Katharina Dost

24 papers A* 1B 2Journal 14Unranked 7
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
Environ. Model. Softw.
Katharina Dost, Kohji Muraoka, Anne-Gaelle E. Ausseil, Rubianca Benavidez, Brendon Blue, Nic Conland, Chris Daughney, Annette F. Semadeni-Davies, Linh Hoang, Anna Hooper, Theodore Alfred Kpodonu, Tapuwa Marapara, Richard McDowell, Trung Nguyen, Dang Anh Nguyet, Ned Norton, Deniz Özkundakci, Lisa Pearson, James Rolinson, Ra Smith, Tom Stephens, Reina Tamepo, Ken Taylor, Vincent van Uitregt, Bethanna Jackson, Theo Sarris, Alexander Elliott, Jörg Wicker
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Christian L. Camacho Villalón, Ana Nikolikj, Katharina Dost, Eva Tuba, Saso Dzeroski, Tome Eftimov
2026 J jnl
Expert Syst. Appl.
Rui Zhang, Jörg Wicker, Katharina Dost, Qinli Yang, Zeyu Chen, Junming Shao
2025 J jnl
Mach. Learn.
Kejun Dai, Jonathan Kim, Saso Dzeroski, Jörg Wicker, Gillian Dobbie, Katharina Dost
2025 B conf
DS
Sintija Stevanoska, Katharina Dost, Christian L. Camacho Villalón, Saso Dzeroski
2025 conf
ECML/PKDD (8)
Katharina Dost, Steffen Albrecht, Paul H. Maclean, Jörg Wicker, Sandeep K. Gupta
2024 J jnl
J. Cheminformatics
Derek Long, Liam Eade, Matthew P. Sullivan, Katharina Dost, Samuel M. Meier-Menches, David C. Goldstone, Christian G. Hartinger, Jörg S. Wicker, Katerina Taskova
2024 J jnl
J. Cheminformatics
Jasmin Hafner, Tim Lorsbach, Sebastian Schmidt, Liam Brydon, Katharina Dost, Kunyang Zhang, Kathrin Fenner, Jörg Wicker
2024 J jnl
BMC Medical Informatics Decis. Mak.
Steffen Albrecht, David Broderick, Katharina Dost, Isabella Cheung, Nhung Nghiem, Milton Wu, Johnny Zhu, Nooriyan Poonawala-Lohani, Sarah Jamison, Damayanthi Rasanathan, Sue Huang, Adrian Trenholme, Alicia Stanley, Shirley Lawrence, Samantha Marsh, Lorraine Castelino, Janine Paynter, Nikki Turner, Peter McIntyre, Patricia Riddle, Cameron Grant, Gillian Dobbie, Jörg Simon Wicker
2024 J jnl
Mach. Learn.
Zac Pullar-Strecker, Katharina Dost, Eibe Frank, Jörg Wicker
2024 J jnl
Mach. Learn.
Jiachen Lyu, Katharina Dost, Yun Sing Koh, Jörg Wicker
2024 conf
DS (2)
Sean Park, Jörg Wicker, Katharina Dost
2023 conf
PAKDD (1)
Xinglong Chang, Katharina Dost, Kaiqi Zhao, Ambra Demontis, Fabio Roli, Gillian Dobbie, Jörg Wicker
2023 J jnl
J. Cheminformatics
Katharina Dost, Zac Pullar-Strecker, Liam Brydon, Kunyang Zhang, Jasmin Hafner, Patricia J. Riddle, Jörg S. Wicker
2023 conf
PAKDD (2)
Yixiao Lu, Yokiu Lee, Haoran Feng, Johnathan Chi-Ho Leung, Alvin Cheung, Katharina Dost, Katerina Taskova, Thomas Lacombe
2023 conf
ECML/PKDD (7)
Zac Pullar-Strecker, Xinglong Chang, Liam Brydon, Ioannis Ziogas, Katharina Dost, Jörg Wicker
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Zac Pullar-Strecker, Xinglong Chang, Liam Brydon, Ioannis Ziogas, Katharina Dost, Jörg Wicker
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Xinglong Chang, Katharina Dost, Gillian Dobbie, Jörg Wicker
2023 conf
PAKDD (4)
Zeyu Chen, Katharina Dost, Xuan Zhu, Xinglong Chang, Gillian Dobbie, Jörg Wicker
2022 conf
PAKDD (2)
Katharina Dost, Hamish Duncanson, Ioannis Ziogas, Patricia Riddle, Jörg Wicker
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Zac Pullar-Strecker, Katharina Dost, Eibe Frank, Jörg Wicker
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Luke Chang, Katharina Dost, Kaiqi Zhao, Ambra Demontis, Fabio Roli, Gill Dobbie, Jörg Wicker
2020 B conf
ICECCS
Behzad Farokhi, Katharina Dost, Gerald Weber, Jing Sun, Christof Lutteroth
2020 A* conf
ICDM
Katharina Dost, Katerina Taskova, Patricia Riddle, Jörg Wicker
tests/unit/test_decompile_decompiler.py
← Index tests/unit/test_decompile_decompiler.py python
"""Unit tests (mocked BN) for bninja/decompiler.py — BinaryNinjaDecompiler."""
import sys
import json
import time
import pytest
from unittest.mock import MagicMock, patch, mock_open

