James Foster

34 papers A* 5A 1B 1C 1Journal 22Unranked 4
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Peter Koepernik, Thomas Coxon, James Foster
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Sam McCallum, Kamran Arora, James Foster
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Maximilian Scott, Dáire O'Kane, Andraz Jelincic, James Foster
2024 J jnl
CoRR
James Foster
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Sam McCallum, James Foster
2024 A* conf
ICRA
Stefan Fasano, James Foster, Sylvain Bertrand, Christian DeBuys, Robert J. Griffin
2024 A conf
IROS
James Foster, Stephen McCrory, Christian DeBuys, Sylvain Bertrand, Robert J. Griffin
2024 J jnl
CoRR
James Foster, Stephen McCrory, Christian DeBuys, Sylvain Bertrand, Robert J. Griffin
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Andraz Jelincic, James Foster, Patrick Kidger
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Stefan Fasano, James Foster, Sylvain Bertrand, Christian DeBuys, Robert J. Griffin
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Xi Wu, Joe Benassi, Yaqi Zhang, Uyeong Jang, James Foster, Stella Kim, Yujing Sun, Somesh Jha, John Cieslewicz, Jeffrey F. Naughton
2023 J jnl
CoRR
James Foster
2023 conf
Humanoids
Robert J. Griffin, James Foster, Stefan Fasano, Brandon Shrewsbury, Sylvain Bertrand
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Robert J. Griffin, James Foster, Stefan Fasano, Brandon Shrewsbury, Sylvain Bertrand
2021 J jnl
CoRR
James Foster, Karen Habermann
2021 A* conf
NeurIPS
Patrick Kidger, James Foster, Xuechen Li, Terry J. Lyons
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Patrick Kidger, James Foster, Xuechen Li, Terry J. Lyons
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Frederik Geth, James Foster
2021 A* conf
ICML
James Morrill, Cristopher Salvi, Patrick Kidger, James Foster
2021 A* conf
ICML
Patrick Kidger, James Foster, Xuechen Li, Terry J. Lyons
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Patrick Kidger, James Foster, Xuechen Li, Harald Oberhauser, Terry J. Lyons
2021 J jnl
CoRR
David B. Smith, Frederik Geth, Elliott Vercoe, Andrew Feutrill, Ming Ding, Jonathan Chan, James Foster, Thierry Rakotoarivelo
2021 J jnl
CoRR
James Foster, Terry J. Lyons, Harald Oberhauser
2020 conf
CHI Extended Abstracts
Adam Beddoe, Romana Burgess, Lucian Carp, James Foster, Adam Fox, Leechay Moran, Peter Bennett, Daniel Bennett
2020 J jnl
CoRR
James Morrill, Patrick Kidger, Cristopher Salvi, James Foster, Terry J. Lyons
2020 A* conf
NeurIPS
Patrick Kidger, James Morrill, James Foster, Terry J. Lyons
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Patrick Kidger, James Morrill, James Foster, Terry J. Lyons
2020 C conf
IGARSS
Michela Ravanelli, Mattia Crespi, James Foster
2015 conf
SAICSIT
Erin Versfeld, James Foster, Michelle Kuttel
2014 J jnl
Hum. Factors
Kurt T. Hegmann, Matthew S. Thiese, Eric M. Wood, Arun Garg, Jay M. Kapellusch, James Foster, Jeremy Biggs, Hannah Edwards, Jacqueline Wertsch, Richard Kendall
2014 J jnl
Hum. Factors
Matthew S. Thiese, Kurt T. Hegmann, Eric M. Wood, Arun Garg, J. Steven Moore, Jay M. Kapellusch, James Foster, Tom Greene, Greg Stoddard, Jeremy Biggs
2011 J jnl
Soc. Choice Welf.
Indranil Dutta, James Foster, Ajit Mishra
2007 B conf
EuroGP
Maarten Keijzer, James Foster
2006 conf
OOPSLA Companion
James Foster, Paul Juell
redb/extractors/decompiler/_archive/DecompileGhidra-old.py
← Index redb/extractors/decompiler/_archive/DecompileGhidra-old.py python
from hashlib import sha256
import inspect
from pathlib import Path
import subprocess
import json
import subprocess
import json
import os
import tempfile
import uuid
import shutil
import time

from dotenv import load_dotenv

from redb.extractors.enum import Tag
from redb.models.dataclasses import Decompiled
from redb.extractors.extractor import Extractor


