James Finnie-Ansley

12 papers A 2C 2Journal 5Unranked 3
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2024 J jnl
ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact.
James Prather, Brent N. Reeves, Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, Juho Leinonen, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Garrett B. Powell, James Finnie-Ansley, Eddie Antonio Santos
2024 conf
SIGCSE Virtual (2)
Eliane Stampfer Wiese, James Finnie-Ansley, Rodrigo Duran, Kathryn I. Cunningham, Mehmet Arif Demirtas
2024 J jnl
Commun. ACM
Paul Denny, James Prather, Brett A. Becker, James Finnie-Ansley, Arto Hellas, Juho Leinonen, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Brent N. Reeves, Eddie Antonio Santos, Sami Sarsa
2024 A conf
ICPC
Ewan D. Tempero, Paul Denny, James Finnie-Ansley, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Diana Kirk, Juho Leinonen, Asma Shakil, Robert J. Sheehan, James Tizard, Yu-Cheng Tu, Burkhard Wuensche
2023 J jnl
CoRR
James Prather, Brent N. Reeves, Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, Juho Leinonen, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Garrett B. Powell, James Finnie-Ansley, Eddie Antonio Santos
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Paul Denny, James Prather, Brett A. Becker, James Finnie-Ansley, Arto Hellas, Juho Leinonen, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Brent N. Reeves, Eddie Antonio Santos, Sami Sarsa
2023 C conf
ACE
James Finnie-Ansley, Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Eddie Antonio Santos, James Prather, Brett A. Becker
2023 conf
SIGCSE (1)
Brett A. Becker, Paul Denny, James Finnie-Ansley, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, James Prather, Eddie Antonio Santos
2022 conf
SIGCSE (1)
James Finnie-Ansley, Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Brett A. Becker, Paul Denny, James Finnie-Ansley, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, James Prather, Eddie Antonio Santos
2022 C conf
ACE
James Finnie-Ansley, Paul Denny, Brett A. Becker, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, James Prather
2021 A conf
ICER
James Finnie-Ansley, Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly
redb/extractor_registry.py
← Index redb/extractor_registry.py python
"""
Extractor registry with lazy loading by file type.

Groups extractors by file type (pe, elf, macho, apk) and only imports
the relevant group when that file type is first encountered. This avoids
loading heavy dependencies (pefile, lief, androguard, etc.) into workers
that don't need them.
"""
import importlib
import logging

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

# Registry: group name -> list of (module_path, class_names)
_REGISTRY = {
    "pe": [
        ("redb.extractors.pe_extractors", [
            "PEFeaturesExtractor",
            "PEImportExtractor",
            "PEResourceExtractor",
            "PEOverlayExtractor",
            "PESectionExtractor",
            "PESignatureExtractor",
            "PEExtraFindings",
            "PEInconstistencyTestsExtractor",
            "PEDotNetExtractor",
        ]),
    ],
    "elf": [
        ("redb.extractors.elf_extractors", [
            "ELFFeaturesExtractor",
            "ELFSegmentExtractor",
            "ELFSectionExtractor",
            "ELFDependencyExtractor",
            "ELFSymbolExtractor",
            "ELFImportExtractor",
            "ELFExportExtractor",
            "ELFRelocationExtractor",
            "ELFNotesExtractor",
        ]),
    ],
    "macho": [
        ("redb.extractors.macho_extractors", [
            "MachOFeaturesExtractor",
            "MachOSegmentExtractor",
            "MachOImportExtractor",
            "MachOExportExtractor",
            "MachODylibExtractor",
            "MachOSignatureExtractor",
        ]),
    ],
    "apk": [
        ("redb.extractors.apk_extractors", [
            "APKFeaturesExtractor",
            "APKManifestExtractor",
            "APKPermissionsExtractor",
            "APKSignatureExtractor",
            "APKDexExtractor",
            "APKResourceExtractor",
            "APKNativeLibExtractor",
            "APKInconsistencyTestsExtractor",
        ]),
        ("redb.extractors.decompiler.DecompileAPK", [
            "DecompileAPK",
        ]),
    ],
    "js": [
        ("redb.extractors.js_extractors", [
            "JSFeaturesExtractor",
            "JSSuspiciousAPIsExtractor",
            "JSStringsExtractor",
            "JSDeobfuscationExtractor",
            "JSContentExtractor",
        ]),
    ],
}

# Map filetype labels (from Magika) to registry group names
FILETYPE_TO_GROUP = {
    "pebin": "pe",
    "elf": "elf",
    "macho": "macho",
    "apk": "apk",
    "javascript": "js",
}

# Cache: group name -> {class_name: class}
_group_cache = {}


def _load_group(group_name):
    """Import all extractors for a group. Cached after first call."""
    if group_name in _group_cache:
        return _group_cache[group_name]

    logger.debug(f"Loading extractor group: {group_name}")

    # Suppress androguard logging before importing APK extractors
    if group_name == "apk":
        from loguru import logger as loguru_logger
        loguru_logger.disable("androguard")

    classes = {}
    for module_path, class_names in _REGISTRY[group_name]:
        mod = importlib.import_module(module_path)
        for name in class_names:
            classes[name] = getattr(mod, name)

    _group_cache[group_name] = classes
    return classes


def get_filetype_modules(filetype):
    """Get the list of format-specific extractor classes for a filetype.

    Returns only analysis extractors (excludes decompilers like DecompileAPK).
    """
    group = FILETYPE_TO_GROUP.get(filetype)
    if not group:
        return []
    classes = _load_group(group)
    return [cls for name, cls in classes.items() if not name.startswith("Decompile")]


def get_extractor_class(name):
    """Look up a single extractor class by name across all groups.

    Checks cached groups first, then loads groups on demand.
    """
    # Check already-loaded groups first
    for group_classes in _group_cache.values():
        if name in group_classes:
            return group_classes[name]

    # Search all groups (triggers lazy loading)
    for group_name in _REGISTRY:
        classes = _load_group(group_name)
        if name in classes:
            return classes[name]

    return None