from tests.unit.conftest_binja_stubs import (
    install_binja_stubs,
    MockFunction,
    MockBasicBlock,
    MockDisassemblyLine,
    MockToken,
    MockSymbol,
    MockBinaryView,
    MockEdge,
    SymbolType,
    InstructionTextTokenType,
    BranchType,
)

install_binja_stubs()

from redb.extractors.decompiler.bninja.decompiler import (
    BinaryNinjaDecompiler,
    is_lib_or_thunk,
)
from redb.extractors.decompiler.bninja.function_type import FunctionType


# ============================================================================
# 10a. BinaryNinjaDecompiler
# ============================================================================


class TestBinaryNinjaDecompilerLogError:
    def _make_decompiler(self):
        with patch.object(BinaryNinjaDecompiler, "__init__", lambda self, *a, **kw: None):
            d = BinaryNinjaDecompiler.__new__(BinaryNinjaDecompiler)
            d.log = MagicMock()
            d.errors = []
            d.filepath = "/fake/binary"
            d.bv = None
            d.analysis_results = None
            d.exporters = []
            d.index_prefix = None
            d.filetype = None
            d.goresym = None
            d.BNINJA_TIMEOUT = 60
            return d

    def test_log_error_appends(self):
        d = self._make_decompiler()
        d.log_error("test error", "func1", 0x1000, Exception("boom"), "extract")
        assert len(d.errors) == 1

    def test_log_error_schema(self):
        d = self._make_decompiler()
        d.log_error("test error", "func1", 0x1000, Exception("boom"), "extract")
        error = d.errors[0]
        expected_keys = [
            "function_name",
            "function_address",
            "error_location",
            "error_message",
            "error_details",
            "error_type",
            "timestamp",
        ]
        for key in expected_keys:
            assert key in error, f"Missing key: {key}"


class TestBinaryNinjaDecompilerIsTooFewBlocks:
    def _make_decompiler(self):
        with patch.object(BinaryNinjaDecompiler, "__init__", lambda self, *a, **kw: None):
            d = BinaryNinjaDecompiler.__new__(BinaryNinjaDecompiler)
            d.log = MagicMock()
            d.errors = []
            d.MIN_FUNCTION_SIZE = 10
            return d

    def test_is_too_few_blocks_none(self):
        d = self._make_decompiler()
        func = MagicMock()
        func.basic_blocks = None
        assert d.is_too_few_blocks(func) is False

    def test_is_too_few_blocks_empty(self):
        # Empty basic_blocks now returns True because Binja creates function
        # stubs with empty blocks before analysis completes — we no longer
        # skip these so they get filtered downstream instead.
        d = self._make_decompiler()
        func = MagicMock()
        func.basic_blocks = []
        assert d.is_too_few_blocks(func) is True

    def test_is_too_few_blocks_small_single(self):
        d = self._make_decompiler()
        block = MagicMock()
        block.disassembly_text = [MagicMock() for _ in range(5)]  # < 10
        func = MagicMock()
        func.basic_blocks = [block]
        assert d.is_too_few_blocks(func) is False

    def test_is_too_few_blocks_large_single(self):
        d = self._make_decompiler()
        block = MagicMock()
        block.disassembly_text = [MagicMock() for _ in range(15)]  # >= 10
        func = MagicMock()
        func.basic_blocks = [block]
        assert d.is_too_few_blocks(func) is True

    def test_is_too_few_blocks_multiple(self):
        d = self._make_decompiler()
        func = MagicMock()
        func.basic_blocks = [MagicMock(), MagicMock()]
        assert d.is_too_few_blocks(func) is True


