Nahema Marchal

16 papers A* 2Journal 12Unranked 2
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Nahema Marchal, Stephanie C. Y. Chan, Matija Franklin, Manon Revel, Geoff Keeling, Roberta Fischli, Bilva Chandra, Iason Gabriel
2025 A* conf
ICLR
Canfer Akbulut, Kevin Robinson, Maribeth Rauh, Isabela Albuquerque, Olivia Wiles, Laura Weidinger, Verena Rieser, Yana Hasson, Nahema Marchal, Iason Gabriel, William Isaac, Lisa Anne Hendricks
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Jennifer Chien, A. Stevie Bergman, Kevin R. McKee, Nenad Tomasev, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Rida Qadri, Nahema Marchal, William Isaac
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Seliem El-Sayed, Canfer Akbulut, Amanda McCroskery, Geoff Keeling, Zachary Kenton, Zaria Jalan, Nahema Marchal, Arianna Manzini, Toby Shevlane, Shannon Vallor, Daniel Susser, Matija Franklin, Sophie Bridgers, Harry Law, Matthew Rahtz, Murray Shanahan, Michael Henry Tessler, Arthur Douillard, Tom Everitt, Sasha Brown
2024 conf
AIES (1)
Maribeth Rauh, Nahema Marchal, Arianna Manzini, Lisa Anne Hendricks, Ramona Comanescu, Canfer Akbulut, Tom Stepleton, Juan Mateos-Garcia, A. Stevie Bergman, Jackie Kay, Conor Griffin, Ben Bariach, Iason Gabriel, Verena Rieser, William Isaac, Laura Weidinger
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Nahema Marchal, Rachel Xu, Rasmi Elasmar, Iason Gabriel, Beth Goldberg, William Isaac
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Christopher Summerfield, Lisa Argyle, Michiel A. Bakker, Teddy Collins, Esin Durmus, Tyna Eloundou, Iason Gabriel, Deep Ganguli, Kobi Hackenburg, Gillian K. Hadfield, Luke Hewitt, Saffron Huang, Hélène Landemore, Nahema Marchal, Aviv Ovadya, Ariel D. Procaccia, Mathias Risse, Bruce Schneier, Elizabeth Seger, Divya Siddarth, Henrik Skaug Sætra, MH Tessler, Matthew Botvinick
2024 A* conf
EMNLP
Laura Weidinger, John Mellor, Bernat Guillen Pegueroles, Nahema Marchal, Ravin Kumar, Kristian Lum, Canfer Akbulut, Mark Diaz, A. Stevie Bergman, Mikel Rodriguez, Verena Rieser, William Isaac
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Laura Weidinger, John Mellor, Bernat Guillen Pegueroles, Nahema Marchal, Ravin Kumar, Kristian Lum, Canfer Akbulut, Mark Diaz, A. Stevie Bergman, Mikel Rodriguez, Verena Rieser, William Isaac
2024 conf
FAccT
Arianna Manzini, Geoff Keeling, Nahema Marchal, Kevin R. McKee, Verena Rieser, Iason Gabriel
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Iason Gabriel, Arianna Manzini, Geoff Keeling, Lisa Anne Hendricks, Verena Rieser, Hasan Iqbal, Nenad Tomasev, Ira Ktena, Zachary Kenton, Mikel Rodriguez, Seliem El-Sayed, Sasha Brown, Canfer Akbulut, Andrew Trask, Edward Hughes, A. Stevie Bergman, Renee Shelby, Nahema Marchal, Conor Griffin, Juan Mateos-Garcia, Laura Weidinger, Winnie Street, Benjamin Lange, Alex Ingerman, Alison Lentz, Reed Enger, Andrew Barakat, Victoria Krakovna, John Oliver Siy, Zeb Kurth-Nelson, Amanda McCroskery, Vijay Bolina, Harry Law, Murray Shanahan, Lize Alberts, Borja Balle, Sarah de Haas, Yetunde Ibitoye, Allan Dafoe, Beth Goldberg, Sébastien Krier, Alexander Reese, Sims Witherspoon, Will Hawkins, Maribeth Rauh, Don Wallace, Matija Franklin, Josh A. Goldstein, Joel Lehman, Michael Klenk, Shannon Vallor, Courtney Biles, Meredith Ringel Morris, Helen King, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, William Isaac, James Manyika
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Irina Jurenka, Markus Kunesch, Kevin R. McKee, Daniel Gillick, Shaojian Zhu, Sara Wiltberger, Shubham Milind Phal, Katherine L. Hermann, Daniel Kasenberg, Avishkar Bhoopchand, Ankit Anand, Miruna Pîslar, Stephanie Chan, Lisa Wang, Jennifer She, Parsa Mahmoudieh, Aliya Rysbek, Wei-Jen Ko, Andrea Huber, Brett Wiltshire, Gal Elidan, Roni Rabin, Jasmin Rubinovitz, Amit Pitaru, Mac McAllister, Julia Wilkowski, David Choi, Roee Engelberg, Lidan Hackmon, Adva Levin, Rachel Griffin, Michael Sears, Filip Bar, Mia Mesar, Mana Jabbour, Arslan Chaudhry, James Cohan, Sridhar Thiagarajan, Nir Levine, Ben Brown, Dilan Görür, Svetlana Grant, Rachel Hashimshoni, Laura Weidinger, Jieru Hu, Dawn Chen, Kuba Dolecki, Canfer Akbulut, Maxwell L. Bileschi, Laura Culp, Wen-Xin Dong, Nahema Marchal, Kelsie Van Deman, Hema Bajaj Misra, Michael Duah, Moran Ambar, Avi Caciularu, Sandra Lefdal, Christopher Summerfield, James An, Pierre-Alexandre Kamienny, Abhinit Mohdi, Theofilos Strinopoulos, Annie Hale, Wayne Anderson, Luis C. Cobo, Niv Efron, Muktha Ananda, Shakir Mohamed, Maureen Heymans, Zoubin Ghahramani, Yossi Matias, Ben Gomes, Lila Ibrahim
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Toby Shevlane, Sebastian Farquhar, Ben Garfinkel, Mary Phuong, Jess Whittlestone, Jade Leung, Daniel Kokotajlo, Nahema Marchal, Markus Anderljung, Noam Kolt, Lewis Ho, Divya Siddarth, Shahar Avin, Will Hawkins, Been Kim, Iason Gabriel, Vijay Bolina, Jack Clark, Yoshua Bengio, Paul F. Christiano, Allan Dafoe
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Laura Weidinger, Maribeth Rauh, Nahema Marchal, Arianna Manzini, Lisa Anne Hendricks, Juan Mateos-Garcia, A. Stevie Bergman, Jackie Kay, Conor Griffin, Ben Bariach, Iason Gabriel, Verena Rieser, William Isaac
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Jonathan Bright, Nahema Marchal, Bharath Ganesh, Stevan Rudinac
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Nahema Marchal, Bence Kollanyi, Lisa-Maria Neudert, Hubert Au, Philip N. Howard
redb/extractors/decompiler/DecompileAPK.py
← Index redb/extractors/decompiler/DecompileAPK.py python
"""APK Code Analysis Extractor.

