Carlos E. Otero

52 papers B 1Misc 1Journal 19Unranked 31
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2021 conf
MILCOM
David Nieves-Acaron, Benjamin Luchterhand, Akshay Aravamudan, David Elliott, Steven Wyatt, Carlos E. Otero, Luis Daniel Otero, Anthony O. Smith, Adrian M. Peter, Wesley Jones, Eric Lam
2021 conf
SysCon
Juan C. Avendano, Luis Daniel Otero, Carlos E. Otero
2021 conf
WF-IoT
Steven Wyatt, David Elliott, Akshay Aravamudan, Carlos E. Otero, Luis Daniel Otero, Georgios C. Anagnostopoulos, Anthony O. Smith, Adrian M. Peter, Wesley Jones, Steven Leung, Eric Lam
2021 conf
SysCon
Juan C. Avendano, Luis Daniel Otero, Carlos E. Otero
2021 J jnl
CoRR
David Elliott, Carlos E. Otero, Steven Wyatt, Evan Martino
2020 conf
WF-IoT
David Elliott, Evan Martino, Carlos E. Otero, Anthony O. Smith, Adrian M. Peter, Benjamin Luchterhand, Eric Lam, Steven Leung
2020 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. Syst.
Tajudeen Olawale Olasupo, Carlos E. Otero
2020 conf
SysCon
Luz C. Ortega, Luis Daniel Otero, Carlos E. Otero, Aldo Fabregas
2019 conf
SysCon
Luz Ortega, Luis Daniel Otero, Carlos E. Otero
2019 J jnl
IEEE Access
Luz Ortega, Luis Daniel Otero, Carlos E. Otero
2019 J jnl
IEEE Access
Yunus Egi, Carlos E. Otero
2019 conf
SysCon
Yunus Egi, Carlos E. Otero
2018 conf
IEEE CLOUD
David Elliott, Carlos E. Otero, Matthew Ridley, Xavier Merino
2018 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Netw. Serv. Manag.
Tajudeen Olawale Olasupo, Carlos E. Otero
2018 conf
IEEE CLOUD
Xavier Merino Aguilera, Carlos E. Otero, Matthew Ridley, David Elliott
2018 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Intell. Transp. Syst.
Tajudeen Olawale Olasupo, Carlos E. Otero, Luis Daniel Otero, Kehinde O. Olasupo, Ivica Kostanic
2017 conf
Med-Hoc-Net
Ibrahim Oraibi, Carlos E. Otero, Tajudeen Olawale Olasupo
2017 conf
Med-Hoc-Net
Kehinde O. Olasupo, Ivica Kostanic, Carlos E. Otero, Tajudeen Olawale Olasupo
2016 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas.
Joshua P. Bruckmeyer, Ann Hinshaw, Carlos E. Otero, Ivica Kostanic
2016 J jnl
IEEE Access
Derek T. Otermat, Ivica Kostanic, Carlos E. Otero
2016 B conf
SAS
Tajudeen Olawale Olasupo, Carlos E. Otero, Kehinde O. Olasupo, Abrar A. Qureshi
2016 conf
SysCon
Luis Daniel Otero, Nicholas Gagliardo, Dennis Dalli, Carlos E. Otero
2016 conf
SysCon
Luis Daniel Otero, Nicholas Gagliardo, Dennis Dalli, Carlos E. Otero
2015 J jnl
IEEE Syst. J.
Carlos E. Otero, Rana Haber, Adrian M. Peter, Abdulaziz S. Alsayyari, Ivica Kostanic
2015 conf
WF-IoT
Derek T. Otermat, Carlos E. Otero, Ivica Kostanic
2015 J jnl
IEEE Intell. Syst.
Carlos E. Otero, Adrian M. Peter
2014 conf
ICNSC
Abdulaziz S. Alsayyari, Ivica Kostanic, Carlos E. Otero
2014 conf
WF-IoT
Abdulaziz S. Alsayyari, Ivica Kostanic, Carlos E. Otero, Mohammed Almeer, Kusay Rukieh
2013 J jnl
Int. J. Wirel. Mob. Comput.
Abdel Ejnioui, Carlos E. Otero, Ivica Kostanic
2013 conf
SysCon
Rana Haber, Adrian M. Peter, Carlos E. Otero, Ivica Kostanic, Abdel Ejnioui
2013 conf
SysCon
Abdel Ejnioui, Carlos E. Otero, Abrar A. Qureshi
2013 conf
RIIT
Abdel Ejnioui, Carlos E. Otero, Abrar A. Qureshi
2013 J jnl
Int. J. Comput. Appl. Technol.
Abdel Ejnioui, Carlos E. Otero, Luis Daniel Otero
2012 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Engineering Management
Luis Daniel Otero, Grisselle Centeno, Carlos E. Otero, Kingsley Anthony Reeves
2012 J jnl
Expert Syst. Appl.
Luis Daniel Otero, Carlos E. Otero
2012 conf
RIIT
Abdel Ejnioui, Carlos E. Otero, Luis Daniel Otero
2011 J jnl
Int. J. Dependable Trust. Inf. Syst.
Angel R. Otero, Abdel Ejnioui, Carlos E. Otero, Gurvirender Tejay
2010 conf
ICWN
Carlos E. Otero, Ivica Kostanic, Nenad Mijatovic, Ira Weissberger
2010 Misc conf
IC-AI
Luis Daniel Otero, Carlos E. Otero, Grisselle Centeno
2010 conf
UKSim
Carlos E. Otero, Luis Daniel Otero, Ira Weissberger, Abrar A. Qureshi
2010 conf
Security and Management
Abrar A. Qureshi, Kamel Rekab, Carlos E. Otero
2010 conf
MSV
Carlos E. Otero, Ivica Kostanic, Luis Daniel Otero, Abrar A. Qureshi
2010 conf
ICWN
Ira Weissberger, Ivica Kostanic, Nenad Mijatovic, Carlos E. Otero
2010 conf
GEM
Luis Daniel Otero, Carlos E. Otero, Adrian M. Peter
2010 conf
MUE
Ira Weissberger, Ivica Kostanic, Carlos E. Otero
2010 J jnl
IEEE Syst. J.
Carlos E. Otero, W. H. Shaw, Ivica Kostanic, Luis Daniel Otero
2010 conf
Software Engineering Research and Practice
Luis Daniel Otero, Carlos E. Otero, William Arrasmith
2009 conf
UKSim
Carlos E. Otero, Ivica Kostanic, Luis Daniel Otero
2009 J jnl
Comput. Ind. Eng.
Luis Daniel Otero, Grisselle Centeno, Alex J. Ruiz-Torres, Carlos E. Otero
2009 J jnl
J. Networks
Carlos E. Otero, Ivica Kostanic, Luis Daniel Otero
2009 J jnl
J. Comput.
Carlos E. Otero, Antonio Velazquez, Ivica Kostanic, Chelakara Subramanian, Jean-Paul Pinelli, Larry Buist
2008 conf
ICWN
Carlos E. Otero, Ivica Kostanic, Chelakara Subramanian, Jean-Paul Pinelli, Antonio Velazquez
redb/extractors/apk_extractors/apk_dex.py
← Index redb/extractors/apk_extractors/apk_dex.py python
import hashlib
import inspect
import json
from collections import Counter
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from typing import Any