class TestIsLibOrThunk:
    def test_is_lib_or_thunk_user(self):
        func = MagicMock()
        func.symbol.type = SymbolType.FunctionSymbol
        func.is_thunk = False
        assert is_lib_or_thunk(func) is True  # NOT filtered

    def test_is_lib_or_thunk_thunk(self):
        func = MagicMock()
        func.symbol.type = SymbolType.FunctionSymbol
        func.is_thunk = True
        assert is_lib_or_thunk(func) is False  # Filtered out

    def test_is_lib_or_thunk_external(self):
        func = MagicMock()
        func.symbol.type = SymbolType.ImportedFunctionSymbol
        func.is_thunk = False
        assert is_lib_or_thunk(func) is False  # Filtered out


class TestBinaryNinjaDecompilerExtract:
    def _make_decompiler(self):
        with patch.object(BinaryNinjaDecompiler, "__init__", lambda self, *a, **kw: None):
            d = BinaryNinjaDecompiler.__new__(BinaryNinjaDecompiler)
            d.log = MagicMock()
            d.errors = []
            d.filepath = "/fake/binary"
            d.bv = MagicMock()
            d.analysis_results = None
            d.exporters = []
            d.index_prefix = None
            d.filetype = None
            d.goresym = None
            d.BNINJA_TIMEOUT = 60
            d.arch = MagicMock()
            return d

    def test_extract_success(self):
        d = self._make_decompiler()
        mock_results = {
            "decompiled": [{"test": True}],
            "disassembled": [],
            "cfg": [],
            "llil": [],
            "errors": [],
            "strings": [],
            "mlil": [],
        }
        with patch.object(d, "analyze_binary", return_value=mock_results):
            result = d.extract()
            assert result is True
            assert d.analysis_results == mock_results

    def test_extract_failure(self):
        d = self._make_decompiler()
        with patch.object(d, "analyze_binary", return_value=None):
            result = d.extract()
            assert result is False

    def test_tag(self):
        d = self._make_decompiler()
        assert d.tag() == "DECOMPILED"


class TestBinaryNinjaDecompilerAnalyzeBinary:
    def _make_decompiler(self):
        with patch.object(BinaryNinjaDecompiler, "__init__", lambda self, *a, **kw: None):
            d = BinaryNinjaDecompiler.__new__(BinaryNinjaDecompiler)
            d.log = MagicMock()
            d.errors = []
            d.filepath = "/fake/binary"
            d.analysis_results = None
            d.exporters = []
            d.index_prefix = None
            d.filetype = None
            d.goresym = None
            d.BNINJA_TIMEOUT = 60
            d.arch = MagicMock()
            d.MIN_FUNCTION_SIZE = 10
            return d

    def test_analyze_binary_links_hlil_disasm(self):
        """Bi-directional hash linkage between decompiled and disassembled."""
        d = self._make_decompiler()
        d.bv = MagicMock()
        d.bv.functions = []
        # Mock methods to return controlled data
        with patch.object(d, "extract_hlil") as mock_hlil, \
             patch.object(d, "extract_disasm") as mock_disasm, \
             patch.object(d, "extract_cfg", return_value=None), \
             patch.object(d, "extract_lowlevel", return_value=None):

            mock_hlil.return_value = {
                "decompiled_function_hash": "HLIL_HASH",
                "decompiled_function_name": "test",
                "decompiled_function": "code",
            }
            mock_disasm.return_value = {
                "disassembled_function_hash": "DISASM_HASH",
                "disassembled_function_no_addresses": "asm",
            }

            # Manually feed one function
            mock_func = MagicMock()
            mock_func.symbol.type = SymbolType.FunctionSymbol
            mock_func.is_thunk = False
            mock_func.basic_blocks = [MagicMock(), MagicMock()]
            d.bv.functions = [mock_func]

            results = d.analyze_binary()
            if results and results["decompiled"]:
                hlil_r = results["decompiled"][0]
                disasm_r = results["disassembled"][0]
                assert hlil_r["disassembled_function_hash"] == "DISASM_HASH"
                assert disasm_r["decompiled_function_hash"] == "HLIL_HASH"

    def test_analyze_binary_links_llil_disasm(self):
        """Bi-directional linkage between LLIL and disassembly."""
        d = self._make_decompiler()
        d.bv = MagicMock()

        with patch.object(d, "extract_hlil", return_value=None), \
             patch.object(d, "extract_disasm") as mock_disasm, \
             patch.object(d, "extract_cfg", return_value=None), \
             patch.object(d, "extract_lowlevel") as mock_llil:

