Ramachandran Ramjee

117 papers A* 30A 7B 6Misc 12Journal 47Unranked 14
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Raja Gond, Aditya K. Kamath, Ramachandran Ramjee, Ashish Panwar
2026 conf
ASPLOS (2)
Kanishk Goel, Jayashree Mohan, Nipun Kwatra, Ravi Shreyas Anupindi, Ramachandran Ramjee
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Anish Biswas, Kanishk Goel, Jayashree Mohan, Alind Khare, Anjaly Parayil, Ramachandran Ramjee, Chetan Bansal
2025 J jnl
ACM SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev.
Arney Agrawal, Nitin Kedia, Ashish Panwar, Jayashree Mohan, Nipun Kwatra, Bhargav S. Gulavani, Alexey Tumanov, Ramachandran Ramjee
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Dhruv Deshmukh, Saurabh Goyal, Nipun Kwatra, Ramachandran Ramjee
2025 conf
SoCC
Haoran Qiu, Anish Biswas, Zihan Zhao, Jayashree Mohan, Alind Khare, Esha Choukse, Íñigo Goiri, Zeyu Zhang, Haiying Shen, Chetan Bansal, Ramachandran Ramjee, Rodrigo Fonseca
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Kanishk Goel, Jayashree Mohan, Nipun Kwatra, Ravi Shreyas Anupindi, Ramachandran Ramjee
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Amey Agrawal, Nitin Kedia, Anmol Agarwal, Jayashree Mohan, Nipun Kwatra, Souvik Kundu, Ramachandran Ramjee, Alexey Tumanov
2025 conf
ASPLOS (2)
Aditya K. Kamath, Ramya Prabhu, Jayashree Mohan, Simon Peter, Ramachandran Ramjee, Ashish Panwar
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Raja Gond, Nipun Kwatra, Ramachandran Ramjee
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Haoran Qiu, Anish Biswas, Zihan Zhao, Jayashree Mohan, Alind Khare, Esha Choukse, Íñigo Goiri, Zeyu Zhang, Haiying Shen, Chetan Bansal, Ramachandran Ramjee, Rodrigo Fonseca
2025 conf
ASPLOS (1)
Ramya Prabhu, Ajay Nayak, Jayashree Mohan, Ramachandran Ramjee, Ashish Panwar
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Sonu Mehta, Jayashree Mohan, Nagarajan Natarajan, Ramachandran Ramjee, Manik Varma
2024 A* conf
NeurIPS
Abhinav Dutta, Sanjeev Krishnan, Nipun Kwatra, Ramachandran Ramjee
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Abhinav Dutta, Sanjeev Krishnan, Nipun Kwatra, Ramachandran Ramjee
2024 A* conf
ICLR
Anirudh Buvanesh, Rahul Chand, Jatin Prakash, Bhawna Paliwal, Mudit Dhawan, Neelabh Madan, Deepesh Hada, Vidit Jain, Sonu Mehta, Yashoteja Prabhu, Manish Gupta, Ramachandran Ramjee, Manik Varma
2024 A conf
EuroSys
Tanmaey Gupta, Sanjeev Krishnan, Rituraj Kumar, Abhishek Vijeev, Bhargav S. Gulavani, Nipun Kwatra, Ramachandran Ramjee, Muthian Sivathanu
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Amey Agrawal, Anmol Agarwal, Nitin Kedia, Jayashree Mohan, Souvik Kundu, Nipun Kwatra, Ramachandran Ramjee, Alexey Tumanov
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Amey Agrawal, Junda Chen, Íñigo Goiri, Ramachandran Ramjee, Chaojie Zhang, Alexey Tumanov, Esha Choukse
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Aditya K. Kamath, Ramya Prabhu, Jayashree Mohan, Simon Peter, Ramachandran Ramjee, Ashish Panwar
2024 A* conf
OSDI
Amey Agrawal, Nitin Kedia, Ashish Panwar, Jayashree Mohan, Nipun Kwatra, Bhargav S. Gulavani, Alexey Tumanov, Ramachandran Ramjee
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Amey Agrawal, Nitin Kedia, Ashish Panwar, Jayashree Mohan, Nipun Kwatra, Bhargav S. Gulavani, Alexey Tumanov, Ramachandran Ramjee
2024 conf
MLSys
Amey Agrawal, Nitin Kedia, Jayashree Mohan, Ashish Panwar, Nipun Kwatra, Bhargav S. Gulavani, Ramachandran Ramjee, Alexey Tumanov
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Amey Agrawal, Nitin Kedia, Jayashree Mohan, Ashish Panwar, Nipun Kwatra, Bhargav S. Gulavani, Ramachandran Ramjee, Alexey Tumanov
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Ramya Prabhu, Ajay Nayak, Jayashree Mohan, Ramachandran Ramjee, Ashish Panwar
2023 A conf
WSDM
Kunal Dahiya, Nilesh Gupta, Deepak Saini, Akshay Soni, Yajun Wang, Kushal Dave, Jian Jiao, Gururaj K, Prasenjit Dey, Amit Singh, Deepesh Hada, Vidit Jain, Bhawna Paliwal, Anshul Mittal, Sonu Mehta, Ramachandran Ramjee, Sumeet Agarwal, Purushottam Kar, Manik Varma
2023 conf
MLSys
Vidit Jain, Jatin Prakash, Deepak Saini, Jian Jiao, Ramachandran Ramjee, Manik Varma
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Amey Agrawal, Ashish Panwar, Jayashree Mohan, Nipun Kwatra, Bhargav S. Gulavani, Ramachandran Ramjee
2023 J jnl
J. Mach. Learn. Res.
Nikhil Iyer, V. Thejas, Nipun Kwatra, Ramachandran Ramjee, Muthian Sivathanu
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Kunal Dahiya, Nilesh Gupta, Deepak Saini, Akshay Soni, Yajun Wang, Kushal Dave, Jian Jiao, Gururaj K, Prasenjit Dey, Amit Singh, Deepesh Hada, Vidit Jain, Bhawna Paliwal, Anshul Mittal, Sonu Mehta, Ramachandran Ramjee, Sumeet Agarwal, Purushottam Kar, Manik Varma
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Dharma Shukla, Muthian Sivathanu, Srinidhi Viswanatha, Bhargav S. Gulavani, Rimma Nehme, Amey Agrawal, Chen Chen, Nipun Kwatra, Ramachandran Ramjee, Pankaj Sharma, Atul Katiyar, Vipul Modi, Vaibhav Sharma, Abhishek Singh, Shreshth Singhal, Kaustubh Welankar, Lu Xun, Ravi Anupindi, Karthik Elangovan, Hasibur Rahman, Zhou Lin, Rahul Seetharaman, Cheng Xu, Eddie Ailijiang, Suresh Krishnappa, Mark Russinovich
