Omar Amer

18 papers A 1B 2Misc 2Journal 10Unranked 2
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Omar Amer, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Kaushik Chakraborty, Shaltiel Eloul, Niraj Kumar, Charles Lim, Minzhao Liu, Pradeep Niroula, Yash Satsangi, Ruslan Shaydulin, Marco Pistoia
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Minzhao Liu, Ruslan Shaydulin, Pradeep Niroula, Matthew DeCross, Shih-Han Hung, Wen Yu Kon, Enrique Cervero Martín, Kaushik Chakraborty, Omar Amer, Scott Aaronson, Atithi Acharya, Yuri Alexeev, K. Jordan Berg, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Florian J. Curchod, Joan M. Dreiling, Neal Erickson, Cameron Foltz, Michael Foss-Feig, David Hayes, Travis S. Humble, Niraj Kumar, Jeffrey Larson, Danylo Lykov, Michael Mills, Steven A. Moses, Brian Neyenhuis, Shaltiel Eloul, Peter Siegfried, James Walker, Charles Lim, Marco Pistoia
2025 J jnl
Nat.
Minzhao Liu, Ruslan Shaydulin, Pradeep Niroula, Matthew DeCross, Shih-Han Hung, Wen Yu Kon, Enrique Cervero Martín, Kaushik Chakraborty, Omar Amer, Scott Aaronson, Atithi Acharya, Yuri Alexeev, K. Jordan Berg, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Florian J. Curchod, Joan M. Dreiling, Neal Erickson, Cameron Foltz, Michael Foss-Feig, David Hayes, Travis S. Humble, Niraj Kumar, Jeffrey Larson, Danylo Lykov, Michael Mills, Steven A. Moses, Brian Neyenhuis, Shaltiel Eloul, Peter Siegfried, James Walker, Charles Lim, Marco Pistoia
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Shaltiel Eloul, Yash Satsangi, Yeoh Wei Zhu, Omar Amer, Georgios Papadopoulos, Marco Pistoia
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Omar Amer, Kaushik Chakraborty, David Cui, Fatih Kaleoglu, Charles Lim, Minzhao Liu, Marco Pistoia
2024 J jnl
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Omar Amer, Kaushik Chakraborty, David Cui, Fatih Kaleoglu, Charles Lim, Minzhao Liu, Marco Pistoia
2024 A conf
ICDCS
Omar Amer, Walter O. Krawec, Md. Zakir Hossain, Victoria Manfredi, Bing Wang
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Kaiyan Shi, Kaushik Chakraborty, Wen Yu Kon, Omar Amer, Marco Pistoia, Charles Lim
2024 conf
OFC
Obada Alia, Albert Huang, Huan Luo, Omar Amer, Marco Pistoia, Charles Lim
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Changhao Li, Boning Li, Omar Amer, Ruslan Shaydulin, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Guoqing Wang, Haowei Xu, Hao Tang, Isidor Schoch, Niraj Kumar, Charles Lim, Ju Li, Paola Cappellaro, Marco Pistoia
2022 conf
GLOBECOM (Workshops)
Omar Amer, Vaibhav Garg, Walter O. Krawec
2022 B conf
ISIT
Omar Amer, Walter O. Krawec
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Farzam Toudeh-Fallah, Marco Pistoia, Yasushi Kawakura, Navid Moazzami, David H. Kramer, Robert I. Woodward, Greg Sysak, Benny John, Omar Amer, Antigoni Polychroniadou, Jeffrey Lyon, Suresh Shetty, Tulasi D. Movva, Sudhir Upadhyay, Monik Raj Behera, Joseph A. Dolphin, Paul Anthony Haigh, James F. Dynes, Andrew J. Shields
2021 Misc conf
QCE
Omar Amer, Kevin Freyberg, Vaibhav Garg, Walter O. Krawec
2020 Misc conf
QCE
Omar Amer, Walter O. Krawec, Bing Wang
2020 B conf
ISIT
Omar Amer, Walter O. Krawec
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Omar Amer, Walter O. Krawec
1997
Omar Amer
redb/extractors/decompiler/bninja/arch/x86.py
← Index redb/extractors/decompiler/bninja/arch/x86.py python
from binaryninja.enums import (
    InstructionTextTokenType,
)

