Narayanan Kasthuri

29 papers A* 1B 1C 1Journal 22Unranked 4
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2022 C conf
ACC
Anish A. Sarma, Jing Shuang Lisa Li, Josefin Stenberg, Gwyneth Card, Elizabeth S. Heckscher, Narayanan Kasthuri, Terrence J. Sejnowski, John C. Doyle
2021 conf
MICCAI (1)
Donglai Wei, Kisuk Lee, Hanyu Li, Ran Lu, J. Alexander Bae, Zequan Liu, Lifu Zhang, Márcia dos Santos, Zudi Lin, Thomas D. Uram, Xueying Wang, Ignacio Arganda-Carreras, Brian Matejek, Narayanan Kasthuri, Jeff Lichtman, Hanspeter Pfister
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Donglai Wei, Kisuk Lee, Hanyu Li, Ran Lu, J. Alexander Bae, Zequan Liu, Lifu Zhang, Márcia dos Santos, Zudi Lin, Thomas D. Uram, Xueying Wang, Ignacio Arganda-Carreras, Brian Matejek, Narayanan Kasthuri, Jeff Lichtman, Hanspeter Pfister
2021 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Computational Imaging
Viktor V. Nikitin, Vincent De Andrade, Azat Slyamov, Benjamin J. Gould, Yuepeng Zhang, Vandana Sampathkumar, Narayanan Kasthuri, Doga Gürsoy, Francesco De Carlo
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Josefin Stenberg, Jing Shuang Li, Anish A. Sarma, Terrence J. Sejnowski, Gwyneth Card, Elizabeth S. Heckscher, Narayanan Kasthuri, John C. Doyle
2021 J jnl
NeuroImage
Sean Foxley, Vandana Sampathkumar, Vincent De Andrade, Scott Trinkle, Anastasia Sorokina, Katrina Norwood, Patrick La Riviere, Narayanan Kasthuri
2021 J jnl
NeuroImage
Scott Trinkle, Sean Foxley, Gregg A. Wildenberg, Narayanan Kasthuri, Patrick La Riviere
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Viktor V. Nikitin, Vincent De Andrade, Azat Slyamov, Benjamin J. Gould, Yuepeng Zhang, Vandana Sampathkumar, Narayanan Kasthuri, Doga Gürsoy, Francesco De Carlo
2020 conf
XLOOP@SC
Rafael Vescovi, Hanyu Li, Jeffery Kinnison, Murat Keçeli, Misha Salim, Narayanan Kasthuri, Thomas D. Uram, Nicola J. Ferrier
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Rafael Vescovi, Hanyu Li, Jeffery Kinnison, Murat Keçeli, Misha Salim, Narayanan Kasthuri, Thomas D. Uram, Nicola J. Ferrier
2019 conf
DLS@SC
Wushi Dong, Nicola J. Ferrier, Narayanan Kasthuri, Peter Littlewood, Murat Keçeli, Rafael Vescovi, Hanyu Li, Corey Adams, Elise Jennings, Samuel Flender, Thomas D. Uram, Venkatram Vishwanath
2018 conf
AI-Science@HPDC
Ryan Chard, Rafael Vescovi, Ming Du, Hanyu Li, Kyle Chard, Steven Tuecke, Narayanan Kasthuri, Ian T. Foster
2018 J jnl
Computer
Kristofer E. Bouchard, James B. Aimone, Miyoung Chun, Thomas Dean, Michael Denker, Markus Diesmann, David Donofrio, Loren M. Frank, Narayanan Kasthuri, Christof Koch, Oliver Rübel, Horst D. Simon, Friedrich T. Sommer, Prabhat
2016 J jnl
CoRR
William R. Gray Roncal, Eva L. Dyer, Doga Gürsoy, Konrad P. Körding, Narayanan Kasthuri
2016 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph.
Ali K. Al-Awami, Johanna Beyer, Daniel Haehn, Narayanan Kasthuri, Jeff W. Lichtman, Hanspeter Pfister, Markus Hadwiger
2016 J jnl
CoRR
Eva L. Dyer, William R. Gray Roncal, Hugo L. Fernandes, Doga Gürsoy, Xianghui Xiao, Joshua T. Vogelstein, Chris Jacobsen, Konrad P. Körding, Narayanan Kasthuri
