N. Nasurudeen Ahamed

12 papers Journal 7Unranked 5
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
Secur. Priv.
Sunayana Das, Tushar Kanta Samal, Bhabendu Kumar Mohanta, N. Nasurudeen Ahamed
2026 conf
ISDFS
Thangavel Murugan, Maryam Saif Abdulla Saeed Almazrouei, Hind Abdulla Asman Balmur Al Ameri, N. Nasurudeen Ahamed, Aysha Salem Hamdan Obaid Alkaabi, Priyan Malarvizhi Kumar, Shamsa Rashid Salem Balhas Alshamsi, Alia Ali Salem Alwali Almazrouei
2026 J jnl
Comput.
Thangavel Murugan, N. Nasurudeen Ahamed, Nura Shifa Musa, Eiman Mubarak Masoud Alahbabi, Ruqayyah Ali Ahmed Alyammahi, Abebe Belay Adege, Afedi Abdi, Zemzem Mohammed Megersa
2026 conf
ISDFS
Thangavel Murugan, Anoud Salem Alkarbi, Maryam Ahmed Alzeyoudi, Noura Ali Matar Alketbi, Afra Khaleifah Alteneiji, N. Nasurudeen Ahamed
2026 J jnl
Multim. Tools Appl.
N. Nasurudeen Ahamed, R. Vignesh, Tanweer Alam
2025 conf
ISDFS
Thangavel Murugan, Fotoon Khalifah Abdullah, Ghalya Salem Mohamed Alshuraiqi Almehrzi, Eiman Mohamed Mohamed Alsereidi, Aisha Aldahmani, Eiman Mubarak Masoud Alahbabi, N. Nasurudeen Ahamed
2025 J jnl
J. Cloud Comput.
Nura Shifa Musa, Thangavel Murugan, N. Nasurudeen Ahamed, Nada Masood Mirza
2025 J jnl
Comput.
Thangavel Murugan, Varalakshmi Perumal, N. Nasurudeen Ahamed
2024 J jnl
Neural Comput. Appl.
Tanweer Alam, Ruchi Gupta, N. Nasurudeen Ahamed, Arif Ullah
2024 conf
ICSPIS
N. Nasurudeen Ahamed, Thangavel Murugan
2023 conf
ICMLDE
N. Nasurudeen Ahamed, P. Karthikeyan
2020 J jnl
Int. J. Intell. Networks
N. Nasurudeen Ahamed, P. Karthikeyan
redb/extractors/decompiler/apk/library_filter.py
← Index redb/extractors/decompiler/apk/library_filter.py python
"""Package-based library filtering for APK DEX code analysis.

Determines whether a method belongs to a known library/framework package
and should be filtered out of content tables. This is the Android equivalent
of is_lib_or_thunk() in the Binary Ninja pipeline.
"""

import os
from typing import Dict, List


DEFAULT_LIBRARY_PREFIXES = [
    "android.",
    "androidx.",
    "com.google.android.",
    "com.google.firebase.",
    "com.google.gson.",
    "com.google.protobuf.",
    "kotlin.",
    "kotlinx.",
    "org.apache.",
    "com.squareup.",
    "io.reactivex.",
    "org.reactivestreams.",
    "com.facebook.",
    "com.crashlytics.",
    "io.fabric.",
    "org.junit.",
    "org.mockito.",
]


class LibraryFilter:
    """Filters library/framework classes from APK analysis."""

    def __init__(self, prefixes: List[str] = None):
        env_prefixes = os.getenv("APK_LIBRARY_PREFIXES")
        if env_prefixes:
            self._prefixes = [p.strip() for p in env_prefixes.split(",") if p.strip()]
        elif prefixes is not None:
            self._prefixes = prefixes
        else:
            self._prefixes = DEFAULT_LIBRARY_PREFIXES

        # Convert Dalvik-style prefixes to both formats for matching
        self._dot_prefixes = tuple(self._prefixes)

        self._stats = {"library": 0, "user": 0}

    def is_library(self, class_name: str) -> bool:
        """Check if a class belongs to a known library/framework package.

        Accepts both Java dot notation (com.example.Foo) and Dalvik
        descriptor notation (Lcom/example/Foo;).
        """
        # Normalize Dalvik descriptor to dot notation
        normalized = self._normalize_class_name(class_name)

        is_lib = normalized.startswith(self._dot_prefixes)
        if is_lib:
            self._stats["library"] += 1
        else:
            self._stats["user"] += 1
        return is_lib

    def get_filter_stats(self) -> Dict[str, int]:
        """Return counts of filtered vs. retained classes."""
        return dict(self._stats)

    @staticmethod
    def _normalize_class_name(class_name: str) -> str:
        """Convert Dalvik descriptor to dot notation.

        Lcom/example/Foo; -> com.example.Foo
        com.example.Foo -> com.example.Foo
        """
        if class_name.startswith("L") and class_name.endswith(";"):
            return class_name[1:-1].replace("/", ".")
        return class_name.replace("/", ".")