2022 A conf
EuroSys
Sanjith Athlur, Nitika Saran, Muthian Sivathanu, Ramachandran Ramjee, Nipun Kwatra
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Nikhil Iyer, V. Thejas, Nipun Kwatra, Ramachandran Ramjee, Muthian Sivathanu
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Sanjith Athlur, Nitika Saran, Muthian Sivathanu, Ramachandran Ramjee, Nipun Kwatra
2020 A conf
EuroSys
Shubham Chaudhary, Ramachandran Ramjee, Muthian Sivathanu, Nipun Kwatra, Srinidhi Viswanatha
2020 A* conf
ICLR
Divam Gupta, Ramachandran Ramjee, Nipun Kwatra, Muthian Sivathanu
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Nikhil Iyer, V. Thejas, Nipun Kwatra, Ramachandran Ramjee, Muthian Sivathanu
2018 J jnl
ACM Trans. Sens. Networks
Romil Bhardwaj, Gopi Krishna Tummala, Ganesan Ramalingam, Ramachandran Ramjee, Prasun Sinha
2018 A* conf
OSDI
Wencong Xiao, Romil Bhardwaj, Ramachandran Ramjee, Muthian Sivathanu, Nipun Kwatra, Zhenhua Han, Pratyush Patel, Xuan Peng, Hanyu Zhao, Quanlu Zhang, Fan Yang, Lidong Zhou
2018 J jnl
CoRR
Shruti Tople, Karan Grover, Shweta Shinde, Ranjita Bhagwan, Ramachandran Ramjee
2018 Misc conf
COMSNETS
Varun Jain, Mansi Goel, Mukulika Maity, Vinayak Naik, Ramachandran Ramjee
2017 conf
BuildSys
Romil Bhardwaj, Gopi Krishna Tummala, Ganesan Ramalingam, Ramachandran Ramjee, Prasun Sinha
2017 conf
BuildSys
Romil Bhardwaj, Gopi Krishna Tummala, Ganesan Ramalingam, Ramachandran Ramjee, Prasun Sinha
2017 Misc conf
HotMobile
Uma Parthavi Moravapalle, Amit Deshpande, Ashish Kapoor, Ramachandran Ramjee, Priya Ravi
2017 Misc conf
NSDI
Romil Bhardwaj, Krishna Chintalapudi, Ramachandran Ramjee
2016 J jnl
GetMobile Mob. Comput. Commun.
Ramachandran Ramjee, Sumit Roy, Krishna Chintalapudi
2016 A* conf
OSDI
Antonis Papadimitriou, Ranjita Bhagwan, Nishanth Chandran, Ramachandran Ramjee, Andreas Haeberlen, Harmeet Singh, Abhishek Modi, Saikrishna Badrinarayanan
2016 B conf
MobiHoc
Apurv Bhartia, Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Krishna Chintalapudi, Lili Qiu, Bozidar Radunovic, Ramachandran Ramjee
2016 J jnl
CoRR
Daniel M. Batista, Gordon S. Blair, Fabio Kon, Raouf Boutaba, David Hutchison, Raj Jain, Ramachandran Ramjee, Christian Esteve Rothenberg
2015 J jnl
J. Internet Serv. Appl.
Daniel M. Batista, Gordon S. Blair, Fabio Kon, Raouf Boutaba, David Hutchison, Raj Jain, Ramachandran Ramjee, Christian Esteve Rothenberg
2014 Misc conf
NSDI
Ranjita Bhagwan, Rahul Kumar, Ramachandran Ramjee, George Varghese, Surjyakanta Mohapatra, Hemanth Manoharan, Piyush Shah
2014 Misc conf
COMSNETS
Abhijnan Chakraborty, Vishnu Navda, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Ramachandran Ramjee
2014 Misc conf
COMSNETS
Neelesh B. Mehta, Ramachandran Ramjee, Sanjay Shakkottai
2013 A* conf
MobiCom
Abhijnan Chakraborty, Vishnu Navda, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Ramachandran Ramjee
2013 conf
CellNet@MobiSys
Sahil Suneja, Vishnu Navda, Ramachandran Ramjee, Eyal de Lara
2013 conf
USENIX ATC
Anshul Rai, Ramachandran Ramjee, Ashok Anand, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, George Varghese
2012 A* conf
MobiCom
Pavan K. Athivarapu, Ranjita Bhagwan, Saikat Guha, Vishnu Navda, Ramachandran Ramjee, Dushyant Arora, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, George Varghese
2012 Misc conf
NSDI
Krishna Chintalapudi, Bozidar Radunovic, Horia Vlad Balan, Michael Buettener, Srinivas Yerramalli, Vishnu Navda, Ramachandran Ramjee
2011 ed.
CoRoNet@MOBICOM
Danijela Cabric, Ramachandran Ramjee
2011 Misc conf
NSDI
Krishna Chintalapudi, Vishnu Navda, Ramachandran Ramjee, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Chandra R. Murthy
2011 A* conf
MobiCom
Eugenio Magistretti, Krishna Kant Chintalapudi, Bozidar Radunovic, Ramachandran Ramjee
2010 Misc conf
COMSNETS
Pranav Agrawal, Anurag Kumar, Joy Kuri, Manoj Kumar Panda, Vishnu Navda, Ramachandran Ramjee, Venkata N. Padmanabhan
2010 A* conf
MobiCom
Aaron Schulman, Vishnu Navda, Ramachandran Ramjee, Neil Spring, Pralhad Deshpande, Calvin Grunewald, Kamal Jain, Venkata N. Padmanabhan
2010 Misc conf
NSDI
Bhavish Agarwal, Aditya Akella, Ashok Anand, Athula Balachandran, Pushkar V. Chitnis, Chitra Muthukrishnan, Ramachandran Ramjee, George Varghese
2010 conf
USENIX ATC
Tathagata Das, Pradeep Padala, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Ramachandran Ramjee, Kang G. Shin
2010 A conf
MobiSys
Eric Rozner, Vishnu Navda, Ramachandran Ramjee, Shravan K. Rayanchu
2010 A conf
MobiSys
Tathagata Das, Prashanth Mohan, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Ramachandran Ramjee, Asankhaya Sharma
2010 A* conf
SIGCOMM
Bhavish Agarwal, Pushkar V. Chitnis, Amit Dey, Kamal Jain, Vishnu Navda, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Ramachandran Ramjee, Aaron Schulman, Neil Spring
2009 J jnl
CoRR
Pranav Agrawal, Anurag Kumar, Joy Kuri, Manoj K. Panda, Vishnu Navda, Ramachandran Ramjee
2009 A conf
CoNEXT
