Mahmoud Salamati

22 papers A* 2A 1B 3Journal 12Unranked 3
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 A conf
HotOS
Rebecca Isaacs, Peter Alvaro, Rupak Majumdar, Kiran Kumar, Muniswamy Reddy, Mahmoud Salamati, Sadegh Soudjani
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Peter Alvaro, Rebecca Isaacs, Rupak Majumdar, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, Mahmoud Salamati, Sadegh Soudjani
2025 B conf
SMC
Arabinda Ghosh, Mahmoud Salamati, Sadegh Soudjani
2025 A* conf
ICML
Rupak Majumdar, Mahmoud Salamati, Sadegh Soudjani
2024
Mahmoud Salamati
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Arabinda Ghosh, Mahmoud Salamati, Sadegh Soudjani
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Rupak Majumdar, Mahmoud Salamati, Sadegh Soudjani
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Rupak Majumdar, Mahmoud Salamati, Sadegh Soudjani
2023 J jnl
ACM Trans. Embed. Comput. Syst.
Rupak Majumdar, Mahmoud Salamati, Sadegh Soudjani
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Milad Kazemi, Rupak Majumdar, Mahmoud Salamati, Sadegh Soudjani, Ben Wooding
2022 B conf
MFCS
Julian D'Costa, Toghrul Karimov, Rupak Majumdar, Joël Ouaknine, Mahmoud Salamati, James Worrell
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Julian D'Costa, Toghrul Karimov, Joël Ouaknine, Mahmoud Salamati, James Worrell
2021 conf
ICCPS
Rupak Majumdar, Kaushik Mallik, Mahmoud Salamati, Sadegh Soudjani, Mehrdad Zareian
2021 B conf
MFCS
Julian D'Costa, Toghrul Karimov, Rupak Majumdar, Joël Ouaknine, Mahmoud Salamati, Sadegh Soudjani, James Worrell
2020 J jnl
ACM Trans. Model. Perform. Evaluation Comput. Syst.
Mahmoud Salamati, Sadegh Soudjani, Rupak Majumdar
2020 A* conf
ICALP
Rupak Majumdar, Mahmoud Salamati, Sadegh Soudjani
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Rupak Majumdar, Mahmoud Salamati, Sadegh Soudjani
2019 conf
ARCH@CPSIoTWeek
Alessandro Abate, Henk A. P. Blom, Nathalie Cauchi, Kurt Degiorgio, Martin Fränzle, Ernst Moritz Hahn, Sofie Haesaert, Hao Ma, Meeko Oishi, Carina Pilch, Anne Remke, Mahmoud Salamati, Sadegh Soudjani, Birgit van Huijgevoort, Abraham P. Vinod
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Mahmoud Salamati, Sadegh Soudjani, Rupak Majumdar
2019 J jnl
ACM Trans. Embed. Comput. Syst.
Mahmoud Salamati, Rocco Salvia, Eva Darulova, Sadegh Soudjani, Rupak Majumdar
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Mahmoud Salamati, Sadegh Soudjani, Rupak Majumdar
2018 conf
QEST
Mahmoud Salamati, Sadegh Soudjani, Rupak Majumdar
redb/extractors/decompiler/apk/smali_normalization.py
← Index redb/extractors/decompiler/apk/smali_normalization.py python
"""Semantic normalization of Dalvik/smali instructions.

Analogous to Binary Ninja's LLIL normalization: strips register allocation
noise and instruction encoding variants while preserving semantic operations.

Three normalization levels (most aggressive to most detailed):
  - 'category':    semantic category only (MOV, ALU, CALL, ...)
  - 'opcode':      base opcode, width-invariant (add, sub, invoke, ...)
  - 'opcode_api':  opcode category + API method/field references for
                   invoke/field/alloc instructions (default for MinHash)

References:
  - Smali+ 12-category reduction (Canfora et al.)
  - MOSDroid opcode family grouping
  - DroidSIFT/DroidSim API-sensitive similarity
"""

import re
from typing import List

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Dalvik opcode -> semantic category mapping
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Prefix-matched against instruction opcodes. Order matters for overlapping
# prefixes (longer/more-specific prefixes should come first in iteration,
# but since we use startswith and break on first match, we order by
# specificity within the list).

OPCODE_CATEGORIES = {
    # Arithmetic/logic
    "add": "ALU", "sub": "ALU", "mul": "ALU", "div": "ALU",
    "rem": "ALU", "and": "ALU", "or": "ALU", "xor": "ALU",
    "shl": "ALU", "shr": "ALU", "ushr": "ALU", "neg": "ALU",
    "not": "ALU",
    # Data movement
    "move": "MOV", "const": "CONST",
    # Memory access (field/array)
    "iget": "LOAD", "sget": "LOAD", "aget": "LOAD",
    "iput": "STORE", "sput": "STORE", "aput": "STORE",
    # Invocations
    "invoke": "CALL",
    # Control flow
    "if": "BRANCH", "goto": "JMP",
    "switch": "SWITCH",
    "return": "RET",
    # Object/type
    "new": "ALLOC", "check": "TYPE", "instance": "TYPE",
    # Array
    "fill": "ARR", "array": "ARR",
    # Comparison
    "cmpl": "CMP", "cmpg": "CMP", "cmp": "CMP",
    # Exception / synchronization
    "throw": "EXC", "monitor": "SYNC",
    # Conversion (int-to-long, float-to-int, etc.)
    "int-to": "CONV", "long-to": "CONV", "float-to": "CONV",
    "double-to": "CONV",
}

# Pre-compiled regexes for operand extraction
_METHOD_REF_RE = re.compile(r"(L[\w/$]+;->[\w<>]+\(.*?\)[\w/$;\[]*)")
_FIELD_REF_RE = re.compile(r"(L[\w/$]+;->[\w]+:[\w/$;\[]+)")
_CLASS_REF_RE = re.compile(r"(L[\w/$]+;)")
_CONST_STRING_RE = re.compile(r'^const-string(?:/jumbo)?\s')


def categorize_opcode(opcode: str) -> str:
    """Map a Dalvik opcode to its semantic category.