2016 J jnl
CoRR
Seymour Knowles-Barley, Verena Kaynig, Thouis Ray Jones, Alyssa Wilson, Joshua Morgan, Dongil Lee, Daniel R. Berger, Narayanan Kasthuri, Jeff W. Lichtman, Hanspeter Pfister
2015 J jnl
Medical Image Anal.
Verena Kaynig, Amelio Vázquez Reina, Seymour Knowles-Barley, Mike Roberts, Thouis R. Jones, Narayanan Kasthuri, Eric L. Miller, Jeff Lichtman, Hanspeter Pfister
2014 J jnl
CoRR
Ayushi Sinha, William R. Gray Roncal, Narayanan Kasthuri, Jeff W. Lichtman, Randal C. Burns, Michael M. Kazhdan
2014 J jnl
CoRR
Ayushi Sinha, William R. Gray Roncal, Narayanan Kasthuri, Ming Chuang, Priya Manavalan, Dean Kleissas, Joshua T. Vogelstein, R. Jacob Vogelstein, Randal C. Burns, Jeff W. Lichtman, Michael M. Kazhdan
2014 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph.
Daniel Haehn, Seymour Knowles-Barley, Mike Roberts, Johanna Beyer, Narayanan Kasthuri, Jeff W. Lichtman, Hanspeter Pfister
2014 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph.
Ali K. Al-Awami, Johanna Beyer, Hendrik Strobelt, Narayanan Kasthuri, Jeff W. Lichtman, Hanspeter Pfister, Markus Hadwiger
2014 J jnl
CoRR
William R. Gray Roncal, Verena Kaynig-Fittkau, Narayanan Kasthuri, Daniel R. Berger, Joshua T. Vogelstein, Lindsey R. Fernandez, Jeff W. Lichtman, R. Jacob Vogelstein, Hanspeter Pfister, Gregory D. Hager
2013 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph.
Johanna Beyer, Ali K. Al-Awami, Narayanan Kasthuri, Jeff W. Lichtman, Hanspeter Pfister, Markus Hadwiger
2013 J jnl
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Johanna Beyer, Markus Hadwiger, Ali K. Al-Awami, Won-Ki Jeong, Narayanan Kasthuri, Jeff W. Lichtman, Hanspeter Pfister
2013 J jnl
CoRR
Verena Kaynig, Amelio Vázquez Reina, Seymour Knowles-Barley, Mike Roberts, Thouis R. Jones, Narayanan Kasthuri, Eric L. Miller, Jeff Lichtman, Hanspeter Pfister
2013 J jnl
CoRR
Randal C. Burns, William R. Gray Roncal, Dean Kleissas, Kunal Lillaney, Priya Manavalan, Eric A. Perlman, Daniel R. Berger, Davi Bock, Kwanghun Chung, Logan Grosenick, Narayanan Kasthuri, Nicholas C. Weiler, Karl Deisseroth, Michael M. Kazhdan, Jeff Lichtman, R. Clay Reid, Stephen J. Smith, Alexander S. Szalay, Joshua T. Vogelstein, R. Jacob Vogelstein
2013 B conf
SSDBM
Randal C. Burns, Kunal Lillaney, Daniel R. Berger, Logan Grosenick, Karl Deisseroth, R. Clay Reid, William R. Gray Roncal, Priya Manavalan, Davi Bock, Narayanan Kasthuri, Michael M. Kazhdan, Stephen J. Smith, Dean Kleissas, Eric A. Perlman, Kwanghun Chung, Nicholas C. Weiler, Jeff Lichtman, Alexander S. Szalay, Joshua T. Vogelstein, R. Jacob Vogelstein
2010 A* conf
CVPR
Viren Jain, Benjamin Bollmann, Mark Richardson, Daniel R. Berger, Moritz Helmstaedter, Kevin L. Briggman, Winfried Denk, Jared B. Bowden, John M. Mendenhall, Wickliffe C. Abraham, Kristen M. Harris, Narayanan Kasthuri, Ken J. Hayworth, Richard Schalek, Juan Carlos Tapia, Jeff W. Lichtman, H. Sebastian Seung
redb/extractors/apk_extractors/apk_resources.py
← Index redb/extractors/apk_extractors/apk_resources.py python
import hashlib
import inspect
import os
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from typing import Any