Ashish Sharma, Vishnu Navda, Ramachandran Ramjee, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Elizabeth M. Belding
2009 B conf
ICNP
Ranveer Chandra, Sandeep Karanth, Thomas Moscibroda, Vishnu Navda, Jitendra Padhye, Ramachandran Ramjee, Lenin Ravindranath
2009 conf
SIGMETRICS/Performance
Ashok Anand, Chitra Muthukrishnan, Aditya Akella, Ramachandran Ramjee
2009 A* conf
INFOCOM
Li (Erran) Li, Richard Alimi, Ramachandran Ramjee, Harish Viswanathan, Yang Richard Yang
2008 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput.
Mun Choon Chan, Ramachandran Ramjee
2008 Misc conf
SenSys
Prashanth Mohan, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Ramachandran Ramjee
2008 Misc conf
SenSys
Prashanth Mohan, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Ramachandran Ramjee
2008 A* conf
INFOCOM
Richard Alimi, Li (Erran) Li, Ramachandran Ramjee, Harish Viswanathan, Yang Richard Yang
2007 A* conf
INFOCOM
Li (Erran) Li, Ramachandran Ramjee, Milind M. Buddhikot, Scott C. Miller
2007 A* conf
MobiCom
Li (Erran) Li, Richard Alimi, Ramachandran Ramjee, Jingpu Shi, Yanjun Sun, Harish Viswanathan, Yang Richard Yang
2007 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput.
Haiyun Luo, Xiaoqiao Meng, Ramachandran Ramjee, Prasun Sinha, Li (Erran) Li
2006 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput.
Tian Bu, Mun Choon Chan, Ramachandran Ramjee
2006 A* conf
INFOCOM
Tian Bu, L. Li, Ramachandran Ramjee
2006 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput.
Randeep Bhatia, Li (Erran) Li, Haiyun Luo, Ramachandran Ramjee
2006 A* ed.
MobiCom
Mario Gerla, Chiara Petrioli, Ramachandran Ramjee
2006 conf
COMSWARE
Ramachandran Ramjee, Furquan Ansari, Martin Havemann, T. V. Lakshman, Thyagarajan Nandagopal, Krishan K. Sabnani, Thomas Y. C. Woo
2005 J jnl
IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun.
Xin Wang, Ramachandran Ramjee, Harish Viswanathan
2005 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput.
Sneha Kumar Kasera, Ramachandran Ramjee, Sandra R. Thuel, Xin Wang
2005 A* conf
INFOCOM
Tian Bu, Mun Choon Chan, Ramachandran Ramjee
2005 A* conf
INFOCOM
Arunchandar Vasan, Ramachandran Ramjee, Thomas Y. C. Woo
2005 B conf
ICCCN
Prasun Sinha, Yuval Shavitt, Ramachandran Ramjee, Danny Raz, Sneha Kumar Kasera
2005 J jnl
Wirel. Networks
Mun Choon Chan, Ramachandran Ramjee
2004 A* conf
INFOCOM
Xin Wang, Ramachandran Ramjee, Harish Viswanathan
2004 A* conf
INFOCOM
Tian Bu, Mun Choon Chan, Ramachandran Ramjee
2004 A* conf
INFOCOM
Mun Choon Chan, Ramachandran Ramjee
2003 A* conf
INFOCOM
Sneha Kumar Kasera, Ramachandran Ramjee, Sandra R. Thuel, Xin Wang
2003 A* conf
MobiCom
Haiyun Luo, Ramachandran Ramjee, Prasun Sinha, Li Li, Songwu Lu
2003 A* conf
INFOCOM
Saar Pilosof, Ramachandran Ramjee, Danny Raz, Yuval Shavitt, Prasun Sinha
2002 J jnl
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw.
Ramachandran Ramjee, Kannan Varadhan, Luca Salgarelli, Sandra R. Thuel, Shie Yuan Wang, Thomas F. La Porta
2002 J jnl
Wirel. Networks
Ramachandran Ramjee, Li Li, Thomas F. La Porta, Sneha Kumar Kasera
2002 A* conf
MobiCom
Mun Choon Chan, Ramachandran Ramjee
2001 A* conf
MobiCom
Ramachandran Ramjee, Li Li, Thomas F. La Porta, Sneha Kumar Kasera
2001 J jnl
RFC
James Kempf, Claude Castelluccia, Pars Mutaf, Nobuyasu Nakajima, Yoshihiro Ohba, Ramachandran Ramjee, Yousuf Saifullah, Behçet Sarikaya, Xiaofeng Xu
2000 J jnl
IEEE Wirel. Commun.
Ramachandran Ramjee, Thomas F. La Porta, Luca Salgarelli, Sandra R. Thuel, Kannan Varadhan, Li Li
2000 B conf
PIMRC
Thomas F. La Porta, Kazutaka Murakami, Ramachandran Ramjee
2000 J jnl
IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun.
Ramachandran Ramjee, Thomas F. La Porta, Jim Kurose, Don Towsley
1999 B conf
ICNP
Ramachandran Ramjee, Thomas F. La Porta, Sandra R. Thuel, Kannan Varadhan, Shie Yuan Wang
1998 B conf
PIMRC
Thomas F. La Porta, Ramachandran Ramjee, R. Murakami, Richard W. Buskens, Yow-Jian Lin
1998 conf
FTCS
Kazutaka Murakami, Richard W. Buskens, Ramachandran Ramjee, Yow-Jian Lin, Thomas F. La Porta
1998 J jnl
Mob. Networks Appl.
Thomas F. La Porta, Ramachandran Ramjee, Thomas Y. C. Woo, Krishan K. Sabnani
1998 J jnl
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw.
Ramachandran Ramjee, Thomas F. La Porta, James F. Kurose, Donald F. Towsley
1998 A* conf
INFOCOM
Ramachandran Ramjee, Thomas F. La Porta, James F. Kurose, Donald F. Towsley
1997 J jnl
Wirel. Networks
Ramachandran Ramjee, Donald F. Towsley, Ramesh Nagarajan
1996 A* conf
INFOCOM
Ramachandran Ramjee, Ramesh Nagarajan, Donald F. Towsley
1995 J jnl
Wirel. Networks
Malathi Veeraraghavan, Thomas F. La Porta, Ramachandran Ramjee
1995 J jnl
IEEE Commun. Mag.
Thomas F. La Porta, Malathi Veeraraghavan, Philip A. Treventi, Ramachandran Ramjee
1995 J jnl
IEEE Wirel. Commun.
Ramachandran Ramjee, Thomas F. La Porta, Malathi Veeraraghavan
1994 A* conf
INFOCOM
Ramachandran Ramjee, James F. Kurose, Donald F. Towsley, Henning Schulzrinne
APK_CODE_ANALYSIS_PDD.md
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# APK Code Analysis — Product Design Document

