K. Ganesan

11 papers A 3Misc 1Journal 6Unranked 1
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2000 J jnl
Int. J. Softw. Eng. Knowl. Eng.
K. Ganesan, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Edward B. Allen
1998 J jnl
Int. J. Syst. Sci.
S. M. Smith, K. Ganesan, Pak Cheung Edgar An, S. E. Dunn
1997 A conf
ISSRE
Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, K. Ganesan, Edward B. Allen, Fletcher D. Ross, Rama Munikoti, Nishith Goel, Amit Nandi
1996 J jnl
Auton. Robots
C. Vasudevan, K. Ganesan
1994 J jnl
Theor. Comput. Sci.
K. Ganesan
1992 J jnl
SIAM J. Comput.
K. Ganesan, Steven Homer
1992 conf
FSTTCS
K. Ganesan
1991 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Computers
K. B. Lakshmanan, Bala Ravikumar, K. Ganesan
1989 A conf
STACS
K. Ganesan, Steven Homer
1987 A conf
STACS
Bala Ravikumar, K. Ganesan, K. B. Lakshmanan
1976 Misc conf
ICASSP
Wen C. Lin, K. Ganesan
redb/extractors/decompiler/bninja/analysis/strings.py
← Index redb/extractors/decompiler/bninja/analysis/strings.py python
from collections import Counter
import math

class StringAnalysis:
    def __init__(self, bv, functions):
        self.bv = bv
        self.functions = functions

    def entropy(self, s: str) -> float:
        """Compute Shannon entropy of a string."""
        if not s:
            return 0.0
        freq = Counter(s)
        length = len(s)
        return -sum((count / length) * math.log2(count / length) for count in freq.values())

    def analyze(self):
        """
        Extract unique strings from the binary.

        Deduplicates by (string, encoding) within the same binary, keeping the
        first occurrence (lowest offset). Cross-binary deduplication and
        aggregation is handled by ClickHouse materialized views.
        """
        strings = {}

        # Sort strings by their starting address
        sorted_entries = sorted(self.bv.strings, key=lambda e: e.start)

        for entry in sorted_entries:
            # Key is the string and its encoding
            key = (entry.value, entry.type.name)

            # Skip if this string (value + encoding) was already added.
            # Because entries are sorted by address, the first one is always kept.
            if key in strings:
                continue

            # Store only the first occurrence with schema-matching field names
            # entry.length is the raw byte length, len(entry.value) is decoded string length
            string_entry = {
                "string": entry.value,
                "string_raw": entry.raw,
                "string_encoding": entry.type.name,
                "string_offset": entry.start,
                "string_length": len(entry.value),
                "string_raw_length": entry.length,
                "string_entropy": self.entropy(entry.value),
            }

            strings[key] = string_entry

        # Return as list for export compatibility
        return list(strings.values())