Carl J. Nuzman

28 papers A* 2A 1B 4Misc 1Journal 17Unranked 3
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
IEEE Wirel. Commun.
Jie Chen, William J. Hillery, Kursat Rasim Mestav, Carl J. Nuzman, Iraj Saniee, Yunchou Xing
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Dani Korpi, Rachel Wang, Jerry Wang, Abdelrahman Ibrahim, Carl J. Nuzman, Runxin Wang, Kursat Rasim Mestav, Dustin Zhang, Iraj Saniee, Shawn Winston, Gordana Pavlovic, Wei Ding, William J. Hillery, Chenxi Hao, Ram Thirunagari, Jung Chang, Jeehyun Kim, Bartek Kozicki, Dragan Samardzija, Taesang Yoo, Andreas Maeder, Tingfang Ji, Harish Viswanathan
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Foad Sohrabi, Carl J. Nuzman, Jinfeng Du, Hong Yang, Harish Viswanathan
2025 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Signal Process.
Foad Sohrabi, Carl J. Nuzman, Jinfeng Du, Hong Yang, Harish Viswanathan
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Shirin Jalali, Carl J. Nuzman, Yue Sun
2020 J jnl
IEEE Access
Wouter Lanneer, Carl J. Nuzman, Yannick Lefevre, Paschalis Tsiaflakis, Werner Coomans, Marc Moonen
2019 A* conf
NeurIPS
Shirin Jalali, Carl J. Nuzman, Iraj Saniee
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Shirin Jalali, Carl J. Nuzman, Iraj Saniee
2016 conf
EUSIPCO
Jochen Maes, Carl J. Nuzman, Paschalis Tsiaflakis
2015 J jnl
Bell Labs Tech. J.
Jochen Maes, Carl J. Nuzman
2014 conf
ICC
Jochen Maes, Carl J. Nuzman
2014 B conf
GLOBECOM
Mamoun Guenach, Carl J. Nuzman, Paschalis Tsiaflakis, Jochen Maes
2013 B conf
GLOBECOM
Mamoun Guenach, Mahdi Ben Ghorbel, Carl J. Nuzman, Koen Hooghe, Michael Timmers, Jochen Maes
2013 J jnl
IEEE Commun. Mag.
Michael Timmers, Mamoun Guenach, Carl J. Nuzman, Jochen Maes
2011 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Signal Process.
Phil Whiting, Gerhard Kramer, Carl J. Nuzman, Alexei E. Ashikhmin, Adriaan J. de Lind van Wijngaarden, Miroslav Zivkovic
2011 A conf
ITC
Indra Widjaja, Carl J. Nuzman
2010 conf
VTC Fall
Indra Widjaja, Humberto J. La Roche, Carl J. Nuzman
2010 Misc conf
CISS
Jochen Maes, Carl J. Nuzman, Adriaan J. de Lind van Wijngaarden, Danny Van Bruyssel
2010 J jnl
Bell Labs Tech. J.
Mamoun Guenach, Carl J. Nuzman, Jochen Maes, Michaël Peeters, Yan Li, Danny Van Bruyssel, Frank Defoort
2010 J jnl
IEEE Commun. Mag.
Vladimir Oksman, Heinrich Schenk, Axel Clausen, John M. Cioffi, Mehdi Mohseni, George Ginis, Carl J. Nuzman, Jochen Maes, Miguel Peeters, Kevin D. Fisher, Per-Erik Eriksson
2008 B conf
GLOBECOM
Phil Whiting, Alexei E. Ashikhmin, Gerhard Kramer, Carl J. Nuzman, Adriaan J. de Lind van Wijngaarden, Miroslav Zivkovic, Michaël Peeters, Mamoun Guenach, Jochen Maes, Jan Verlinden
2008 J jnl
Bell Labs Tech. J.
Miroslav Zivkovic, Gerhard Kramer, Carl J. Nuzman, Carl Posthuma, James Wheeler, Phil Whiting, Adriaan J. de Lind van Wijngaarden
2007 B conf
GLOBECOM
Carl J. Nuzman
2006 A* conf
INFOCOM
Carl J. Nuzman, Indra Widjaja
2005 J jnl
Bell Labs Tech. J.
Nachi K. Nithi, Carl J. Nuzman, Benjamin Y. C. Tang
2005 J jnl
Bell Labs Tech. J.
Tin Kam Ho, Todd Salamon, Roland W. Freund, Christopher A. White, Bruce Hillyer, Lawrence C. Cowsar, Carl J. Nuzman, Daniel C. Kilper
2002 J jnl
Comput. Networks
Carl J. Nuzman, Iraj Saniee, Wim Sweldens, Alan Weiss
2002 J jnl
Int. J. Commun. Syst.
Vincenzo Eramo, Marco Listanti, Carl J. Nuzman, Phil Whiting
redb/extractors/elf_extractors/elf_segments.py
← Index redb/extractors/elf_extractors/elf_segments.py python
import inspect
import hashlib
import math
from collections import Counter
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from typing import Any, List, Dict