**Author:** Engineering Team
**Date:** 2026-03-07
**Status:** Draft
**Target:** redb ingestor pipeline
**Depends on:** APK_FEATURES_PDD.md (APK static analysis extractors — implemented)

---

## 1. Overview

This document describes the design for adding **DEX code analysis** (decompilation, disassembly, call graphs, cross-references, and function similarity) to the redb ingestor pipeline. This is the Android equivalent of the Binary Ninja code analysis pipeline that exists for PE and ELF binaries.

### 1.1 Goals

- Decompile and disassemble APK DEX bytecode at the **method level**, producing per-method content and reference records analogous to the Binary Ninja `code_binja_*` tables
- Extract **call graphs and cross-references** (caller/callee relationships) for each method
- Compute **function similarity hashes** (SHA-256, ssdeep, TLSH, MinHash) for method-level clustering and hunting
- **Filter out library/framework code** to focus on user-written application logic — same philosophy as the `is_lib_or_thunk()` filter in Binary Ninja analysis
- Produce **decompiled Java source** (via JADX) and **smali disassembly** (via apktool) for each method, following the content/reference split pattern used by Binary Ninja tables
- Integrate with the existing APK extractor pipeline (runs after the Phase 1 APK extractors from `APK_FEATURES_PDD.md`)

### 1.2 Non-Goals

- **Native .so library analysis** — These are equivalent to external DLLs/shared libraries in PE/ELF. They are catalogued by `APKNativeLibExtractor` but not decompiled. If deep native analysis is needed, the existing ELF pipeline can be used on extracted `.so` files in a future phase.
- **Dynamic analysis / emulation** — Out of scope
- **Full APK repackaging / patching** — We use apktool for disassembly only, not rebuild
- **Inter-procedural data-flow analysis** (e.g., FlowDroid taint tracking) — Future consideration

### 1.3 Relationship to Existing Work

| Existing | New (this PDD) |
|----------|----------------|
| `APK_FEATURES_PDD.md` — APK metadata, manifest, permissions, certificates, DEX summary, resources, native libs | DEX **code-level** analysis: per-method decompilation, disassembly, call graphs, similarity hashes |
| `DecompileBinja` — PE/ELF code analysis via Binary Ninja | `DecompileAPK` — APK/DEX code analysis via androguard + JADX + apktool |
| `code_binja_*` ClickHouse tables | `code_apk_*` ClickHouse tables (same content/reference split pattern) |

---

## 2. Background

### 2.1 DEX Bytecode vs Native Code

| Aspect | PE/ELF (Binary Ninja) | APK/DEX (This PDD) |
|--------|----------------------|---------------------|
| Code format | Machine code (x86, ARM) | Dalvik bytecode (register-based VM) |
| Basic unit | Function (by address) | Method (by class + signature) |
| Disassembly | x86/ARM mnemonics | Smali (Dalvik assembly) |
| Decompilation | Pseudo-C (HLIL) | Java source code |
| Library filtering | `is_lib_or_thunk()` — symbol type | Package prefix filtering (e.g., `android.*`, `androidx.*`, `com.google.*`) |
| Similarity hashing | SHA-256 of normalized disassembly | SHA-256 of normalized smali |

### 2.2 Tool Selection

Three tools are combined to replicate the Binary Ninja analysis depth:

| Tool | Role | Integration | License |
|------|------|-------------|---------|
| **Androguard** (Python library) | Method enumeration, call graphs, cross-references, bytecode access, permissions analysis | Direct Python import — `from androguard.misc import AnalyzeAPK` | Apache 2.0 |
| **JADX** (Java CLI) | High-quality Java decompilation (equivalent to Binary Ninja HLIL) | subprocess (following CAPA/DIE pattern) | Apache 2.0 |
| **apktool** (Java CLI) | Smali disassembly with resource decoding (equivalent to Binary Ninja disassembly) | subprocess (following CAPA/DIE pattern) | Apache 2.0 |

**Why all three:**
- **Androguard** is the analysis engine — it provides call graphs, xrefs, and method enumeration natively in Python. However, its decompiler (DAD) produces lower-quality Java than JADX.
- **JADX** produces the best Java decompilation available. It is the industry standard for Android reverse engineering (47k+ GitHub stars).
- **apktool** produces canonical smali output with decoded resources. While androguard can access bytecode, apktool's smali output is the standard interchange format for Android RE.