import tlsh

from redb.extractors.enum import Tag
from redb.extractors.apk_extractor import APKExtractor
from redb.models.dataclasses import APKDexFile

# Sensitive API patterns categorized for malware analysis
SENSITIVE_API_CATEGORIES = {
    "reflection": [
        "Ljava/lang/reflect/Method;->invoke",
        "Ljava/lang/reflect/Field;->get",
        "Ljava/lang/reflect/Field;->set",
        "Ljava/lang/reflect/Constructor;->newInstance",
        "Ljava/lang/Class;->forName",
        "Ljava/lang/Class;->getMethod",
        "Ljava/lang/Class;->getDeclaredMethod",
        "Ljava/lang/Class;->getDeclaredField",
        "Ljava/lang/ClassLoader;->loadClass",
    ],
    "crypto": [
        "Ljavax/crypto/Cipher;->getInstance",
        "Ljavax/crypto/Cipher;->init",
        "Ljavax/crypto/spec/SecretKeySpec;-><init>",
        "Ljavax/crypto/spec/IvParameterSpec;-><init>",
        "Ljava/security/MessageDigest;->getInstance",
        "Ljava/security/KeyStore;->getInstance",
        "Ljavax/crypto/Mac;->getInstance",
    ],
    "dynamic_loading": [
        "Ldalvik/system/DexClassLoader;-><init>",
        "Ldalvik/system/PathClassLoader;-><init>",
        "Ldalvik/system/InMemoryDexClassLoader;-><init>",
        "Ldalvik/system/BaseDexClassLoader;-><init>",
        "Ljava/lang/Runtime;->exec",
        "Ljava/lang/ProcessBuilder;->start",
    ],
    "telephony": [
        "Landroid/telephony/TelephonyManager;->getDeviceId",
        "Landroid/telephony/TelephonyManager;->getSubscriberId",
        "Landroid/telephony/TelephonyManager;->getLine1Number",
        "Landroid/telephony/TelephonyManager;->getSimSerialNumber",
        "Landroid/telephony/TelephonyManager;->getNetworkOperator",
        "Landroid/telephony/TelephonyManager;->getSimOperator",
    ],
    "sms": [
        "Landroid/telephony/SmsManager;->sendTextMessage",
        "Landroid/telephony/SmsManager;->sendMultipartTextMessage",
        "Landroid/telephony/SmsManager;->sendDataMessage",
    ],
    "network": [
        "Ljava/net/HttpURLConnection;->connect",
        "Ljava/net/URL;->openConnection",
        "Lokhttp3/OkHttpClient;-><init>",
        "Lokhttp3/Request$Builder;->build",
        "Lorg/apache/http/client/HttpClient;->execute",
        "Landroid/webkit/WebView;->loadUrl",
        "Landroid/webkit/WebView;->setWebViewClient",
    ],
    "native": [
        "Ljava/lang/System;->loadLibrary",
        "Ljava/lang/System;->load",
        "Ljava/lang/Runtime;->loadLibrary",
    ],
    "device_info": [
        "Landroid/os/Build;->FINGERPRINT",
        "Landroid/os/Build;->MODEL",
        "Landroid/os/Build;->MANUFACTURER",
        "Landroid/os/Build;->PRODUCT",
        "Landroid/os/Build;->BRAND",
        "Landroid/os/Build;->DEVICE",
        "Landroid/os/Build;->HARDWARE",
        "Landroid/os/Build;->SERIAL",
        "Landroid/os/Build$VERSION;->SDK_INT",
        "Landroid/provider/Settings$Secure;->getString",
    ],
    "file_io": [
        "Ljava/io/FileOutputStream;-><init>",
        "Ljava/io/FileInputStream;-><init>",
        "Landroid/content/SharedPreferences;->edit",
        "Landroid/database/sqlite/SQLiteDatabase;->execSQL",
        "Landroid/database/sqlite/SQLiteDatabase;->rawQuery",
    ],
    "ipc": [
        "Landroid/content/ContentResolver;->query",
        "Landroid/content/ContentResolver;->insert",
        "Landroid/content/ContentResolver;->delete",
        "Landroid/content/Intent;-><init>",
        "Landroid/content/Context;->sendBroadcast",
        "Landroid/content/Context;->startService",
        "Landroid/content/Context;->bindService",
    ],
}