from elftools.elf.elffile import ELFFile
from elftools.common.exceptions import ELFError

from redb.extractors.enum import Tag
from redb.extractors.elf_extractor import ELFExtractor
from redb.models.dataclasses import ELFSegment


class ELFSegmentExtractor(ELFExtractor):

    def __init__(
        self,
        filepath,
        log,
        exporters=None,
        index_prefix=None,
        elastic_index=None,
        known_benign=False,
        known_malicious=False,
        elf=None,
    ):
        super().__init__(
            filepath,
            log,
            exporters,
            index_prefix,
            elastic_index,
            known_benign,
            known_malicious,
            elf,
        )
        self.elf_segments = []
        self.elastic_index = self.index_prefix + "-elf_segments"
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

    def _is_empty_result(self, extracted_data) -> bool:
        """
        Override: Empty segments is an ERROR, not a valid empty case.
        A valid ELF file must have segments (program headers).
        """
        # Always return False - empty segments should be treated as an error
        return False

    def _calculate_entropy(self, data: bytes) -> float:
        """Calculate Shannon entropy of data."""
        if not data:
            return 0.0

        try:
            # Count frequency of each byte
            byte_counts = Counter(data)
            data_len = len(data)

            # Calculate entropy
            entropy = 0.0
            for count in byte_counts.values():
                if count > 0:
                    frequency = count / data_len
                    entropy -= frequency * math.log2(frequency)

            return entropy
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error calculating entropy: {e}")
            return 0.0

    def _map_segment_type(self, p_type_str: str) -> int:
        """Map segment type string to enum value."""
        type_map = {
            'PT_NULL': 0,
            'PT_LOAD': 1,
            'PT_DYNAMIC': 2,
            'PT_INTERP': 3,
            'PT_NOTE': 4,
            'PT_SHLIB': 5,
            'PT_PHDR': 6,
            'PT_TLS': 7
        }
        return type_map.get(p_type_str, 0)

    def _decode_segment_flags(self, flags: int) -> List[str]:
        """Decode segment flags to human-readable strings."""
        flag_strings = []

        if flags & 0x1:  # PF_X
            flag_strings.append('EXECUTE')
        if flags & 0x2:  # PF_W
            flag_strings.append('WRITE')
        if flags & 0x4:  # PF_R
            flag_strings.append('READ')

        return flag_strings if flag_strings else ['NONE']

    def _extract_segment_data(self, segment) -> ELFSegment:
        """Extract data from a single segment with granular error handling."""
        # Initialize with safe defaults
        segment_type = 0
        segment_type_str = 'unknown'
        segment_flags = 0
        segment_flags_str = ['NONE']
        segment_offset = 0
        segment_vaddr = 0
        segment_paddr = 0
        segment_filesz = 0
        segment_memsz = 0
        segment_align = 0
        segment_entropy = 0.0
        segment_sha256 = ""
        segment_md5 = ""

        # Try to get segment header
        header = None
        try:
            header = segment.header
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.warning(f"Could not access segment header: {e}")
            return ELFSegment(
                segment_type=segment_type, segment_type_str=segment_type_str,
                segment_flags=segment_flags, segment_flags_str=segment_flags_str,
                segment_offset=segment_offset, segment_vaddr=segment_vaddr,
                segment_paddr=segment_paddr, segment_filesz=segment_filesz,
                segment_memsz=segment_memsz, segment_align=segment_align,
                segment_entropy=segment_entropy, segment_sha256=segment_sha256,
                segment_md5=segment_md5
            )

        # Extract segment type
        try:
            p_type_str = header.get('p_type', 'PT_NULL')
            segment_type = self._map_segment_type(p_type_str)
            segment_type_str = p_type_str.replace('PT_', '') if p_type_str.startswith('PT_') else p_type_str
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.warning(f"Could not extract segment type: {e}")

        # Extract segment flags
        try:
            segment_flags = header.get('p_flags', 0)
            segment_flags_str = self._decode_segment_flags(segment_flags)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.warning(f"Could not extract segment flags: {e}")

        # Extract segment addresses and sizes
        try:
            segment_offset = header.get('p_offset', 0)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.warning(f"Could not extract segment offset: {e}")

        try:
            segment_vaddr = header.get('p_vaddr', 0)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.warning(f"Could not extract segment vaddr: {e}")

        try:
            segment_paddr = header.get('p_paddr', 0)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.warning(f"Could not extract segment paddr: {e}")

        try:
            segment_filesz = header.get('p_filesz', 0)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.warning(f"Could not extract segment filesz: {e}")

        try:
            segment_memsz = header.get('p_memsz', 0)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.warning(f"Could not extract segment memsz: {e}")

        try:
            segment_align = header.get('p_align', 0)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.warning(f"Could not extract segment align: {e}")