### 2.3 Library Filtering Strategy

Native `.so` libraries are **not reverse-engineered** — they are equivalent to external DLLs in PE or shared libraries in ELF, and are already inventoried by `APKNativeLibExtractor`.

For DEX code, we filter out **framework/library packages** to focus on user-written code. This is the Android equivalent of `is_lib_or_thunk()` in the Binary Ninja pipeline.

**Default filter list** (configurable via environment variable `APK_LIBRARY_PREFIXES`):

```
android.*              # Android SDK
androidx.*             # AndroidX support libraries
com.google.android.*   # Google Play Services, Firebase
com.google.firebase.*  # Firebase
com.google.gson.*      # Gson JSON library
com.google.protobuf.*  # Protocol Buffers
kotlin.*               # Kotlin stdlib
kotlinx.*              # Kotlin extensions
org.apache.*           # Apache Commons
com.squareup.*         # OkHttp, Retrofit, Moshi
io.reactivex.*         # RxJava
org.reactivestreams.*  # Reactive Streams
com.facebook.*         # Facebook SDK
com.crashlytics.*      # Crashlytics
io.fabric.*            # Fabric
org.junit.*            # Test frameworks
org.mockito.*          # Test frameworks
```

Methods in filtered packages are still counted in call graph edges (caller/callee arrays) but their content is not stored in content tables. This mirrors how Binary Ninja records calls to library functions in `functions_caller`/`functions_call` arrays without decompiling the library functions themselves.

### 2.4 Packer Detection

Packer/protector detection for APKs uses **DetectItEasy (DIE)**, consistent with how packer detection works for PE/ELF/Mach-O in the existing pipeline. DIE already has signatures for common Android packers (Qihoo 360, Bangcle, Ijiami, Tencent Legu, Baidu, etc.).

The existing `DIEExtractor` runs as a format-agnostic extractor before format-specific analysis and requires no changes.

---

## 3. Architecture

### 3.1 Extractor Class Hierarchy

```
Extractor (redb/extractors/extractor.py)
└── DecompileAPK (NEW — redb/extractors/decompiler/DecompileAPK.py)
    ├── Uses: APKCodeAnalyzer (NEW — redb/extractors/decompiler/apk/analyzer.py)
    │   ├── AndroguardAnalysis — call graphs, xrefs, method enumeration
    │   ├── JADXDecompiler — Java decompilation (subprocess)
    │   └── ApktoolDisassembler — smali extraction (subprocess)
    └── Produces: multi_table ClickHouse export (same pattern as DecompileBinja)
```

**Design rationale:** `DecompileAPK` extends `Extractor` directly (not `APKExtractor`) because it follows the `DecompileBinja` pattern — a standalone extractor with its own analysis engine, rather than an APK metadata extractor that shares a parsed `APK` object. The APK parsing object from androguard is used internally but not shared with other extractors.

### 3.2 Analysis Pipeline Flow

```
APK file
  │
  ├─[1]─► apktool d <apk> ─► smali files on disk (temp dir)
  │
  ├─[2]─► jadx <apk> --no-res ─► Java source files on disk (temp dir)
  │
  └─[3]─► androguard AnalyzeAPK() ─► Analysis object (in-memory)
              │
              ├── Method enumeration ──► filter library packages
              │
              ├── For each user method:
              │     ├── Read smali from apktool output [1]
              │     ├── Read Java source from JADX output [2]
              │     ├── Get xrefs from Analysis object [3]
              │     ├── Compute content hashes (SHA-256 of smali, SHA-256 of Java)
              │     ├── Compute similarity hashes (ssdeep, TLSH of smali)
              │     └── Emit content + reference records
              │
              └── Call graph export ──► caller/callee arrays per method
```

Steps [1], [2], and [3] run in parallel (apktool and JADX as subprocess, androguard in-process). All three must complete before per-method analysis begins.

### 3.3 Content/Reference Split Pattern

Following the Binary Ninja schema pattern exactly:

- **Content tables** — Keyed by `function_hash` (SHA-256 of the method content). Deduplicated: if two APKs share identical method code, only one content record exists.
- **Reference tables** — Keyed by `(sha256, method_hash)`. Links a specific binary to its methods. Contains per-binary metadata (method name, class, address, callers, callees, fuzzy hashes).

This is the same pattern as `code_binja_decompiled_functions_content` / `code_binja_decompiled_functions_references`.

### 3.4 Method-Level Hashing

Hashing is computed at the **method level** for consistency with the Binary Ninja pipeline:

| Hash | Input | Purpose |
|------|-------|---------|
| `decompiled_method_hash` | SHA-256 of decompiled Java source (whitespace-normalized) | Content deduplication, exact match |
| `smali_method_hash` | SHA-256 of smali body (instructions only, no `.method`/`.end method` directives) | Content deduplication, exact match |
| `ssdeep_smali` | ssdeep of smali body | Fuzzy similarity search |
| `tlsh_smali` | TLSH of smali body | Fuzzy similarity search |
| `minhash_smali` | MinHash signature of smali instruction n-grams | LSH-based similarity clustering |

### 3.5 Obfuscation Indicators (per method)

Computed from the smali representation:

- `short_method_name` — Method name is <= 2 characters (a, b, c — typical R8/ProGuard output)
- `short_class_name` — Enclosing class has a single-letter name
- `has_string_encryption` — Method contains `const-string` followed by decryption-pattern calls
- `has_reflection_calls` — Method uses `java.lang.reflect.*` APIs
- `excessive_goto_count` — Number of `goto` instructions exceeds threshold (control flow flattening indicator)