from redb.extractors.enum import Tag
from redb.extractors.apk_extractor import APKExtractor
from redb.models.dataclasses import APKResource


# ─── Suspicious file types ──────────────────────────────────────────────
# File types that are suspicious when found inside res/ or assets/.
# Excludes javascript/html (extremely common in legitimate hybrid apps)
# and common media/font types that are normal APK content.
SUSPICIOUS_TYPES = {
    # Executables — no legitimate reason in assets/res
    "elf", "pebin", "macho", "dex", "apk",
    # Java containers — DexClassLoader target
    "jar",
    # Archives — rare in legitimate assets (~135:1 malware-to-benign ratio)
    "zip", "gzip", "7z", "xz", "tar", "bzip2", "rar", "7zip", "lzma",
    # Scripts with system execution capability
    "shell", "python", "powershell", "batch",
}

# ─── Entropy thresholds ─────────────────────────────────────────────────
# For unrecognized/unknown types: encrypted payloads typically land > 7.0
ENTROPY_HIGH_UNKNOWN = 7.0
# For recognized-but-non-image types: stricter threshold
ENTROPY_EXTREME = 7.85

# ─── Android-specific binary format magic bytes ─────────────────────────
# These formats are common in legitimate APKs but unknown to Magika,
# causing misclassification (e.g., AXML → "gzip", profm → "unknown").
AXML_MAGIC = b'\x03\x00\x08\x00'       # Android Binary XML (compiled res/*.xml)
ARSC_MAGIC = b'\x02\x00\x0c\x00'       # Android compiled resource table
ART_PROF_MAGIC = b'pro\x00'            # ART baseline profile
ART_PROFM_MAGIC = b'prm\x00'           # ART baseline profile metadata

# ─── Allowlisted paths ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
# Fixed, hardcoded paths in the Android build system that are always benign.
# ART profiles at these exact paths are shipped by Jetpack ProfileInstaller.
ALLOWLISTED_PATHS = {
    "assets/dexopt/baseline.prof",
    "assets/dexopt/baseline.profm",
}

# ─── Image handling ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# Magika-confirmed image types: high entropy is expected (lossy codecs
# like VP8/JPEG arithmetic-code toward entropy ~7.95-8.0 by design).
IMAGE_MAGIKA_TYPES = {"png", "webp", "jpeg", "gif", "bmp", "tiff", "ico"}
IMAGE_EXTENSIONS = {".png", ".webp", ".jpg", ".jpeg", ".gif", ".bmp", ".tiff", ".ico"}

# ─── Types Magika assigns when it can't identify the content ────────────
UNRECOGNIZED_MAGIKA_TYPES = {"unknown", "empty"}

# ─── Resource scan limits ───────────────────────────────────────────────
MAX_RESOURCE_FILES = 5000


class APKResourceExtractor(APKExtractor):

    def __init__(
        self, filepath, log, exporters=None, index_prefix=None,
        known_benign=False, known_malicious=False,
        apk=None,
    ):
        super().__init__(
            filepath, log, exporters, index_prefix,
            known_benign, known_malicious, apk,
        )
        self.resources = []
        self.suspicious_files = []
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

    def tag(self):
        return Tag.APK_RESOURCES.value

    # ─── Core classification logic ──────────────────────────────────────

    def _identify_android_format(self, header: bytes) -> str | None:
        """
        Identify Android-specific binary formats that Magika doesn't know.
        Returns a corrected type label, or None to fall through to Magika.
        """
        if len(header) < 4:
            return None

        magic4 = header[:4]

        # Android Binary XML — all res/*.xml in a compiled APK.
        # Magika often misclassifies this as "gzip".
        if magic4 == AXML_MAGIC:
            return "android_binary_xml"

        # Android compiled resource table (resources.arsc chunks)
        if magic4 == ARSC_MAGIC:
            return "android_resource_table"

        # ART baseline profiles — high entropy (zlib inside) but benign.
        # The format is inert (method reference bitmaps/metadata, not
        # executable code) and some build configs place them at varying paths.
        if magic4 == ART_PROF_MAGIC:
            return "android_art_profile"
        if magic4 == ART_PROFM_MAGIC:
            return "android_art_profile_metadata"

        return None

    def _is_suspicious_resource(
        self, path: str, magika_type: str, entropy: float,
        android_type: str | None,
    ) -> bool:
        """
        Determine if a resource file is suspicious.

        Detection layers:
        1. Allowlisted paths → always benign
        2. Android-specific format override → reclassify Magika mislabels
        3. Image extension vs Magika type mismatch → encrypted blob detection
        4. Magika-confirmed images → benign regardless of entropy
        5. Suspicious type match → flag known-dangerous types
        6. High-entropy unknown blobs → likely encrypted payloads
        """

        # ── Layer 1: Allowlisted paths (hardcoded Android build artifacts) ──
        if path in ALLOWLISTED_PATHS:
            return False

        # ── Layer 2: Android-specific format detection ──────────────────────
        # Override Magika's label for formats it doesn't recognize.
        # All Android-specific formats (AXML, ARSC, ART profiles) are
        # legitimate build artifacts — never suspicious.
        if android_type is not None:
            return False

        # ── Layer 3: Image extension / Magika type mismatch ─────────────────
        # If the file extension claims "image" but Magika's content analysis
        # disagrees, this is a strong signal for an encrypted payload with
        # a fake image extension (e.g., ErrorFather's "rbyypivsnw.png").
        ext = os.path.splitext(path)[1].lower()
        if ext in IMAGE_EXTENSIONS and magika_type not in IMAGE_MAGIKA_TYPES:
            # Exception: Magika might label a valid image as "unknown" if
            # the file is very small (< ~16 bytes). Don't flag tiny files.
            if entropy > 5.0:
                return True