        # Calculate entropy and hashes for segment data (most likely to fail)
        try:
            if segment_filesz > 0:
                segment_data = segment.data()
                if segment_data:
                    # Calculate entropy
                    segment_entropy = self._calculate_entropy(segment_data)

                    # Calculate hashes
                    segment_sha256 = hashlib.sha256(segment_data).hexdigest()
                    segment_md5 = hashlib.md5(segment_data).hexdigest()
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.warning(f"Could not read segment data for hashing: {e}")
            # Keep defaults (0.0, "", "")

        return ELFSegment(
            segment_type=segment_type,
            segment_type_str=segment_type_str,
            segment_flags=segment_flags,
            segment_flags_str=segment_flags_str,
            segment_offset=segment_offset,
            segment_vaddr=segment_vaddr,
            segment_paddr=segment_paddr,
            segment_filesz=segment_filesz,
            segment_memsz=segment_memsz,
            segment_align=segment_align,
            segment_entropy=segment_entropy,
            segment_sha256=segment_sha256,
            segment_md5=segment_md5
        )

    def tag(self):
        return Tag.ELF_SEGMENTS.value if hasattr(Tag, 'ELF_SEGMENTS') else "elf_segments"

    def extract(self):
        try:
            self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

            def extract_segments(elf):
                segments_data = []

                # Iterate through all segments with per-segment error handling
                for segment_index, segment in enumerate(elf.iter_segments()):
                    try:
                        segment_data = self._extract_segment_data(segment)
                        if segment_data:
                            segments_data.append(segment_data)
                        else:
                            self.log.warning(f"Failed to extract data for segment {segment_index}")
                    except Exception as e:
                        self.log.warning(f"Error processing segment {segment_index}: {e}")
                        # Continue processing other segments

                return segments_data

            # Check if file is valid ELF
            if not self._is_elf_file():
                self.log.error(f"No valid ELF file for {self.hash.sha256}")
                return None

            segments_data = self._with_elf_file(extract_segments)
            if segments_data is None:
                return None

            self.elf_segments = segments_data
            return self.elf_segments

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting ELF segments {self.hash.sha256}: {e}")
            return None

    def prepare_export_data(self, exporter_type: str) -> Any:
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

        if exporter_type == "ElasticsearchExporter":
            return self.elf_segments
        elif exporter_type == "ClickHouseExporter":
            try:
                if not self.elf_segments:
                    return None

                # Prepare data arrays for all segments
                data = []
                current_time = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
                for segment in self.elf_segments:
                    row = [
                        self.sha256,
                        self.md5,
                        self.sha1,
                        segment.segment_type,
                        segment.segment_type_str,
                        segment.segment_flags,
                        segment.segment_flags_str,
                        segment.segment_offset,
                        segment.segment_vaddr,
                        segment.segment_paddr,
                        segment.segment_filesz,
                        segment.segment_memsz,
                        segment.segment_align,
                        segment.segment_entropy,
                        segment.segment_sha256,
                        segment.segment_md5,
                        current_time
                    ]
                    data.append(row)

                column_names = [
                    'sha256', 'md5', 'sha1',
                    'segment_type', 'segment_type_str', 'segment_flags', 'segment_flags_str',
                    'segment_offset', 'segment_vaddr', 'segment_paddr',
                    'segment_filesz', 'segment_memsz', 'segment_align',
                    'segment_entropy', 'segment_sha256', 'segment_md5',
                    'analysis_date'
                ]

                column_type_names = [
                    'FixedString(64)', 'FixedString(32)', 'FixedString(40)',
                    "Enum8('NULL'=0, 'LOAD'=1, 'DYNAMIC'=2, 'INTERP'=3, 'NOTE'=4, 'SHLIB'=5, 'PHDR'=6, 'TLS'=7)",
                    'LowCardinality(String)',
                    'UInt32',
                    'Array(LowCardinality(String))',
                    'UInt64', 'UInt64', 'UInt64', 'UInt64', 'UInt64', 'UInt64',
                    'Float64',
                    'FixedString(64)', 'FixedString(32)',
                    'DateTime64(3, \'UTC\')'
                ]

                if not data:
                    return None

                return (data, column_names, column_type_names)

            except Exception as e:
                self.log.error(f"Error preparing export data: {e}")
                raise

    def get_clickhouse_table(self) -> str:
        return "redb_elf_segments"