---

## 4. Data Model

### 4.1 New Dataclasses

```python
@dataclass
class APKDecompiledMethodContent:
    """Decompiled Java source for a single method (content table — deduplicated by hash)."""
    decompiled_method_hash: str          # SHA-256 of normalized Java source
    decompiled_method: str               # Full Java method source
    method_type: str                     # "USER" or "LIBRARY"
    has_string_encryption: bool = False
    has_reflection_calls: bool = False
    excessive_goto_count: bool = False


@dataclass
class APKDecompiledMethodReference:
    """Links a specific APK to one of its decompiled methods (reference table)."""
    sha256: str                          # APK hash
    sha1: str
    md5: str
    decompiled_method_hash: str          # FK to content table
    smali_method_hash: Optional[str]     # FK to smali content table
    class_name: str                      # e.g., "com.example.MainActivity"
    method_name: str                     # e.g., "onCreate"
    method_signature: str                # e.g., "(Landroid/os/Bundle;)V"
    method_prototype: str                # e.g., "void onCreate(Bundle)"
    functions_caller: List[str]          # Methods that call this method
    functions_call: List[str]            # Methods called by this method


@dataclass
class APKSmaliMethodContent:
    """Smali disassembly for a single method (content table — deduplicated by hash)."""
    smali_method_hash: str               # SHA-256 of normalized smali body
    smali_method: str                    # Full smali method body
    method_type: str                     # "USER" or "LIBRARY"
    instructions_count: int = 0
    register_count: int = 0
    has_string_encryption: bool = False
    has_reflection_calls: bool = False
    excessive_goto_count: bool = False


@dataclass
class APKSmaliMethodReference:
    """Links a specific APK to one of its smali methods (reference table)."""
    sha256: str
    sha1: str
    md5: str
    smali_method_hash: str               # FK to content table
    decompiled_method_hash: Optional[str] # FK to decompiled content table
    class_name: str
    method_name: str
    method_signature: str
    ssdeep_smali: Optional[str] = None
    tlsh_smali: Optional[str] = None


@dataclass
class APKMethodSimilarityMetrics:
    """Similarity hashes for method-level clustering (keyed by smali hash)."""
    smali_method_hash: str
    cyclomatic_complexity: Optional[int] = None
    ssdeep_smali: Optional[str] = None
    tlsh_smali: Optional[str] = None
    minhash: Optional[List[int]] = None


@dataclass
class APKCodeAnalysisError:
    """Error encountered during method analysis."""
    sha256: str
    class_name: Optional[str] = None
    method_name: Optional[str] = None
    error_location: str = ""             # "jadx", "apktool", "androguard", "analysis"
    error_message: Optional[str] = None
    error_type: Optional[str] = None
```

### 4.2 Tag Enum Addition

```python
# In redb/extractors/enum.py
APK_DECOMPILED = "apk_decompiled"
```

### 4.3 ClickHouse Tables

| Table | Key | Pattern | Analog |
|-------|-----|---------|--------|
| `code_apk_decompiled_methods_content` | `decompiled_method_hash` | Content (deduplicated) | `code_binja_decompiled_functions_content` |
| `code_apk_decompiled_methods_references` | `(sha256, decompiled_method_hash)` | Reference (per-binary) | `code_binja_decompiled_functions_references` |
| `code_apk_smali_methods_content` | `smali_method_hash` | Content (deduplicated) | `code_binja_disassembled_functions_content` |
| `code_apk_smali_methods_references` | `(sha256, smali_method_hash)` | Reference (per-binary) | `code_binja_disassembled_functions_references` |
| `code_apk_method_similarity_metrics` | `smali_method_hash` | Similarity | `code_binja_function_similarity_metrics` |
| `code_apk_analysis_errors` | `(sha256, class_name, method_name)` | Errors | `function_analysis_errors_binja` |

All tables use `ReplacingMergeTree(analysis_date)` engine, consistent with existing schema.

---

## 5. External Tool Management

### 5.1 JADX

- **Invocation:** `jadx --no-res --no-imports --threads-count 2 --output-dir <tmpdir> <apk_path>`
- **Flags:**
  - `--no-res` — Skip resource decompilation (androguard handles resources)
  - `--no-imports` — Omit import statements for cleaner per-method extraction
  - `--threads-count 2` — Limit threads (same as Binary Ninja worker thread limit)
- **Output:** Java source files in `<tmpdir>/<package>/<Class>.java`
- **Timeout:** Configurable via `JADX_TIMEOUT` env var (default: 600s)
- **Path:** Configurable via `JADX_PATH` env var (default: `jadx`)
- **Error handling:** If JADX fails for a specific APK, the decompiled content tables are skipped but smali analysis continues. Error logged to `code_apk_analysis_errors`.

### 5.2 apktool

- **Invocation:** `apktool d --no-res --force --output <tmpdir> <apk_path>`
- **Flags:**
  - `--no-res` — Skip resource decoding (only want smali)
  - `--force` — Overwrite output directory if exists
- **Output:** Smali files in `<tmpdir>/smali/com/example/ClassName.smali` (one per class, containing all methods)
- **Timeout:** Configurable via `APKTOOL_TIMEOUT` env var (default: 600s)
- **Path:** Configurable via `APKTOOL_PATH` env var (default: `apktool`)
- **Error handling:** Same as JADX — if apktool fails, smali content tables are skipped but decompiled Java analysis continues. Error logged.

### 5.3 Androguard

- **Invocation:** Direct Python API — `AnalyzeAPK(filepath)` returns `(APK, list[DEX], Analysis)`
- **The `Analysis` object provides:**
  - `get_methods()` — All `MethodAnalysis` objects
  - `get_call_graph()` — networkx `MultiDiGraph` of method calls
  - `MethodAnalysis.get_xref_from()` — Who calls this method
  - `MethodAnalysis.get_xref_to()` — What this method calls
  - `MethodAnalysis.get_method()` — Access to `EncodedMethod` for bytecode
- **No timeout needed** — runs in-process, same Python process

---

## 6. Ingestor Integration

In `workers.py:process_binary_file()`, the APK branch will be extended to run `DecompileAPK` after the existing APK extractors:

```python
# Existing APK extractors (from APK_FEATURES_PDD.md)
for module in apk_modules:
    extractor = module(filepath, logger, exporters=exporters, ...)
    extractor.export_data()

# NEW: Code analysis (this PDD)
if "DecompileAPK" in selected_modules or "all" in selected_modules:
    decompiler = DecompileAPK(
        filepath, logger, exporters=exporters,
        index_prefix=index_prefix, filetype="apk",
    )
    decompiler.export_data()
```

The `DecompileAPK` extractor runs with its own timeout (configurable via `APK_DECOMPILE_TIMEOUT`, default: 1800s) using the same daemon-thread pattern as `DecompileBinja`.

