Ramesh C. Joshi

58 papers A* 3C 1Misc 3Journal 30Unranked 21
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2021 J jnl
Sustain. Comput. Informatics Syst.
Sameer Singh Chauhan, Emmanuel S. Pilli, Ramesh C. Joshi
2021 J jnl
Int. J. Interact. Multim. Artif. Intell.
Akansha Gupta, Kamal Kumar Ghanshala, Ramesh C. Joshi
2019 conf
ICACDS (1)
Preeti Mishra, Akash Negi, Emmanuel S. Pilli, Ramesh C. Joshi
2015 conf
WF-IoT
Avani Sharma, Tarun Kumar Goyal, Emmanuel S. Pilli, Arka Prokash Mazumdar, Mahesh Chandra Govil, Ramesh C. Joshi
2013 J jnl
Int. J. Netw. Secur.
Radhika Goel, Anjali Sardana, Ramesh C. Joshi
2012 J jnl
Int. J. Netw. Secur.
Brij B. Gupta, Ramesh C. Joshi, Manoj Misra
2012 J jnl
CoRR
Brij B. Gupta, Ramesh C. Joshi, Manoj Misra
2012 J jnl
CoRR
Brij B. Gupta, Manoj Misra, Ramesh C. Joshi
2012 J jnl
CoRR
Brij B. Gupta, Ramesh C. Joshi, Manoj Misra
2012 J jnl
CoRR
Brij B. Gupta, Ramesh C. Joshi, Manoj Misra
2012 J jnl
Int. J. Netw. Secur.
Radhika Goel, Anjali Sardana, Ramesh C. Joshi
2011 J jnl
J. Medical Syst.
Bankat M. Patil, Ramesh C. Joshi, Durga Toshniwal, Siddeshwar Biradar
2011 J jnl
Int. J. Comput. Vis. Robotics
Bankat M. Patil, Ramesh C. Joshi, Durga Toshniwal
2011 conf
ICWET
Emmanuel S. Pilli, Ramesh C. Joshi, Rajdeep Niyogi
2011 J jnl
Int. J. Mob. Comput. Multim. Commun.
Anjali Sardana, Ramesh C. Joshi
2011 J jnl
Int. J. Circuit Theory Appl.
Brajesh Kumar Kaushik, Rajendra P. Agarwal, Sankar Sarkar, Ramesh C. Joshi, D. S. Chauhan
2010 conf
ICT
Emmanuel S. Pilli, Ramesh C. Joshi, Rajdeep Niyogi
2010 conf
IC3 (1)
Naga Sathish Gidijala, Sanketh Datla, Ramesh C. Joshi
2010 J jnl
Int. J. Ad Hoc Ubiquitous Comput.
Lalit Kumar Awasthi, Manoj Misra, Ramesh C. Joshi
2010 conf
IC3 (1)
Ajanta Konar, Ramesh C. Joshi
2010 J jnl
Microelectron. J.
Brajesh Kumar Kaushik, Sankar Sarkar, Rajendra Prasad Agarwal, Ramesh C. Joshi
2010 J jnl
Int. J. Auton. Adapt. Commun. Syst.
Teek Parval Sharma, Ramesh C. Joshi, Manoj Misra
2010 J jnl
J. Intell. Manuf.
Anjali Sardana, Ramesh C. Joshi, Tai-Hoon Kim, Sung Jang
2010 J jnl
Int. J. Comput. Intell. Stud.
Bankat M. Patil, Ramesh C. Joshi, Durga Toshniwal
2010 J jnl
Int. J. Multim. Intell. Secur.
Brij B. Gupta, Ramesh C. Joshi, Manoj Misra
2010 conf
IC3 (1)
Bankat M. Patil, Ramesh C. Joshi, Durga Toshniwal
2010 conf
IC3 (1)
Bankat M. Patil, Ramesh C. Joshi, Durga Toshniwal
2010 conf
ICT
Atul Kant Kaushik, Emmanuel S. Pilli, Ramesh C. Joshi
2010 J jnl
Digit. Investig.
Emmanuel S. Pilli, Ramesh C. Joshi, Rajdeep Niyogi
2009 J jnl
Comput. Commun.
Anjali Sardana, Ramesh C. Joshi
2009 conf
IC3
Appala Raju Kotaru, Ramesh C. Joshi
2008 J jnl
J. Comput. Inf. Technol.
Vinay Arya, Ankush Mittal, Amit Pande, Ramesh C. Joshi
2008 conf
ISEC
Rajesh Kumar Bhatia, Mayank Dave, Ramesh C. Joshi
2008 J jnl
Comput. Networks
Vijay K. Verma, Ramesh C. Joshi, Bin Xie, Dharma P. Agrawal
2008 conf
ICETET
Rajeev Singh, Suman Das, Durga Toshniwal, Manoj Mishra, Ramesh C. Joshi
2008 conf
ICIIS
Suman Das, Rajeev Singh, Ramesh C. Joshi, Durga Toshiwal
2008 C conf
IPCCC
Teek Parval Sharma, Ramesh C. Joshi, Manoj Misra
2007 J jnl
Wirel. Pers. Commun.
Narottam Chand, Ramesh C. Joshi, Manoj Misra
2007 J jnl
Mob. Inf. Syst.
Narottam Chand, Ramesh C. Joshi, Manoj Misra
2007 conf
ICIT
Brajesh Kumar Kaushik, Sankar Sarkar, Rajendra Prasad Agarwal, Ramesh C. Joshi
2007 J jnl
Wirel. Commun. Mob. Comput.
Narottam Chand, Ramesh C. Joshi, Manoj Misra
2007 conf
DMIN
Durga Toshniwal, Ramesh C. Joshi
2007 J jnl
Int. J. Ad Hoc Ubiquitous Comput.
Narottam Chand, Ramesh C. Joshi, Manoj Misra
2006 J jnl
Int. J. Commun. Syst.
Narottam Chand, Ramesh C. Joshi, Manoj Misra
2006 conf
ICPADS (1)
Narottam Chand, Ramesh C. Joshi, Manoj Misra
2006 conf
COMSWARE
Narottam Chand, Ramesh C. Joshi, Manoj Misra
2006 conf
Software Engineering Research and Practice
Rajesh Kumar Bhatia, Mayank Dave, Ramesh C. Joshi
2005 conf
IWDC
Narottam Chand, Ramesh C. Joshi, Manoj Misra
2005 Misc conf
ADC
Durga Toshniwal, Ramesh C. Joshi
2005 J jnl
Informatica (Slovenia)
Durga Toshniwal, Ramesh C. Joshi
2004 Misc conf
HiPC
Narottam Chand, Ramesh C. Joshi, Manoj Misra
2004 Misc conf
ICDCIT
Narottam Chand, Ramesh C. Joshi, Manoj Misra
2003 A* conf
ICDE
L. Kumar, Muldip Mishra, Ramesh C. Joshi
2002 conf
CGIV
Ramesh C. Joshi, Shashikala Tapaswi
1994 conf
ICPP (3)
Ramesh C. Joshi, G. S. D. Varma, Kuldip Singh
1992 A* conf
INFOCOM
P. K. Bansal, Kuldip Singh, Ramesh C. Joshi
1991 A* conf
INFOCOM
P. K. Bansal, Kuldip Singh, Ramesh C. Joshi, G. P. Saroha
1988 J jnl
Comput. Graph.
Ramesh C. Joshi, H. Darbari, S. Goel, Sasikumaran Sasikumaran
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"