class DecompileGhidra(Extractor):
    def __init__(
        self,
        filepath,
        log,
        index_prefix=None,
        elastic_index=None,
        known_benign=False,
        known_malicious=False,
    ):
        super().__init__(
            filepath, log, index_prefix, elastic_index, known_benign, known_malicious
        )
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)
        self.elastic_index = self.index_prefix + "-ghidra"
        self.ghidra_path = "/opt/ghidra"
        self.java_script_path = (
            self.ghidra_path
            + "/Ghidra/Features/Base/ghidra_scripts/GhidraDecompilerScript.java"
        )
        self.decompiled = None
        load_dotenv()
        self.decompiled_folder = os.getenv("DECOMPILED_FOLDER", "/opt/decompiled")
        self.log.debug(f"Decompiled folder: {self.decompiled_folder}")

    def run_command(self, cmd, env=None):
        try:
            self.log.info(f"Starting command: {' '.join(cmd)}")
            start_time = time.time()
            TIMEOUT = 1200  # 20 minutes in seconds
            process = subprocess.Popen(
                cmd, env=env, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, text=True
            )

            while True:
                output = process.stdout.readline()
                if output:
                    print(output.strip())
                if process.poll() is not None:
                    break
            try:
                stdout, stderr = process.communicate(timeout=TIMEOUT)
            except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
                process.kill()
                self.log.error(f"Ghidra timed out after {TIMEOUT} seconds")
                # raise subprocess.TimeoutExpired(process.args, TIMEOUT)
                return None
            end_time = time.time()

            self.log.debug(
                f"Command finished. Execution time: {end_time - start_time:.2f} seconds"
            )
            self.log.debug(f"Return code: {process.returncode}")

            if process.returncode != 0:
                self.log.error(f"Error output:\n{stderr}")
                return None
            return stdout
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error running command {' '.join(cmd)}: {e}")
            return None

    def analyze_binary(self):
        self.log.debug(f"Ghidra path: {self.ghidra_path}")
        self.log.debug(f"Binary path: {self.filepath}")
        self.log.debug(f"Java script path: {self.java_script_path}")

        # Check if Java script exists
        if not os.path.exists(self.java_script_path):
            self.log.error(f"Error: Java script not found at {self.java_script_path}")
            return None

        # Set up environment variables
        env = os.environ.copy()
        java_home = "/usr/lib/jvm/java-17-openjdk-amd64"  # Adjust this path if needed
        env["JAVA_HOME"] = java_home
        env["PATH"] = f"{java_home}/bin:{env['PATH']}"
        env["LD_LIBRARY_PATH"] = f"{java_home}/lib:{env.get('LD_LIBRARY_PATH', '')}"
        env["DECOMPILED_FOLDER"] = self.decompiled_folder

        # Print environment variables for debugging
        self.log.debug(f"JAVA_HOME: {env['JAVA_HOME']}")
        self.log.debug(f"PATH: {env['PATH']}")
        self.log.debug(f"LD_LIBRARY_PATH: {env['LD_LIBRARY_PATH']}")

        # Check Ghidra installation
        analyzeHeadless_path = f"{self.ghidra_path}/support/analyzeHeadless"
        self.log.debug(
            f"analyzeHeadless exists: {os.path.exists(analyzeHeadless_path)}"
        )

        # Create a temporary project directory
        project_path = tempfile.gettempdir() + "/ghidra_" + str(uuid.uuid4())
        os.makedirs(project_path, exist_ok=True)
        self.log.debug(f"Created temporary project path: {project_path}")
        output_file = ""

        try:
            # Run Ghidra's headless analyzer
            analyze_cmd = [
                analyzeHeadless_path,
                project_path,
                "TempProject",
                "-import",
                self.filepath,
                "-postScript",
                self.java_script_path,
                self.sha256,
                "-deleteProject",
            ]

            result = self.run_command(analyze_cmd, env=env)
            if result is None:
                return None

            # Read the output JSON file
            output_file = os.path.join(
                self.decompiled_folder, self.sha256 + "-decompiled.json"
            )
            if os.path.exists(output_file):
                with open(output_file, "r") as f:
                    functions = json.load(f)
                return functions
            else:
                self.log.error(
                    f"Output file {output_file} not found. Ghidra analysis may have failed."
                )
                return None
        finally:
            # Clean up
            if os.path.exists(project_path):
                shutil.rmtree(project_path)
                self.log.debug(f"Deleted temporary project path: {project_path}")

    def extract(self):
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)
        try:
            functions = self.analyze_binary()

            if functions:
                self.log.info(f"Extracted functions from {self.filepath}:")
                for func in functions:
                    id = sha256(func["address"].encode()).hexdigest()
                    self.decompiled = Decompiled(
                        _id=id,
                        decompiled_function_name=func["name"],
                        decompiled_function_address=func["address"],
                        decompiled_function=func["decompiled"],
                    )
                    self.export_to_elastic([self.decompiled])
            else:
                self.log.error("No decompiled functions extracted.")
            return True
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting decompiled information: {e}")
            return None

    def tag(self):
        return Tag.DECOMPILED.value