---

## 7. New Dependencies

### 7.1 Required (system-level)

| Tool | Installation | Version | License | Purpose |
|------|-------------|---------|---------|---------|
| **JADX** | System package or download from GitHub releases | >= 1.5 | Apache 2.0 | Java decompilation |
| **apktool** | System package or download from GitHub releases | >= 2.9 | Apache 2.0 | Smali disassembly |
| **Java Runtime** | System package (`openjdk-17-jre` or similar) | >= 11 | GPL+CE | Required by JADX and apktool |

### 7.2 Required (Python — already installed)

| Library | Current Version | Usage in this PDD |
|---------|----------------|-------------------|
| `androguard` | >=4.1 | Call graphs, xrefs, method enumeration (already in requirements.txt) |
| `ppdeep` | installed | ssdeep fuzzy hashing (already used by Binary Ninja pipeline) |
| `py-tlsh` | installed | TLSH fuzzy hashing (already used by Binary Ninja pipeline) |
| `mmh3` | installed | MinHash computation (already used by Binary Ninja pipeline) |
| `networkx` | installed via androguard | Call graph representation (transitive dependency) |

### 7.3 No new Python dependencies required

All Python libraries needed are already in `requirements.txt`. The only new system-level dependencies are JADX, apktool, and a Java runtime.

---

## 8. Implementation Phases

### Phase 1 — Core Infrastructure

1. `APKCodeAnalyzer` class — androguard integration (method enumeration, call graph, xrefs, library filtering)
2. `JADXDecompiler` wrapper — subprocess management with timeout, output parsing
3. `ApktoolDisassembler` wrapper — subprocess management with timeout, smali parsing
4. Method-level content extraction and hashing logic
5. Unit tests for all Phase 1 components

### Phase 2 — Extractor and Data Export

6. `DecompileAPK` extractor class (following `DecompileBinja` pattern)
7. ClickHouse table creation functions
8. Multi-table export (`prepare_export_data`) for all 6 tables
9. Integration with `workers.py` dispatch
10. Unit tests for extractor, schema, and export
11. Update `TEST_INDEX.md`

### Phase 3 — Similarity and Obfuscation Analysis

12. Method-level similarity hash computation (ssdeep, TLSH, MinHash on smali)
13. Obfuscation indicator computation per method
14. `code_apk_method_similarity_metrics` table population
15. Unit tests for similarity and obfuscation
16. Update `TEST_INDEX.md`

### Phase 4 — Integration Testing and Hardening

17. End-to-end integration tests with real APK samples (benign + malicious + obfuscated)
18. Edge case handling: multi-DEX, empty DEX, packed APKs, APKs with no user code
19. Performance profiling and timeout tuning
20. Final `TEST_INDEX.md` update

---

## 9. Testing Strategy

### 9.1 Unit Tests

All unit tests mock external tools (JADX, apktool, androguard) and require no system dependencies:

- **Analyzer tests** — Method enumeration, library filtering, call graph extraction, xref parsing
- **JADX wrapper tests** — Subprocess invocation, output parsing, timeout handling, error recovery
- **Apktool wrapper tests** — Same as JADX
- **Hashing tests** — SHA-256 normalization, ssdeep/TLSH computation, MinHash signature generation
- **Extractor tests** — `DecompileAPK.extract()`, `prepare_export_data()`, multi-table schema validation
- **Smali parsing tests** — Method boundary detection, instruction extraction, register counting

### 9.2 Integration Tests

Require JADX, apktool, and Java installed:

- Full pipeline run on known APK samples
- Cross-validate decompiled output against known method signatures
- Verify ClickHouse export column counts and types
- Test with obfuscated APKs (ProGuard/R8 output)

### 9.3 Markers

```python
@pytest.mark.apk           # All APK tests
@pytest.mark.decompile      # All decompiler tests
@pytest.mark.unit           # No external deps
@pytest.mark.integration    # Requires JADX/apktool/Java
```

---

## 10. Configuration

All configuration via environment variables, consistent with existing extractors:

| Variable | Default | Description |
|----------|---------|-------------|
| `JADX_PATH` | `jadx` | Path to JADX binary |
| `JADX_TIMEOUT` | `600` | JADX subprocess timeout (seconds) |
| `APKTOOL_PATH` | `apktool` | Path to apktool binary |
| `APKTOOL_TIMEOUT` | `600` | apktool subprocess timeout (seconds) |
| `APK_DECOMPILE_TIMEOUT` | `1800` | Overall decompilation timeout (seconds) |
| `APK_LIBRARY_PREFIXES` | (see §2.3) | Comma-separated package prefixes to filter |
| `APK_MIN_METHOD_INSTRUCTIONS` | `5` | Minimum smali instruction count to analyze a method |

---

## 11. Open Questions / Future Work

1. **ProGuard/R8 mapping file support** — If mapping files are bundled (rare in malware, common in crash reports), JADX can use them to restore original names. Deferred.
2. **Kotlin-specific analysis** — Kotlin metadata annotations could provide richer type information. Deferred.
3. **Cross-DEX analysis** — Multi-DEX APKs may have cross-DEX method calls. Androguard handles this via `AnalyzeAPK()` which loads all DEX files into a single `Analysis` object. No special handling needed.
4. **JADX as Java library via JPype** — Could eliminate subprocess overhead. Deferred in favor of the proven subprocess pattern, but may be revisited if performance is an issue.

---

## Appendix A — CFG Feature Parity with Binary Ninja Pipeline

**Date:** 2026-03-13
**Status:** Planned (Phase 5)
**Depends on:** Phases 13 complete

### A.1 Motivation

The Binary Ninja pipeline produces a dedicated `code_binja_cfg_functions` table with 17 fields capturing graph topology, structural hashes, and per-block feature vectors. The current APK pipeline computes only basic graph scalars (`block_count`, `edge_count`, `cyclomatic_complexity`, `loop_count`, `max_depth`, `max_fan_out`) and bundles them into the `code_apk_method_similarity_metrics` table alongside fuzzy hashes.

