Ramine Tinati

43 papers A* 1A 3B 3Misc 1Journal 13Unranked 22
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2018 J jnl
Semantic Web
Oluwaseyi Feyisetan, Elena Simperl, Markus Luczak-Rösch, Ramine Tinati, Nigel Shadbolt
2018 J jnl
Computer
Wendy Hall, Ramine Tinati, Will Jennings
2018 J jnl
ACM Trans. Soc. Comput.
Elena Simperl, Neal Reeves, Chris Phethean, Todd Lynes, Ramine Tinati
2018 J jnl
New Media Soc.
Susan Halford, Mark J. Weal, Ramine Tinati, Les Carr, Catherine Pope
2018 J jnl
Minds Mach.
Markus Luczak-Rösch, Kieron O'Hara, Jesse David Dinneen, Ramine Tinati
2018 J jnl
PeerJ Prepr.
Markus Luczak-Rösch, Kieron O'Hara, Jesse David Dinneen, Ramine Tinati
2017 J jnl
Comput. Hum. Behav.
Ramine Tinati, Markus Luczak-Rösch, Elena Simperl, Wendy Hall
2017 A conf
CSCW
Neal Reeves, Ramine Tinati, Sergej Zerr, Max Van Kleek, Elena Simperl
2017 conf
WebSci
Ramine Tinati, Aastha Madaan, Wendy Hall
2017 conf
WWW (Companion Volume)
Ramine Tinati, Aastha Madaan, Wendy Hall
2017 A conf
ICWSM
Ramine Tinati, Elena Simperl, Markus Luczak-Rösch
2017 J jnl
PeerJ Prepr.
Markus Luczak-Rösch, Ramine Tinati, Kieron O'Hara
2017 J jnl
SIGWEB Newsl.
Ramine Tinati, Markus Luczak-Rösch
2017 conf
WWW (Companion Volume)
Simon Price, Wendy Hall, Graeme Earl, Thanassis Tiropanis, Ramine Tinati, Xin Wang, Eleonora Gandolfi, Jane Gatewood, Richard Boateng, David Denemark, Alexander Gröflin, Brian Loader, Maxine Schmidt, Marilyn Billings, Gerasimos Spanakis, Hussein Suleman, Kelvin Kam-fai Tsoi, Bridgette Wessels, Jie Xu, Mark H. Birkin
2016 B conf
ICWE
Markus Luczak-Rösch, Ramine Tinati, Saud Aljaloud, Wendy Hall, Nigel Shadbolt
2016 conf
WebSci
Ramine Tinati, Markus Luczak-Rösch, Elena Simperl, Wendy Hall
2016 conf
WWW (Companion Volume)
Ramine Tinati, Markus Luczak-Rösch, Wendy Hall
2016 conf
WWW (Companion Volume)
Ramine Tinati, Markus Luczak-Rösch, Wendy Hall, Nigel Shadbolt
2016 J jnl
IEEE Intell. Syst.
Christopher Phethean, Elena Simperl, Thanassis Tiropanis, Ramine Tinati, Wendy Hall
2016 conf
MTSR
Xin Wang, Thanassis Tiropanis, Ramine Tinati
2015 conf
WebSci
Ramine Tinati, Markus Luczak-Rösch, Elena Simperl, Nigel Shadbolt, Wendy Hall
2015 conf
WWW (Companion Volume)
Ramine Tinati, Xin Wang, Ian C. Brown, Thanassis Tiropanis, Wendy Hall
2015 J jnl
IEEE Internet Comput.
Ramine Tinati, Xin Wang, Thanassis Tiropanis, Wendy Hall
2015 A* conf
CHI
Ramine Tinati, Max Van Kleek, Elena Simperl, Markus Luczak-Rösch, Robert J. Simpson, Nigel Shadbolt
2015 B conf
ASONAM
Markus Luczak-Rösch, Ramine Tinati, Max Van Kleek, Nigel Shadbolt
2015 conf
CSCW Companion
Markus Luczak-Rösch, Ramine Tinati, Kieron O'Hara, Nigel Shadbolt
2015 B conf
ESWC
Oluwaseyi Feyisetan, Markus Luczak-Rösch, Elena Simperl, Ramine Tinati, Nigel Shadbolt
2015 conf
WWW (Companion Volume)
Ramine Tinati, Markus Luczak-Rösch, Nigel Shadbolt, Wendy Hall
2015 conf
WWW (Companion Volume)
Markus Luczak-Rösch, Ramine Tinati, Nigel Shadbolt
2014 conf
WWW (Companion Volume)
Ramine Tinati, Leslie Carr, Susan Halford, Catherine Pope
2014 conf
WWW (Companion Volume)
Max Van Kleek, Daniel Alexander Smith, Ramine Tinati, Kieron O'Hara, Wendy Hall, Nigel R. Shadbolt
2014 conf
WebSci
Ramine Tinati, Olivier Phillipe, Catherine Pope, Les Carr, Susan Halford
2014 J jnl
CoRR
Ramine Tinati, Elena Simperl, Markus Luczak-Rösch, Max Van Kleek, Nigel Shadbolt
2014 conf
WWW (Companion Volume)
Ramine Tinati, Paul Gaskell, Thanassis Tiropanis, Olivier Phillipe, Wendy Hall
2014 conf
WebSci
Ramine Tinati, Markus Luczak-Rösch, Elena Simperl, Nigel Shadbolt
2014 Misc conf
SEMANTiCS
Oluwaseyi Feyisetan, Elena Simperl, Ramine Tinati, Markus Luczak-Rösch, Nigel Shadbolt
2014 J jnl
ERCIM News
Wendy Hall, Thanassis Tiropanis, Ramine Tinati, Xin Wang, Markus Luczak-Rösch, Elena Simperl
2014 A conf
ICWSM
Markus Luczak-Rösch, Ramine Tinati, Elena Simperl, Max Van Kleek, Nigel Shadbolt, Robert J. Simpson
2013 conf
WWW (Companion Volume)
Ramine Tinati, Thanassis Tiropanis, Leslie Carr
2013 conf
WWW (Companion Volume)
Ramine Tinati, Leslie Carr, Susan Halford, Catherine Pope
2012 conf
WWW (Companion Volume)
Ramine Tinati, Leslie Carr, Wendy Hall, Jonny Bentwood
2012 conf
WebSci
Ramine Tinati, Susan Halford, Leslie Carr, Catherine Pope
2012 conf
SocialCom/PASSAT
Ramine Tinati, Leslie Carr
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