Decompiles and disassembles APK DEX bytecode at the method level,
producing per-method content and reference records analogous to
the Binary Ninja code_binja_* tables.

Uses androguard + JADX + apktool to replicate Binary Ninja analysis
depth for Android applications.
"""

import gc
import hashlib
import inspect
import logging
import os
import threading
import time
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from typing import Any, Dict, Optional

from redb.extractors.decompiler.apk.analyzer import APKCodeAnalyzer
from redb.extractors.enum import Tag
from redb.extractors.extractor import Extractor


class DecompileAPK(Extractor):
    """APK code analysis extractor — produces multi-table ClickHouse export.

    Follows the same pattern as DecompileBinja for consistency.
    """

    def __init__(
        self,
        filepath,
        log,
        exporters=None,
        index_prefix=None,
        known_benign=False,
        known_malicious=False,
        filetype=None,
        decompile_modules=None,
    ):
        super().__init__(
            filepath,
            log,
            exporters,
            index_prefix,
            known_benign=known_benign,
            known_malicious=known_malicious,
        )
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)
        self.analysis_results = None
        self.analyzer = None
        self.filetype = filetype or "apk"
        self.decompile_modules = decompile_modules or {"all"}

        try:
            self.APK_DECOMPILE_TIMEOUT = int(
                os.getenv("APK_DECOMPILE_TIMEOUT", "600")
            )
        except ValueError:
            self.log.warning(
                "Invalid APK_DECOMPILE_TIMEOUT value, using default of 600 seconds"
            )
            self.APK_DECOMPILE_TIMEOUT = 600

    def __enter__(self):
        return self

    def __exit__(self, exc_type, exc_val, exc_tb):
        self.cleanup_run()

    def calculate_md5(self, input_str):
        """Calculate MD5 hash of a string."""
        return hashlib.md5(input_str.encode("utf-8")).hexdigest()

    def cleanup_run(self):
        """Clean up after analysis."""
        try:
            if self.analyzer:
                self.analyzer.cleanup()
                self.analyzer = None
            gc.collect()
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error in cleanup: {e}")