    Prefix-matched: 'add-int/2addr' matches 'add' -> 'ALU'.
    Returns 'OTHER' for unrecognized opcodes.
    """
    for prefix, cat in OPCODE_CATEGORIES.items():
        if opcode.startswith(prefix):
            return cat
    return "OTHER"


# Mapping from semantic categories to the ACFG feature vector indices
# used by Binary Ninja's build_block_features (cfg_features.py).
# This enables cross-platform ACFG feature comparison.
CATEGORY_TO_ACFG_INDEX = {
    "ALU": 0,       # CAT_ARITHMETIC
    "CONV": 0,      # arithmetic-adjacent
    "CMP": 4,       # CAT_COMPARISON
    "MOV": 2,       # CAT_TRANSFER
    "CONST": 2,     # transfer-adjacent (loading constants)
    "LOAD": 5,      # CAT_MEMORY
    "STORE": 5,     # CAT_MEMORY
    "CALL": 3,      # CAT_CALL
    "BRANCH": 1,    # CAT_LOGIC (conditional logic)
    "JMP": 1,       # CAT_LOGIC
    "SWITCH": 1,    # CAT_LOGIC
    "RET": 2,       # CAT_TRANSFER
    "ALLOC": 5,     # CAT_MEMORY (heap allocation)
    "TYPE": 6,      # CAT_OTHER
    "ARR": 5,       # CAT_MEMORY
    "EXC": 6,       # CAT_OTHER
    "SYNC": 6,      # CAT_OTHER
    "OTHER": 6,     # CAT_OTHER
}


def normalize_instruction(line: str, level: str = "opcode_api") -> str:
    """Normalize a single smali instruction line.

    Args:
        line: A single smali instruction (whitespace-stripped).
        level: Normalization level:
            'category'   - most aggressive: just semantic category
            'opcode'     - base opcode only, width/addressing-mode invariant
            'opcode_api' - category + API references for invoke/field/alloc
                          (default, best for MinHash similarity)

    Returns:
        Normalized instruction string, or empty string for non-instructions.
    """
    stripped = line.strip()
    if not stripped:
        return ""

    parts = stripped.split(None, 1)
    opcode = parts[0]
    operands = parts[1] if len(parts) > 1 else ""

    if level == "category":
        return categorize_opcode(opcode)

    if level == "opcode":
        # Strip type/width suffixes for invariance:
        # add-int, add-long, add-float -> 'add'
        # add-int/2addr -> 'add'
        base = re.split(r"[-/]", opcode)[0]
        return base

    if level == "opcode_api":
        # const-string: preserve string content (encrypted strings are a
        # key malware indicator)
        if _CONST_STRING_RE.match(stripped):
            # Extract the string literal
            str_match = re.search(r'"(.*)"', operands)
            if str_match:
                return f"CONST_STR \"{str_match.group(1)}\""
            return "CONST_STR"

        # invoke-*: preserve method reference
        if opcode.startswith("invoke"):
            ref = _METHOD_REF_RE.search(operands)
            if ref:
                return f"CALL {ref.group(1)}"
            return "CALL"

        # Field access: preserve field reference
        if opcode.startswith(("iget", "iput", "sget", "sput")):
            ref = _FIELD_REF_RE.search(operands)
            if ref:
                cat = "LOAD" if "get" in opcode else "STORE"
                return f"{cat} {ref.group(1)}"
            # Fallback: try space-separated format from androguard
            # e.g. "iget v0, p0, Lcom/Foo;->field Ljava/lang/String;"
            space_ref = re.search(
                r"(L[\w/$]+;->[\w]+)\s+([\w/$;\[]+)", operands
            )
            if space_ref:
                cat = "LOAD" if "get" in opcode else "STORE"
                return f"{cat} {space_ref.group(1)}:{space_ref.group(2)}"
            cat = "LOAD" if "get" in opcode else "STORE"
            return cat

        # new-instance: preserve allocated type
        if opcode.startswith("new-instance") or opcode == "new-array":
            ref = _CLASS_REF_RE.search(operands)
            if ref:
                return f"ALLOC {ref.group(1)}"
            return "ALLOC"

        # Everything else: just the category
        return categorize_opcode(opcode)

    # Unknown level: return raw opcode
    return opcode


def normalize_method_body(
    body: str, level: str = "opcode_api"
) -> List[str]:
    """Normalize all instructions in a smali method body.

    Filters out directives (.), labels (:), comments (#), and blank lines.
    Returns a list of normalized instruction strings.

    Args:
        body: Raw smali method body text.
        level: Normalization level (see normalize_instruction).

    Returns:
        List of normalized instruction strings (no empty strings).
    """
    normalized = []
    for line in body.split("\n"):
        stripped = line.strip()
        # Skip non-instructions
        if not stripped:
            continue
        if stripped.startswith((".",":", "#")):
            continue
        result = normalize_instruction(stripped, level)
        if result:
            normalized.append(result)
    return normalized