class APKDexExtractor(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.dex_files = []
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

    def tag(self):
        return Tag.APK_DEX.value

    def _analyze_api_usage(self, dex):
        """Categorize sensitive API calls found in DEX bytecode."""
        api_usage = {cat: set() for cat in SENSITIVE_API_CATEGORIES}

        try:
            for method in dex.get_encoded_methods():
                code = method.get_code()
                if not code:
                    continue
                try:
                    bytecode = code.get_bc()
                    if not bytecode:
                        continue
                    for instruction in bytecode.get_instructions():
                        op_name = instruction.get_name()
                        if not op_name or not op_name.startswith("invoke"):
                            continue
                        output = instruction.get_output()
                        if not output:
                            continue
                        for category, patterns in SENSITIVE_API_CATEGORIES.items():
                            for pattern in patterns:
                                if pattern in output:
                                    api_usage[category].add(output.strip())
                                    break
                except Exception:
                    continue
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.warning(f"Error analyzing API usage: {e}")

        # Convert sets to sorted lists
        return {cat: sorted(calls) for cat, calls in api_usage.items() if calls}

    def _compute_obfuscation_indicators(self, classes, methods):
        """Compute obfuscation indicators from class/method names."""
        class_names = []
        for cls in classes:
            try:
                name = cls.get_name()
                if name:
                    class_names.append(name)
            except Exception:
                continue

        method_names = []
        for m in methods:
            try:
                name = m.get_name()
                if name and name not in ("<init>", "<clinit>"):
                    method_names.append(name)
            except Exception:
                continue

        if not class_names:
            return None

        # Short class names: extract just the class part from Dalvik notation
        short_class = 0
        for n in class_names:
            simple = n.split("/")[-1].rstrip(";")
            if len(simple) <= 2:
                short_class += 1

        short_method = sum(1 for n in method_names if len(n) <= 2)

        return {
            "short_class_names_pct": round(short_class / max(len(class_names), 1), 4),
            "short_method_names_pct": round(short_method / max(len(method_names), 1), 4),
            "non_ascii_identifiers": sum(1 for n in class_names if not n.isascii()),
            "avg_class_name_length": round(
                sum(len(n) for n in class_names) / max(len(class_names), 1), 2
            ),
        }

    def _compute_top_packages(self, classes):
        """Compute top packages by class count."""
        package_counter = Counter()
        for cls in classes:
            try:
                name = cls.get_name()  # "Lcom/example/foo/Bar;"
                if not name:
                    continue
                parts = name[1:].replace("/", ".").rsplit(".", 1)
                if len(parts) > 1:
                    package = parts[0]
                else:
                    package = "(default)"
                package_counter[package] += 1
            except Exception:
                continue

        return [
            {"package": pkg, "class_count": count}
            for pkg, count in package_counter.most_common(20)
        ]