    def analyze_apk(self) -> Optional[Dict[str, Any]]:
        """Run APK code analysis and return results."""
        self.log.debug("Starting APK code analysis")
        try:
            self.analyzer = APKCodeAnalyzer(
                filepath=self.filepath,
                timeout=self.APK_DECOMPILE_TIMEOUT,
                log=self.log,
                decompile_modules=self.decompile_modules,
            )
            results = self.analyzer.extract()
            return results
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error in APK code analysis: {e}")
            import traceback
            self.log.error(f"Traceback: {traceback.format_exc()}")
            return None
        finally:
            self.cleanup_run()

    def extract(self):
        """Extract and process all analysis results.

        Uses daemon thread with timeout, same pattern as DecompileBinja.
        """
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

        extraction_completed = False
        extraction_result = False
        extraction_error = None

        def do_extraction():
            nonlocal extraction_completed, extraction_result, extraction_error
            try:
                results = self.analyze_apk()
                if not results:
                    extraction_result = False
                else:
                    self.analysis_results = results
                    self.analysis_results["sha256"] = self.sha256
                    self.analysis_results["sha1"] = self.sha1
                    self.analysis_results["md5"] = self.md5
                    extraction_result = True
            except Exception as e:
                extraction_error = e
                extraction_result = False
            finally:
                extraction_completed = True

        extraction_thread = threading.Thread(target=do_extraction)
        extraction_thread.daemon = True
        extraction_thread.start()

        start_time = time.time()
        while (
            not extraction_completed
            and (time.time() - start_time) < self.APK_DECOMPILE_TIMEOUT
        ):
            time.sleep(1)

        if not extraction_completed:
            self.log.error(
                f"APK extraction timed out after {self.APK_DECOMPILE_TIMEOUT} seconds"
            )
            self.cleanup_run()
            return None

        if extraction_error:
            self.log.error(f"Error in APK extraction: {extraction_error}")
            return None

        return self.analysis_results if extraction_result else None

    def prepare_export_data(self, exporter_type: str) -> Any:
        """Prepare data for database export."""
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)
        if not self.analysis_results:
            return None

        if exporter_type == "ClickHouseExporter":
            now = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
            export = {"multi_table": True}

            # Table 1: Decompiled method content
            if self.analysis_results.get("decompiled_content"):
                export["decompiled_content"] = {
                    "table": "code_apk_decompiled_methods_content",
                    "data": [
                        [
                            f["decompiled_method_hash"],
                            f["decompiled_method"],
                            f.get("decompiled_method_type", "UNKNOWN"),
                            1 if f.get("decompiled_has_string_encryption") else 0,
                            1 if f.get("decompiled_has_reflection_calls") else 0,
                            1 if f.get("decompiled_excessive_goto_count") else 0,
                            now,
                        ]
                        for f in self.analysis_results["decompiled_content"]
                    ],
                    "column_names": [
                        "decompiled_method_hash",
                        "decompiled_method",
                        "decompiled_method_type",
                        "decompiled_has_string_encryption",
                        "decompiled_has_reflection_calls",
                        "decompiled_excessive_goto_count",
                        "analysis_date",
                    ],
                    "column_type_names": [
                        "FixedString(64)",
                        "String",
                        "Enum8('USER'=1, 'LIBRARY'=2, 'UNKNOWN'=5)",
                        "UInt8",
                        "UInt8",
                        "UInt8",
                        "DateTime64(3, 'UTC')",
                    ],
                }

            # Table 2: Decompiled method references
            if self.analysis_results.get("decompiled_refs"):
                export["decompiled_refs"] = {
                    "table": "code_apk_decompiled_methods_references",
                    "data": [
                        [
                            self.analysis_results["sha256"],
                            f["decompiled_method_hash"],
                            f.get("smali_method_hash"),
                            f.get("decompiled_class_name", ""),
                            f.get("decompiled_method_name", ""),
                            f.get("decompiled_method_signature", ""),
                            f.get("decompiled_method_prototype", ""),
                            f.get("functions_caller", []),
                            f.get("functions_call", []),
                            now,
                        ]
                        for f in self.analysis_results["decompiled_refs"]
                    ],
                    "column_names": [
                        "sha256",
                        "decompiled_method_hash",
                        "smali_method_hash",
                        "decompiled_class_name",
                        "decompiled_method_name",
                        "decompiled_method_signature",
                        "decompiled_method_prototype",
                        "functions_caller",
                        "functions_call",
                        "analysis_date",
                    ],
                    "column_type_names": [
                        "FixedString(64)",
                        "FixedString(64)",
                        "Nullable(FixedString(64))",
                        "LowCardinality(String)",
                        "LowCardinality(String)",
                        "String",
                        "String",
                        "Array(String)",
                        "Array(String)",
                        "DateTime64(3, 'UTC')",
                    ],
                }