# Support both package and standalone imports
try:
    from .architecture import Architecture
except ImportError:
    # Fallback to absolute imports (for multiprocessing spawned processes)
    from redb.extractors.decompiler.bninja.arch.architecture import Architecture


class Arch_x86(Architecture):
    """The concrete class for architecture-dependent details for x86_64"""

    def __init__(self):
        # general purpose registers for 64bits
        self.gpr_64 = [
            "RAX",
            "RBX",
            "RCX",
            "RDX",
            "RSI",
            "RDIR9",
            "R10",
            "R11",
            "R12",
            "R13",
            "R14",
            "R15",
        ]

        self.gpr_32 = [
            "EAX",
            "EBX",
            "ECX",
            "EDX",
            "ESI",
            "EDI",
            "R8D",
            "R9D",
            "R10D",
            "R11D",
            "R12D",
            "R13D",
            "R14D",
            "R15D",
        ]

        self.gpr_16 = [
            "AX",
            "BX",
            "CX",
            "DX",
            "SI",
            "DI",
            "R8W",
            "R9W",
            "R10W",
            "R11W",
            "R12W",
            "R13W",
            "R14W",
            "R15W",
        ]

        self.gpr_8 = [
            "AL",
            "BL",
            "CL",
            "DL",
            "SIL",
            "DIL",
            "R8B",
            "R9B",
            "R10B",
            "R11B",
            "R12B",
            "R13B",
            "R14B",
            "R15B",
        ]

        self.fpu_x87 = ["ST0", "ST1", "ST2", "ST3", "ST4", "ST5", "ST6", "ST7"]

        self.sse_xmm = [
            "XMM0",
            "XMM1",
            "XMM2",
            "XMM3",
            "XMM4",
            "XMM5",
            "XMM6",
            "XMM7",
            "XMM8",
            "XMM9",
            "XMM10",
            "XMM11",
            "XMM12",
            "XMM13",
            "XMM14",
            "XMM15",
        ]

        self.avx_ymm = [
            "YMM0",
            "YMM1",
            "YMM2",
            "YMM3",
            "YMM4",
            "YMM5",
            "YMM6",
            "YMM7",
            "YMM8",
            "YMM9",
            "YMM10",
            "YMM11",
            "YMM12",
            "YMM13",
            "YMM14",
            "YMM15",
        ]
        self.flags = ["FLAGS", "EFLAGS", "RFLAGS"]
        self.stack_registers = ["RBP", "RSP", "SP", "BP"]
        self.size = 8
        self.global_registers = (
            self.gpr_64
            + self.gpr_32
            + self.gpr_16
            + self.gpr_8
            + self.fpu_x87
            + self.sse_xmm
            + self.avx_ymm
        )
        self.opcode_categories = self._initialize_opcode_categories()

        ## instructions
        self.instructions = []

    def is_register(self, register):
        register = register.upper()
        return register in self.global_registers

    def is_general_purpose_register(self, register):
        register = register.upper()
        return (
            register in self.gpr_64
            or register in self.gpr_32
            or register in self.gpr_16
            or register in self.gpr_8
        )

    def is_stack_register(self, register):
        register = register.upper()
        return register in self.stack_registers

    def is_xmm_register(self, register):
        register = register.upper()
        return register in self.sse_xmm

    def is_control_flow(self, instr_tokens):
        return False

    def is_control_flow_instruction(self, instr_tokens):
        """Check if an instruction is a control flow instruction (jump, call, return, loop)."""
        try:
            # Extract the mnemonic from the instruction tokens
            mnemonic = None
            for token in instr_tokens:
                if token.type == InstructionTextTokenType.InstructionToken:
                    mnemonic = token.text.upper()
                    break

            if not mnemonic:
                return False

            # Check if it's a jump, call, return, or loop instruction
            return (
                mnemonic.startswith("J")  # All jumps (JMP, JE, JNE, etc.)
                or mnemonic == "CALL"  # Function calls
                or mnemonic == "RET"  # Return
                or mnemonic == "RETN"  # Another form of return
                or mnemonic.startswith("LOOP")
            )  # Loop instructions

        except Exception as e:
            print(e)
            # If we can't determine, assume it's not a control flow instruction
            return False

    def is_control_flow_instruction_by_mnemonic(self, mnemonic):
        """Check if an instruction is a control flow instruction based on its mnemonic."""
        if not mnemonic:
            return False

        mnemonic = mnemonic.upper()
        return (
            mnemonic.startswith("J")  # All jumps (JMP, JE, JNE, etc.)
            or mnemonic == "CALL"  # Function calls
            or mnemonic == "RET"  # Return
            or mnemonic == "RETN"  # Another form of return
            or mnemonic.startswith("LOOP")
        )

    def _initialize_opcode_categories(self):
        """Initialize mapping of opcodes to categories similar to Ghidra's implementation."""
        opcode_categories = {}
        opcode_index = {}  # Add this to mimic Ghidra's opcodeIndex