Analysis shows that **all advanced CFG features can be computed from smali** — this is not a limitation of Java bytecode. The existing APK infrastructure already:

- Builds `successors[]` adjacency lists from smali control flow (`smali_cfg.py`)
- Computes per-block ACFG feature vectors using the same 8-category schema as Binary Ninja (`smali_cfg.py:_build_block_features`)
- Normalizes Dalvik opcodes into semantic categories equivalent to LLIL categories (`smali_normalization.py`)

The generic functions in `cfg_features.py` (`compute_topology_hash`, `compute_md_index_topdown/bottomup`, `compute_wl_minhash`, `compute_cfg_feature_tlsh`, `pack_adjacency`) operate on adjacency lists and block feature arrays — they have no Binary Ninja dependency and can be called directly from the APK pipeline.

### A.2 Table Restructuring

Split the current single table into two, mirroring the Binja pattern:

#### `code_apk_method_similarity_metrics` (content-based fuzzy matching)

Retains only fuzzy hashes and instruction-sequence similarity data:

| Column | Type | Change |
|--------|------|--------|
| `smali_method_hash` | FixedString(64) | Unchanged |
| `cyclomatic_complexity` | Nullable(UInt16) | Stays (duplicated in both, same as Binja) |
| `ssdeep_smali` | Nullable(String) | Unchanged |
| `tlsh_smali` | Nullable(FixedString(72)) | Unchanged |
| `minhash` | Array(UInt8) | Unchanged |
| `analysis_date` | DateTime64(3, 'UTC') | Unchanged |

Removed from this table: `block_count`, `edge_count`, `loop_count`, `max_depth`, `max_fan_out` — these move to the CFG table.

#### `code_apk_cfg_methods` (NEW — structural/topological similarity)

Mirrors `code_binja_cfg_functions`:

| Column | Type | Source | Analog in Binja |
|--------|------|--------|-----------------|
| `smali_method_hash` | FixedString(64) | Existing | `disassembled_function_hash` |
| `cfg_topology_hash` | FixedString(16) | NEW — `cfg_features.compute_topology_hash()` | Same |
| `block_count` | UInt16 | Moved from similarity table | Same |
| `edge_count` | UInt16 | Moved from similarity table | Same |
| `instructions_count` | UInt32 | Existing (total Dalvik instructions) | `llil_total_operations` |
| `call_count` | UInt16 | NEW — count of `invoke-*` instructions | Same |
| `cyclomatic_complexity` | UInt16 | Moved from similarity table | Same |
| `loop_count` | UInt8 | Moved from similarity table | Same |
| `max_depth` | UInt16 | Moved from similarity table | Same |
| `max_fan_out` | UInt8 | Moved from similarity table | Same |
| `md_index_topdown` | UInt64 | NEW — `cfg_features.compute_md_index_topdown()` | Same |
| `md_index_bottomup` | UInt64 | NEW — `cfg_features.compute_md_index_bottomup()` | Same |
| `prime_product_smali` | UInt64 | NEW — Dalvik opcode → prime mapping | `prime_product_llil` |
| `cfg_feature_tlsh` | Nullable(FixedString(72)) | NEW — `cfg_features.compute_cfg_feature_tlsh()` | Same |
| `wl_minhash` | Array(UInt8) | NEW — `cfg_features.compute_wl_minhash()`, 128 elements | Same |
| `bb_features` | Array(Array(UInt16)) | Existing (computed, not exported) | Same |
| `cfg_adjacency` | Array(UInt32) | NEW — `cfg_features.pack_adjacency()` | Same |
| `analysis_date` | DateTime64(3, 'UTC') | | Same |

### A.3 Naming Differences from Binja

Two columns are intentionally renamed to reflect what the data actually represents:

- **`prime_product_smali`** (not `prime_product_llil`) — the prime mapping is applied to normalized Dalvik opcodes, not LLIL. Semantically equivalent for APK-to-APK comparison but not numerically comparable to Binja values.
- **`instructions_count`** (not `llil_total_operations`) — counts Dalvik instructions, not LLIL operations. LLIL decomposes machine instructions into sub-operations; Dalvik bytecode is already at a higher abstraction level where one instruction ≈ one operation.

### A.4 Implementation Requirements

| Task | Effort | Notes |
|------|--------|-------|
| Build `predecessors[]` from `successors[]` in `smali_cfg.py` | ~5 lines | Trivial reverse mapping |
| Define `SMALI_OP_PRIMES` mapping | ~30 lines | Map semantic categories from `smali_normalization.py` to same primes used in `cfg_features.py` |
| Wire `cfg_features.py` functions into `smali_cfg.py` | ~40 lines | Call `compute_topology_hash`, `compute_md_index_*`, `compute_wl_minhash`, `compute_cfg_feature_tlsh`, `pack_adjacency` |
| Export `bb_features` (already computed, not exported) | ~5 lines | Add to results dict |
| Count `invoke-*` instructions for `call_count` | ~5 lines | Filter in instruction loop |
| New `code_apk_cfg_methods` table export in `DecompileAPK.py` | ~60 lines | Follow existing export pattern |
| Slim down `code_apk_method_similarity_metrics` export | ~10 lines | Remove moved columns |
| ClickHouse schema for new table | ~30 lines | Mirror `code_binja_cfg_functions` |
| Unit tests | ~100 lines | Test new fields, reuse patterns from `test_cfg_features.py` |

**Total estimated: ~285 lines of code changes.**

### A.5 What Cannot Be Identical Cross-Platform

The `prime_product_smali` values are **not numerically comparable** to `prime_product_llil` from the Binja pipeline. LLIL decomposes native instructions into sub-operations (e.g., one x86 `push` becomes `STORE` + `SET_REG`), while Dalvik bytecode maps 1:1 to semantic categories. The prime products are valid for APK-vs-APK similarity and APK-vs-APK clustering, which is the intended use case.

All other fields (`cfg_topology_hash`, `md_index_*`, `wl_minhash`, `cfg_feature_tlsh`, `bb_features`, `cfg_adjacency`) are computed from the same generic algorithms and are structurally equivalent across platforms.