            # Table 3: Smali method content
            if self.analysis_results.get("smali_content"):
                export["smali_content"] = {
                    "table": "code_apk_smali_methods_content",
                    "data": [
                        [
                            f["smali_method_hash"],
                            f["smali_method"],
                            f.get("smali_method_type", "UNKNOWN"),
                            f.get("smali_instructions_count", 0),
                            f.get("smali_register_count", 0),
                            1 if f.get("smali_has_string_encryption") else 0,
                            1 if f.get("smali_has_reflection_calls") else 0,
                            1 if f.get("smali_excessive_goto_count") else 0,
                            f.get("smali_flattened_score", 0.0),
                            f.get("smali_mba_score", 0.0),
                            now,
                        ]
                        for f in self.analysis_results["smali_content"]
                    ],
                    "column_names": [
                        "smali_method_hash",
                        "smali_method",
                        "smali_method_type",
                        "smali_instructions_count",
                        "smali_register_count",
                        "smali_has_string_encryption",
                        "smali_has_reflection_calls",
                        "smali_excessive_goto_count",
                        "smali_flattened_score",
                        "smali_mba_score",
                        "analysis_date",
                    ],
                    "column_type_names": [
                        "FixedString(64)",
                        "String",
                        "Enum8('USER'=1, 'LIBRARY'=2, 'UNKNOWN'=5)",
                        "UInt32",
                        "UInt16",
                        "UInt8",
                        "UInt8",
                        "UInt8",
                        "Float64",
                        "Float64",
                        "DateTime64(3, 'UTC')",
                    ],
                }

            # Table 4: Smali method references
            if self.analysis_results.get("smali_refs"):
                export["smali_refs"] = {
                    "table": "code_apk_smali_methods_references",
                    "data": [
                        [
                            self.analysis_results["sha256"],
                            f["smali_method_hash"],
                            f.get("decompiled_method_hash"),
                            f.get("smali_class_name", ""),
                            f.get("smali_method_name", ""),
                            f.get("smali_method_signature", ""),
                            now,
                        ]
                        for f in self.analysis_results["smali_refs"]
                    ],
                    "column_names": [
                        "sha256",
                        "smali_method_hash",
                        "decompiled_method_hash",
                        "smali_class_name",
                        "smali_method_name",
                        "smali_method_signature",
                        "analysis_date",
                    ],
                    "column_type_names": [
                        "FixedString(64)",
                        "FixedString(64)",
                        "Nullable(FixedString(64))",
                        "LowCardinality(String)",
                        "LowCardinality(String)",
                        "String",
                        "DateTime64(3, 'UTC')",
                    ],
                }

            # Table 5: Method similarity metrics (content-based fuzzy matching)
            if self.analysis_results.get("similarity_metrics"):
                export["method_similarity_metrics"] = {
                    "table": "code_apk_method_similarity_metrics",
                    "data": [
                        [
                            f["smali_method_hash"],
                            f.get("ssdeep_smali"),
                            f.get("tlsh_smali"),
                            f.get("ssdeep_smali_normalized"),
                            f.get("tlsh_smali_normalized"),
                            f.get("minhash", []),
                            now,
                        ]
                        for f in self.analysis_results["similarity_metrics"]
                    ],
                    "column_names": [
                        "smali_method_hash",
                        "ssdeep_smali",
                        "tlsh_smali",
                        "ssdeep_smali_normalized",
                        "tlsh_smali_normalized",
                        "minhash",
                        "analysis_date",
                    ],
                    "column_type_names": [
                        "FixedString(64)",
                        "Nullable(String)",
                        "Nullable(FixedString(72))",
                        "Nullable(String)",
                        "Nullable(FixedString(72))",
                        "Array(UInt8)",
                        "DateTime64(3, 'UTC')",
                    ],
                }

