Waqar Ali

34 papers A 3B 1Misc 2Journal 16Unranked 11
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
Pattern Recognit.
Waqar Ali, Sebastiano Vascon, Thilo Stadelmann, Marcello Pelillo
2025 J jnl
J. Parallel Distributed Comput.
Basem Assiri, Muhammad Faisal Nadeem, Waqar Ali, Ali Ahmad
2024 J jnl
BMC Medical Informatics Decis. Mak.
Jinge Wu, Hang Dong, Zexi Li, Haowei Wang, Runci Li, Arijit Patra, Chengliang Dai, Waqar Ali, Phil Scordis, Honghan Wu
2024 conf
S+SSPR
Ahmed Begga, Waqar Ali, Gabriel Niculescu, Francisco Escolano, Thilo Stadelmann, Marcello Pelillo
2024 conf
IEEM
Waqar Ali, Idriss El-Thalji, Knut Erik Teigen Giljarhus, Andreas Delimitis
2024 J jnl
Pattern Recognit. Lett.
Waqar Ali, Sebastiano Vascon, Thilo Stadelmann, Marcello Pelillo
2023 Misc conf
SAC
Waqar Ali, Sebastiano Vascon, Thilo Stadelmann, Marcello Pelillo
2022 J jnl
Int. J. Found. Comput. Sci.
Muhammad Faisal Nadeem, Waqar Ali, Hafiz Muhammad Afzal Siddiqui
2021 J jnl
IEEE Access
Waqar Ali, Yuwang Yang, Xiulin Qiu, Yaqi Ke, Yinyin Wang
2021 A conf
DATE
Waqar Ali, Rodolfo Pellizzoni, Heechul Yun
2020
Waqar Ali
2020 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst.
Homa Aghilinasab, Waqar Ali, Heechul Yun, Rodolfo Pellizzoni
2020 conf
HRI (Companion)
Waqar Ali, Andrew B. Williams
2019 J jnl
Multim. Tools Appl.
Anwar Ur Rehman, Ahmad Kamran Malik, Basit Raza, Waqar Ali
2019 A conf
RTAS
Waqar Ali, Heechul Yun
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Waqar Ali, Heechul Yun
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Waqar Ali, Heechul Yun
2018 conf
ICAC
Waqar Ali, Tanveer Ahmad, Zobia Rehman, Anwar Ur Rehman, Munam Ali Shah, Ansar Abbas, Ghulam Dustgeer
2018 conf
IMIS
Ayesha Anjum Butt, Nadeem Javaid, Sana Mujeeb, Salman Ahmed, Malik Muhammad Shahid Ali, Waqar Ali
2018 J jnl
IEEE Access
Muhammad Ishtiaq, Waqar Ali, Waseem Shahzad, Muhammad Arfan Jaffar, Yunyoung Nam
2018 J jnl
Dagstuhl Artifacts Ser.
Waqar Ali, Heechul Yun
2018 B conf
ECRTS
Waqar Ali, Heechul Yun
2018 Misc conf
FIT
Muhammad Jamshed Abbas, Haris Sheh Zad, Muhammad Awais, Waqar Ali
2018 conf
ICAC
Anwar Ur Rehman, Zobia Rehman, Junaid Akram, Waqar Ali, Munam Ali Shah, Muhammad Salman
2017 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Computers
Heechul Yun, Waqar Ali, Santosh Gondi, Siddhartha Biswas
2017 conf
3PGCIC
Muhammad Junaid, Muhammad Hassan Rahim, Anwar Ur Rehman, Waqar Ali, Muhammad Awais, Tamour Bilal, Nadeem Javaid
2017 conf
BWCCA
Anwar Ur Rehman, Sheraz Aslam, Zain Ul Abideen, Asma Zahra, Waqar Ali, Muhammad Junaid, Nadeem Javaid
2017 conf
3PGCIC
Arje Saba, Adia Khalid, Adnan Ishaq, Komal Parvez, Sayed Aimal, Waqar Ali, Nadeem Javaid
2017 conf
NBiS
Waqar Ali, Anwar Ur Rehman, Muhammad Junaid, Sayed Ali Asjad Shaukat, Zafar Faiz, Nadeem Javaid
2017 conf
ICAC
Waqar Ali, Ghulam Dustgeer, Muhammad Awais, Munam Ali Shah
2017 J jnl
CoRR
Waqar Ali, Heechul Yun
2017 A conf
RTAS
Waqar Ali, Heechul Yun
2014 J jnl
Bioinform.
Waqar Ali, Tiago Rito, Gesine Reinert, Fengzhu Sun, Charlotte M. Deane
2009 J jnl
Bioinform.
Waqar Ali, Charlotte M. Deane
redb/extractor_registry.py
← Index redb/extractor_registry.py python
"""
Extractor registry with lazy loading by file type.