    def extract(self):
        if not self._is_valid_apk():
            self.log.error(f"Invalid APK for {self.hash.sha256}")
            return None

        from androguard.core.dex import DEX

        try:
            dex_names = list(self.apk.get_dex_names() or [])
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.warning(f"Error getting DEX names for {self.hash.sha256}: {e}")
            dex_names = []

        try:
            dex_buffers = list(self.apk.get_all_dex() or [])
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting DEX buffers for {self.hash.sha256}: {e}")
            return None

        if not dex_buffers:
            self.log.debug("No DEX files found in APK")
            return None

        self.dex_files = []
        for i, dex_data in enumerate(dex_buffers):
            dex_name = dex_names[i] if i < len(dex_names) else f"classes{i}.dex"

            dex_sha256 = hashlib.sha256(dex_data).hexdigest()
            dex_tlsh = None
            if len(dex_data) >= 50:
                try:
                    dex_tlsh = tlsh.hash(dex_data) or None
                except Exception:
                    pass

            try:
                d = DEX(dex_data)
            except Exception as e:
                self.log.warning(f"Failed to parse DEX {dex_name}: {e}")
                continue

            try:
                classes = list(d.get_classes() or [])
            except Exception as e:
                self.log.warning(f"Error getting classes from {dex_name}: {e}")
                classes = []
            try:
                methods = list(d.get_methods() or [])
            except Exception as e:
                self.log.warning(f"Error getting methods from {dex_name}: {e}")
                methods = []
            try:
                strings = list(d.get_strings() or [])
            except Exception as e:
                self.log.warning(f"Error getting strings from {dex_name}: {e}")
                strings = []

            try:
                top_packages = self._compute_top_packages(classes)
            except Exception as e:
                self.log.warning(f"Error computing top packages for {dex_name}: {e}")
                top_packages = []
            try:
                api_usage = self._analyze_api_usage(d)
            except Exception as e:
                self.log.warning(f"Error analyzing API usage for {dex_name}: {e}")
                api_usage = {}
            try:
                obfuscation_indicators = self._compute_obfuscation_indicators(classes, methods)
            except Exception as e:
                self.log.warning(f"Error computing obfuscation indicators for {dex_name}: {e}")
                obfuscation_indicators = None

            self.dex_files.append(APKDexFile(
                filename=dex_name,
                sha256=dex_sha256,
                class_count=len(classes),
                method_count=len(methods),
                string_count=len(strings),
                tlsh=dex_tlsh,
                top_packages=top_packages,
                api_usage=api_usage if api_usage else None,
                obfuscation_indicators=obfuscation_indicators,
            ))

        return self.dex_files if self.dex_files else None

    def prepare_export_data(self, exporter_type: str) -> Any:
        if exporter_type == "ClickHouseExporter":
            if not self.dex_files:
                return None

            current_time = datetime.now(timezone.utc)

            # DEX table: one row per DEX file
            dex_data = []
            for dex in self.dex_files:
                dex_data.append([
                    self.sha256,
                    dex.sha256,
                    dex.filename,
                    dex.tlsh,
                    dex.class_count,
                    dex.method_count,
                    dex.string_count,
                    json.dumps(dex.top_packages) if dex.top_packages else None,
                    json.dumps(dex.obfuscation_indicators) if dex.obfuscation_indicators else None,
                    current_time,
                ])

            # API usage table: one row per category per DEX
            api_data = []
            for dex in self.dex_files:
                if dex.api_usage:
                    for category, api_calls in dex.api_usage.items():
                        api_data.append([
                            self.sha256,
                            dex.sha256,
                            category,
                            api_calls,
                            current_time,
                        ])

            return {
                'multi_table': True,
                'dex': {
                    'table': 'redb_apk_dex',
                    'data': dex_data,
                    'column_names': [
                        'sha256', 'dex_sha256', 'dex_filename', 'dex_tlsh',
                        'dex_class_count', 'dex_method_count', 'dex_string_count',
                        'dex_top_packages', 'dex_obfuscation_indicators',
                        'analysis_date',
                    ],
                    'column_type_names': [
                        'FixedString(64)', 'FixedString(64)', 'String', 'Nullable(String)',
                        'UInt32', 'UInt32', 'UInt32',
                        'Nullable(String)', 'Nullable(String)',
                        "DateTime64(3, 'UTC')",
                    ],
                },
                'api_usage': {
                    'table': 'redb_apk_dex_api_usage',
                    'data': api_data,
                    'column_names': [
                        'sha256', 'dex_sha256', 'api_category',
                        'api_calls', 'analysis_date',
                    ],
                    'column_type_names': [
                        'FixedString(64)', 'FixedString(64)', 'LowCardinality(String)',
                        'Array(String)', "DateTime64(3, 'UTC')",
                    ],
                },
            }

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