            # Table 5b: CFG method features (structural/topological)
            if self.analysis_results.get("cfg"):
                export["cfg_methods"] = {
                    "table": "code_apk_cfg_methods",
                    "data": [
                        [
                            cfg["smali_method_hash"],
                            cfg["cfg_topology_hash"],
                            cfg["block_count"],
                            cfg["edge_count"],
                            cfg.get("cfg_instructions_count", 0),
                            cfg.get("call_count", 0),
                            cfg["cyclomatic_complexity"],
                            cfg.get("loop_count", 0),
                            cfg.get("max_depth", 0),
                            cfg.get("max_fan_out", 0),
                            cfg.get("md_index_topdown", 0),
                            cfg.get("md_index_bottomup", 0),
                            cfg.get("prime_product_smali", 0),
                            cfg.get("cfg_feature_tlsh"),
                            cfg.get("wl_minhash", []),
                            cfg.get("bb_features", []),
                            cfg.get("cfg_adjacency", []),
                            now,
                        ]
                        for cfg in self.analysis_results["cfg"]
                        if cfg is not None
                    ],
                    "column_names": [
                        "smali_method_hash",
                        "cfg_topology_hash",
                        "block_count",
                        "edge_count",
                        "cfg_instructions_count",
                        "call_count",
                        "cyclomatic_complexity",
                        "loop_count",
                        "max_depth",
                        "max_fan_out",
                        "md_index_topdown",
                        "md_index_bottomup",
                        "prime_product_smali",
                        "cfg_feature_tlsh",
                        "wl_minhash",
                        "bb_features",
                        "cfg_adjacency",
                        "analysis_date",
                    ],
                    "column_type_names": [
                        "FixedString(64)",
                        "FixedString(16)",
                        "UInt16",
                        "UInt16",
                        "UInt32",
                        "UInt16",
                        "UInt16",
                        "UInt16",
                        "UInt16",
                        "UInt16",
                        "UInt64",
                        "UInt64",
                        "UInt64",
                        "Nullable(FixedString(72))",
                        "Array(UInt8)",
                        "Array(Array(UInt16))",
                        "Array(UInt32)",
                        "DateTime64(3, 'UTC')",
                    ],
                }

            # Table 6: Strings — reuse code_binja_strings_raw for cross-format correlation
            # DEX strings are MUTF-8; string_raw = string since no encoding difference
            if self.analysis_results.get("strings"):
                export["strings_raw"] = {
                    "table": "code_binja_strings_raw",
                    "data": [
                        [
                            self.analysis_results["sha256"],
                            s["string"],
                            s["string"],  # string_raw = string (MUTF-8 decoded to UTF-8)
                            s.get("string_encoding", "UTF8"),
                            s.get("string_offset", 0),
                            s.get("string_length", len(s["string"])),
                            s.get("string_length", len(s["string"])),  # string_raw_length = string_length
                            s.get("string_entropy", 0.0),
                        ]
                        for s in self.analysis_results["strings"]
                    ],
                    "column_names": [
                        "sha256",
                        "string",
                        "string_raw",
                        "string_encoding",
                        "string_offset",
                        "string_length",
                        "string_raw_length",
                        "string_entropy",
                    ],
                    "column_type_names": [
                        "FixedString(64)",
                        "String",
                        "String",
                        "LowCardinality(String)",
                        "UInt64",
                        "UInt32",
                        "UInt32",
                        "Float32",
                    ],
                }

            # Table 7: Analysis errors
            if self.analysis_results.get("analysis_errors"):
                export["analysis_errors"] = {
                    "table": "code_apk_analysis_errors",
                    "data": [
                        [
                            self.analysis_results["sha256"],
                            f.get("class_name"),
                            f.get("method_name"),
                            f.get("error_location", "unknown"),
                            f.get("error_message", ""),
                            f.get("error_type", "unknown"),
                            self.calculate_md5(
                                f"{f.get('error_message', '')}"
                                f"{f.get('class_name', '')}"
                                f"{f.get('method_name', '')}"
                                f"{f.get('error_location', 'unknown')}"
                            ),
                            "new",
                            now,
                        ]
                        for f in self.analysis_results["analysis_errors"]
                    ],
                    "column_names": [
                        "sha256",
                        "class_name",
                        "method_name",
                        "error_location",
                        "error_message",
                        "error_type",
                        "error_hash",
                        "status",
                        "analysis_date",
                    ],
                    "column_type_names": [
                        "FixedString(64)",
                        "Nullable(String)",
                        "Nullable(String)",
                        "LowCardinality(String)",
                        "Nullable(String)",
                        "Nullable(String)",
                        "FixedString(32)",
                        "Enum8('new'=1, 'investigating'=2, 'fixed'=3, 'wontfix'=4)",
                        "DateTime64(3, 'UTC')",
                    ],
                }

            return export

        return None

    def tag(self) -> str:
        """Return the tag for this extractor."""
        return Tag.APK_DECOMPILED.value

    def get_clickhouse_table(self) -> str:
        """Not used directly as we're handling multiple tables."""
        pass