            mock_disasm.return_value = {
                "disassembled_function_hash": "DISASM_HASH",
                "disassembled_function_no_addresses": "asm",
            }
            mock_llil.return_value = {
                "sha256_llil": "LLIL_HASH",
                "tlsh_llil": "tlsh_val",
            }

            mock_func = MagicMock()
            mock_func.symbol.type = SymbolType.FunctionSymbol
            mock_func.is_thunk = False
            mock_func.basic_blocks = [MagicMock(), MagicMock()]
            d.bv.functions = [mock_func]

            results = d.analyze_binary()
            if results and results["llil"]:
                llil_r = results["llil"][0]
                assert llil_r["disassembled_function_hash"] == "DISASM_HASH"

    def test_analyze_binary_links_cfg_disasm(self):
        """CFG gets disassembled_function_hash."""
        d = self._make_decompiler()
        d.bv = MagicMock()

        with patch.object(d, "extract_hlil", return_value=None), \
             patch.object(d, "extract_disasm") as mock_disasm, \
             patch.object(d, "extract_cfg") as mock_cfg, \
             patch.object(d, "extract_lowlevel", return_value=None):

            mock_disasm.return_value = {
                "disassembled_function_hash": "DISASM_HASH",
                "disassembled_function_no_addresses": "asm",
            }
            mock_cfg.return_value = {
                "function_address": 0x1000,
                "cyclomatic_complexity": 3,
            }

            mock_func = MagicMock()
            mock_func.symbol.type = SymbolType.FunctionSymbol
            mock_func.is_thunk = False
            mock_func.basic_blocks = [MagicMock(), MagicMock()]
            d.bv.functions = [mock_func]

            results = d.analyze_binary()
            if results and results["cfg"]:
                cfg_r = results["cfg"][0]
                assert cfg_r["disassembled_function_hash"] == "DISASM_HASH"

    def test_analyze_binary_sets_cyclomatic(self):
        """cyclomatic_complexity set on disasm from CFG."""
        d = self._make_decompiler()
        d.bv = MagicMock()

        with patch.object(d, "extract_hlil", return_value=None), \
             patch.object(d, "extract_disasm") as mock_disasm, \
             patch.object(d, "extract_cfg") as mock_cfg, \
             patch.object(d, "extract_lowlevel", return_value=None):

            mock_disasm.return_value = {
                "disassembled_function_hash": "HASH",
                "disassembled_function_no_addresses": "asm",
            }
            mock_cfg.return_value = {
                "function_address": 0x1000,
                "cyclomatic_complexity": 7,
            }

            mock_func = MagicMock()
            mock_func.symbol.type = SymbolType.FunctionSymbol
            mock_func.is_thunk = False
            mock_func.basic_blocks = [MagicMock(), MagicMock()]
            d.bv.functions = [mock_func]

            results = d.analyze_binary()
            if results and results["disassembled"]:
                disasm_r = results["disassembled"][0]
                assert disasm_r.get("cyclomatic_complexity") == 7


class TestApplyGoReSym:
    def _make_decompiler(self):
        with patch.object(BinaryNinjaDecompiler, "__init__", lambda self, *a, **kw: None):
            d = BinaryNinjaDecompiler.__new__(BinaryNinjaDecompiler)
            d.log = MagicMock()
            d.errors = []
            d.bv = MagicMock()
            return d

    def test_apply_goresym_user_functions(self):
        d = self._make_decompiler()
        d.goresym = "/tmp/goresym.json"
        data = {
            "UserFunctions": [{"Start": 0x1000, "FullName": "main.main"}],
        }
        with patch("builtins.open", mock_open(read_data=json.dumps(data))):
            d._BinaryNinjaDecompiler__apply_goresym()
            d.bv.define_user_symbol.assert_called()

    def test_apply_goresym_std_functions(self):
        d = self._make_decompiler()
        d.goresym = "/tmp/goresym.json"
        data = {
            "StdFunctions": [{"Start": 0x2000, "FullName": "runtime.main"}],
        }
        with patch("builtins.open", mock_open(read_data=json.dumps(data))):
            d._BinaryNinjaDecompiler__apply_goresym()
            d.bv.define_user_symbol.assert_called()

    def test_apply_goresym_invalid_json(self):
        d = self._make_decompiler()
        d.goresym = "/tmp/goresym.json"
        with patch("builtins.open", mock_open(read_data="not json {")):
            d._BinaryNinjaDecompiler__apply_goresym()
            # Should log error but not crash
            d.log.log_error if hasattr(d.log, 'log_error') else None
            # Just verify no exception raised