript-latest.java
← Index redb/extractors/decompiler/_archive/GhidraDecompilerScript-latest.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 {
        // 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];

        // 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);
        }

        // 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) {
        Address entry = function.getEntryPoint();
        String functionName = function.getName();
        String functionAddress = entry.toString();

        // Process decompiled code
        processDecompiledCode(function, output.getJSONArray("decompiled"), 
                            functionName, functionAddress);

        // Process disassembled code
        processDisassembledCode(function, output.getJSONArray("disassembled"), 
                              functionName, functionAddress);

        // Process CFG
        processCFG(function, output.getJSONArray("cfg"), functionAddress);
    }

    private void processDecompiledCode(Function function, JSONArray decompArray, 
                                     String functionName, String functionAddress) {
        DecompileResults results = decompInterface.decompileFunction(function, 30, monitor);
        if (results.decompileCompleted()) {
            String decompiledCode = results.getDecompiledFunction().getC();
            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);
        }
    }

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

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

            while (instructions.hasNext()) {
                try {
                    Instruction instr = instructions.next();
                    String disasmLine = instr.toString();
                    disassembly.append(disasmLine).append("\n");
                    normalized.append(normalizeInstruction(disasmLine)).append("\n");
                    instructionCount++;
                } catch (Exception e) {
                    System.err.println("Error processing instruction in " + functionName + ": " + e.getMessage());
                }
            }

            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);

            // Set similarity-related fields to null for now
            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);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.err.println("Error processing disassembly for " + functionName + ": " + e.getMessage());
        }
    }

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

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

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

                // Get successor blocks
                CodeBlockReferenceIterator successors = block.getDestinations(monitor);
                JSONArray successorAddresses = new JSONArray();
                while (successors.hasNext()) {
                    CodeBlockReference ref = successors.next();
                    successorAddresses.put(ref.getDestinationAddress().toString());
                }
                blockObj.put("successor_blocks", successorAddresses);

                cfgArray.put(blockObj);
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.err.println("{\"error\": \"Error processing CFG: " + 
                             e.getMessage().replace("\"", "'") + "\"}");
        }
    }

    private String normalizeInstruction(String instruction) {
        return instruction.replaceAll("0x[0-9a-fA-F]+", "IMM")
                        .replaceAll("\\b\\d+\\b", "NUM");
    }

    private String getBlockInstructions(CodeBlock block) {
        StringBuilder instructions = new StringBuilder();
        AddressIterator addresses = block.getAddresses(true);
        while (addresses.hasNext()) {
            Address addr = addresses.next();
            Instruction instr = currentProgram.getListing().getInstructionAt(addr);
            if (instr != null) {
                instructions.append(instr.toString()).append("\n");
            }
        }
        return instructions.toString();
    }

    private String calculateHash(String content) {
        try {
            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("{\"error\": \"Error calculating hash\"}");
            return "";
        }
    }
}