Groups extractors by file type (pe, elf, macho, apk) and only imports
the relevant group when that file type is first encountered. This avoids
loading heavy dependencies (pefile, lief, androguard, etc.) into workers
that don't need them.
"""
import importlib
import logging

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

# Registry: group name -> list of (module_path, class_names)
_REGISTRY = {
    "pe": [
        ("redb.extractors.pe_extractors", [
            "PEFeaturesExtractor",
            "PEImportExtractor",
            "PEResourceExtractor",
            "PEOverlayExtractor",
            "PESectionExtractor",
            "PESignatureExtractor",
            "PEExtraFindings",
            "PEInconstistencyTestsExtractor",
            "PEDotNetExtractor",
        ]),
    ],
    "elf": [
        ("redb.extractors.elf_extractors", [
            "ELFFeaturesExtractor",
            "ELFSegmentExtractor",
            "ELFSectionExtractor",
            "ELFDependencyExtractor",
            "ELFSymbolExtractor",
            "ELFImportExtractor",
            "ELFExportExtractor",
            "ELFRelocationExtractor",
            "ELFNotesExtractor",
        ]),
    ],
    "macho": [
        ("redb.extractors.macho_extractors", [
            "MachOFeaturesExtractor",
            "MachOSegmentExtractor",
            "MachOImportExtractor",
            "MachOExportExtractor",
            "MachODylibExtractor",
            "MachOSignatureExtractor",
        ]),
    ],
    "apk": [
        ("redb.extractors.apk_extractors", [
            "APKFeaturesExtractor",
            "APKManifestExtractor",
            "APKPermissionsExtractor",
            "APKSignatureExtractor",
            "APKDexExtractor",
            "APKResourceExtractor",
            "APKNativeLibExtractor",
            "APKInconsistencyTestsExtractor",
        ]),
        ("redb.extractors.decompiler.DecompileAPK", [
            "DecompileAPK",
        ]),
    ],
    "js": [
        ("redb.extractors.js_extractors", [
            "JSFeaturesExtractor",
            "JSSuspiciousAPIsExtractor",
            "JSStringsExtractor",
            "JSDeobfuscationExtractor",
            "JSContentExtractor",
        ]),
    ],
}

# Map filetype labels (from Magika) to registry group names
FILETYPE_TO_GROUP = {
    "pebin": "pe",
    "elf": "elf",
    "macho": "macho",
    "apk": "apk",
    "javascript": "js",
}

# Cache: group name -> {class_name: class}
_group_cache = {}


def _load_group(group_name):
    """Import all extractors for a group. Cached after first call."""
    if group_name in _group_cache:
        return _group_cache[group_name]

    logger.debug(f"Loading extractor group: {group_name}")

    # Suppress androguard logging before importing APK extractors
    if group_name == "apk":
        from loguru import logger as loguru_logger
        loguru_logger.disable("androguard")

    classes = {}
    for module_path, class_names in _REGISTRY[group_name]:
        mod = importlib.import_module(module_path)
        for name in class_names:
            classes[name] = getattr(mod, name)

    _group_cache[group_name] = classes
    return classes


def get_filetype_modules(filetype):
    """Get the list of format-specific extractor classes for a filetype.

    Returns only analysis extractors (excludes decompilers like DecompileAPK).
    """
    group = FILETYPE_TO_GROUP.get(filetype)
    if not group:
        return []
    classes = _load_group(group)
    return [cls for name, cls in classes.items() if not name.startswith("Decompile")]


def get_extractor_class(name):
    """Look up a single extractor class by name across all groups.

    Checks cached groups first, then loads groups on demand.
    """
    # Check already-loaded groups first
    for group_classes in _group_cache.values():
        if name in group_classes:
            return group_classes[name]

    # Search all groups (triggers lazy loading)
    for group_name in _REGISTRY:
        classes = _load_group(group_name)
        if name in classes:
            return classes[name]

    return None