        # ── Layer 4: Magika-confirmed images → benign ───────────────────────
        # Lossy codecs (VP8, JPEG) produce entropy up to ~8.0 by design.
        # If Magika confirms image structure, high entropy is expected.
        if magika_type in IMAGE_MAGIKA_TYPES:
            return False

        # ── Layer 5: Known suspicious file types ────────────────────────────
        if magika_type in SUSPICIOUS_TYPES:
            return True

        # ── Layer 6: High-entropy unrecognized blobs ────────────────────────
        # Files Magika can't identify with high entropy are likely encrypted
        # payloads. Most Android malware packers store encrypted DEX/SO
        # payloads as opaque blobs with random names and no valid magic.
        if magika_type in UNRECOGNIZED_MAGIKA_TYPES and entropy > ENTROPY_HIGH_UNKNOWN:
            return True

        # ── Layer 7: Extreme entropy on any non-image recognized type ───────
        # Catches edge cases where Magika assigns a benign label (e.g.,
        # "xml", "txt") but the entropy is impossibly high for that format.
        if magika_type not in IMAGE_MAGIKA_TYPES and entropy > ENTROPY_EXTREME:
            return True

        return False

    # ─── Extraction pipeline ────────────────────────────────────────────

    def extract(self):
        if not self._is_valid_apk():
            self.log.error(f"Invalid APK for {self.hash.sha256}")
            return None

        try:
            from magika import Magika
            magika = Magika()
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Failed to initialize Magika for {self.hash.sha256}: {e}")
            magika = None

        self.resources = []
        self.suspicious_files = []
        scanned = 0

        zf = self._get_zip_file()
        if not zf:
            return None

        with zf:
            for info in zf.infolist():
                if info.is_dir():
                    continue
                if not (info.filename.startswith("res/") or
                        info.filename.startswith("assets/")):
                    continue

                if scanned >= MAX_RESOURCE_FILES:
                    self.log.warning(
                        f"Resource scan limit reached ({MAX_RESOURCE_FILES}), "
                        f"stopping resource enumeration"
                    )
                    break
                scanned += 1

                try:
                    data = zf.read(info.filename)
                except Exception as e:
                    self.log.warning(
                        f"Error reading resource {info.filename}: {e}"
                    )
                    continue

                try:
                    file_sha256 = hashlib.sha256(data).hexdigest()
                    file_entropy = round(self.calculate_entropy(data), 3)

                    # Read first bytes for Android-specific format detection
                    header = data[:16] if len(data) >= 16 else data

                    if magika:
                        try:
                            filetype = magika.identify_bytes(data).output.label
                        except Exception:
                            filetype = "unknown"
                    else:
                        filetype = "unknown"

                    # Identify Android-specific formats once, reuse for
                    # both stored type and suspicion classification
                    android_type = self._identify_android_format(header)
                    stored_type = android_type if android_type else filetype

                    suspicious = self._is_suspicious_resource(
                        path=info.filename,
                        magika_type=filetype,
                        entropy=file_entropy,
                        android_type=android_type,
                    )

                    resource = APKResource(
                        path=info.filename,
                        size=info.file_size,
                        sha256=file_sha256,
                        filetype_magika=stored_type,
                        entropy=file_entropy,
                    )

                    if suspicious:
                        resource.is_suspicious = True
                        self.suspicious_files.append(resource)

                    self.resources.append(resource)
                except Exception as e:
                    self.log.warning(
                        f"Error processing resource {info.filename}: {e}"
                    )
                    continue

        if not self.resources:
            return None

        return {
            "total_resource_count": len(self.resources),
            "total_resource_size": sum(r.size for r in self.resources),
            "suspicious_file_count": len(self.suspicious_files),
            "resources": self.resources,
            "suspicious_files": self.suspicious_files,
        }

    # ─── Export ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

    def prepare_export_data(self, exporter_type: str) -> Any:
        if exporter_type == "ClickHouseExporter":
            if not self.resources:
                return None

            current_time = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
            data = []
            for res in self.resources:
                data.append([
                    self.sha256,
                    res.path,
                    res.size,
                    res.sha256,
                    res.filetype_magika,
                    res.entropy,
                    int(res.is_suspicious),
                    current_time,
                ])

            column_names = [
                'sha256', 'resource_path', 'resource_size',
                'resource_sha256', 'resource_magika', 'resource_entropy',
                'is_suspicious', 'analysis_date',
            ]

            column_type_names = [
                'FixedString(64)', 'String', 'UInt64',
                'FixedString(64)', 'LowCardinality(String)', 'Float32',
                'UInt8', "DateTime64(3, 'UTC')",
            ]

            return (data, column_names, column_type_names)

    def get_clickhouse_table(self) -> str:
        return "redb_apk_resources"