N. S. Aswathy

12 papers B 1C 2Misc 2Journal 2Unranked 5
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 Misc conf
VLSID
N. S. Aswathy, Harsh Verma, Hemangee K. Kapoor
2024 J jnl
J. Syst. Archit.
N. S. Aswathy, Hemangee K. Kapoor
2024 C conf
ICCD
N. S. Aswathy, Hemangee K. Kapoor
2024 conf
ISQED
N. S. Aswathy, Hemangee K. Kapoor
2023 conf
VLSI-SoC (Selected Papers)
N. S. Aswathy, Aishwarya Gupta, Hemangee K. Kapoor
2023 J jnl
ACM Trans. Embed. Comput. Syst.
N. S. Aswathy, Arnab Sarkar, Hemangee K. Kapoor
2023 conf
ISQED
N. S. Aswathy, Hemangee K. Kapoor
2023 C conf
VLSI-SoC
Aishwarya Gupta, N. S. Aswathy, Hemangee K. Kapoor
2023 Misc conf
VLSID
N. S. Aswathy, Deep Bhuinya, Hemangee K. Kapoor
2022 conf
ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI
N. S. Aswathy, Sreesiddesh Bhavanasi, Arnab Sarkar, Hemangee K. Kapoor
2021 B conf
RTCSA
N. S. Aswathy, Hemangee K. Kapoor, Arnab Sarkar
2017 conf
VDAT
N. S. Aswathy, R. S. Reshma Raj, Abhijit Das, John Jose, V. R. Josna
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("/", ".")