        # Define common opcodes array similar to Ghidra's COMMON_OPCODES
        COMMON_OPCODES = [
            # Core instructions (tracked individually)
            "MOV",
            "PUSH",
            "POP",
            "LEA",
            "CALL",
            "RET",  # Data movement and control
            "ADD",
            "SUB",
            "MUL",
            "DIV",  # Basic arithmetic
            "AND",
            "OR",
            "XOR",
            "NOT",  # Logical operations
            "JMP",
            "JE",
            "JNE",  # Basic jumps
            "TEST",
            "CMP",  # Comparisons
            # Grouped categories (aggregated tracking)
            "SIMD_MOVE",  # MOVAPS, MOVDQA, MOVDQU, etc.
            "COND_JUMP_EXT",  # Other conditional jumps (JG, JL, JGE, etc.)
            "STRING_OP",  # MOVS, STOS, LODS, SCAS, CMPS
            "STACK_ADV",  # ENTER, LEAVE, PUSHA, POPA
            "ARITHMETIC_ADV",  # IMUL, IDIV, ADC, SBB
            "BIT_OP",  # SHL, SHR, SAR, ROL, ROR, etc.
            "FPU_OP",  # FLD, FST, FADD, etc.
            "SYSTEM_OP",  # SYSCALL, INT, SYSENTER
            "CRYPTO_OP",  # AES*, SHA* instructions
            "MISC_OP",  # Rare but interesting (CPUID, RDTSC, etc.)
        ]

        # Create index map like Ghidra
        for i, opcode in enumerate(COMMON_OPCODES):
            opcode_index[opcode] = i

        # Now categorize opcodes using if/elif/else structure like in Ghidra
        for opcode in COMMON_OPCODES:
            # String Operations (checking these first to avoid MOV confusion)
            if opcode.startswith("MOVS") or opcode in [
                "STOS",
                "LODS",
                "SCAS",
                "CMPS",
                "REP",
                "REPE",
                "REPNE",
            ]:
                opcode_categories[opcode] = "STRING_MANIPULATION"

            # Data Movement (after string ops to avoid MOVS confusion)
            elif opcode.startswith("MOV") or opcode in ["LEA", "XCHG"]:
                opcode_categories[opcode] = "DATA_MOVEMENT"

            # Stack Operations
            elif opcode in ["PUSH", "POP", "ENTER", "LEAVE", "PUSHA", "POPA"]:
                opcode_categories[opcode] = "STACK_MANAGEMENT"

            # Control Flow (non-conditional)
            elif opcode in ["JMP", "CALL", "RET"]:
                opcode_categories[opcode] = "CONTROL_FLOW"

            # Conditional Jumps and Loops
            elif opcode.startswith("J") or opcode.startswith("LOOP"):
                opcode_categories[opcode] = "CONDITIONAL_JUMP"

            # Arithmetic
            elif opcode in [
                "ADD",
                "SUB",
                "MUL",
                "DIV",
                "IMUL",
                "IDIV",
                "ADC",
                "SBB",
                "INC",
                "DEC",
                "NEG",
            ]:
                opcode_categories[opcode] = "ARITHMETIC"

            # Logical
            elif opcode in ["AND", "OR", "XOR", "NOT", "TEST", "CMP"]:
                opcode_categories[opcode] = "LOGICAL"

            # Shifts & Rotates
            elif opcode in ["SHL", "SHR", "SAR", "SAL", "ROL", "ROR", "RCL", "RCR"]:
                opcode_categories[opcode] = "SHIFT_ROTATE"

            # System & Interrupts
            elif opcode in [
                "SYSCALL",
                "INT",
                "SYSENTER",
                "SYSEXIT",
                "SGDT",
                "SIDT",
                "SLDT",
                "WRMSR",
                "RDMSR",
            ]:
                opcode_categories[opcode] = "SYSTEM_CALLS"

            # Floating Point
            elif opcode.startswith("F"):
                opcode_categories[opcode] = "FPU_ARITHMETIC"

            # System Information and Random Number Generation
            elif opcode in ["PUSHF", "POPF", "CPUID", "RDTSC", "RDRAND", "RDSEED"]:
                opcode_categories[opcode] = "CPU_FEATURES"

            # Cryptography
            elif opcode.startswith("AES") or opcode.startswith("SHA"):
                opcode_categories[opcode] = "CRYPTOGRAPHIC"

            # Miscellaneous (including flag operations)
            else:
                opcode_categories[opcode] = "MISC"

        # Additional categorization for opcodes not in COMMON_OPCODES
        # This can be used in the normalize_opcode method

        # Store both maps as instance variables
        # self.opcode_categories = opcode_categories
        self.opcode_index = opcode_index

        return opcode_categories

    def is_simd_register(self, register):
        return register in self.sse_xmm