Cary Laxer

37 papers A* 1A 8B 12C 4Journal 6Unranked 6
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2021 A conf
SIGCSE
Cary Laxer
2021 A conf
SIGCSE
Brett A. Becker, Amber Settle, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Briana B. Morrison, Cary Laxer
2018 J jnl
Inroads
Cary Laxer, Larry Merkle, Frank H. Young
2017 B conf
ITiCSE
Irene Polycarpou, Panayiotis Andreou, Cary Laxer, Stan Kurkovsky
2015 B conf
ITiCSE
Alison Clear, Janet Carter, Amruth Kumar, Cary Laxer, Simon, Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas
2014 B conf
ITiCSE
Arnold Pears, Alison Clear, Lillian N. Cassel, Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas, Valentina Dagiene, Cary Laxer
2013 C conf
FIE
Roger McDermott, Iain Pirie, Cary Laxer, Åsa Cajander, Mats Daniels
2013 B conf
ITiCSE
Roger McDermott, Iain Pirie, Åsa Cajander, Mats Daniels, Cary Laxer
2013 A conf
SIGCSE
Allen S. Parrish, Cary Laxer
2012 C conf
FIE
Åsa Cajander, Mats Daniels, Mats Cullhed, Tony Clear, Roger McDermott, Cary Laxer
2012 C conf
FIE
Åsa Cajander, Mats Daniels, Can Kültür, Lori Russell-Dag, Cary Laxer
2012 conf
I3D
Michael Lester, Cary Laxer
2012 C conf
FIE
Roger McDermott, Mats Daniels, Åsa Cajander, Mats Cullhed, Tony Clear, Cary Laxer
2010 A conf
SIGCSE
Archana Chidanandan, Lori Russell-Dag, Cary Laxer, Reyyan Ayfer
2010 B conf
ITiCSE
Christopher R. Routh, Cary Laxer, Logan Muller, Nicholas J. Dimmitt
2010 B ed.
ITiCSE
Reyyan Ayfer, John Impagliazzo, Cary Laxer
2008 B ed.
ITiCSE
June Amillo, Cary Laxer, Ernestina Menasalvas Ruiz, Alison Young
2006 conf
SIGGRAPH Educators Program
Tony Alley, Cary Laxer, Tereza Flaxman, Joe Geigel, Susan Gold, Lewis E. Hitchner, Genevieve Orr, Bary W. Pollack
2005 J jnl
ACM SIGCSE Bull.
Ursula Fuller, June Amillo, Cary Laxer, W. Michael McCracken, Joseph Mertz
2003 J jnl
ACM SIGCSE Bull.
Martin Dick, Judy Sheard, Catherine C. Bareiss, Janet Carter, Donald Joyce, Trevor Harding, Cary Laxer
2003 J jnl
ACM SIGCSE Bull.
Sylvia Alexander, Martyn Clark, Ken Loose, June Amillo, Mats Daniels, Roger D. Boyle, Cary Laxer, Dermot Shinners-Kennedy
2002 conf
SIGGRAPH Abstracts and Applications
Gary R. Bertoline, Cary Laxer
2002 B conf
ITiCSE
Cary Laxer
2001 J jnl
ACM SIGCSE Bull.
Michael McCracken, Vicki L. Almstrum, Danny Diaz, Mark Guzdial, Dianne Hagan, Yifat Ben-David Kolikant, Cary Laxer, Lynda Thomas, Ian Utting, Tadeusz Wilusz
2001 A conf
SIGCSE
Barbara Boucher Owens, Fran Hunt, Stuart Reges, Cary Laxer
2001 B conf
ITiCSE
Cary Laxer
1999 B conf
ITiCSE
David Mutchler, Claude Anderson, Andrew Kinley, Cary Laxer, Dale Oexmann, Rimli Sengupta, Frank H. Young
1998 conf
SIGGRAPH Abstracts and Applications
Cary Laxer, Aaron Klebanoff
1998 conf
ITiCSE-WGR
Stan J. Thomas, Cary Laxer, Tomohiro Nishida, Helen Sherlock
1998 J jnl
ACM SIGCSE Bull.
Stan J. Thomas, Cary Laxer, Tomohiro Nishida, Helen Sherlock
1997 conf
ITiCSE-WGR
Daniel T. Joyce, Deborah Knox, Jill Gerhardt-Powals, Elliot B. Koffman, Wolfgang Kreuzer, Cary Laxer, Ken Loose, Erkki Sutinen, R. Alan Whitehurst
1996 B conf
ITiCSE
David Mutchler, Cary Laxer
1995 A ed.
SIGCSE
Cary Laxer, Curt M. White, James E. Miller, Judith L. Gersting
1994 A* conf
SIGGRAPH
Maria M. Larrondo-Petrie, Jack Bresenham, Cary Laxer, John Lansdown, G. Scott Owen
1993 A ed.
SIGCSE
Bruce J. Klein, Cary Laxer, Frank H. Young
1990 B conf
CBMS
Cary Laxer, Raymond E. Ideker, William M. Smith, Patrick D. Wolf, Edward V. Simpson
1983 A conf
SIGCSE
Kevin W. Bowyer, Mel D. Ray, Cary Laxer
redb/extractors/elf_extractors/elf_exports.py
← Index redb/extractors/elf_extractors/elf_exports.py python
import inspect
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from typing import Any, List, Set

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 ELFExport


class ELFExportExtractor(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_exports = None
        self.elastic_index = self.index_prefix + "-elf_exports"
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

    def _get_exported_functions_from_symbols(self, elf) -> Set[str]:
        """Extract exported functions from symbol tables."""
        exported_functions = set()

        try:
            # Check both static (.symtab) and dynamic (.dynsym) symbol tables
            symbol_sections = ['.symtab', '.dynsym']

            for section_name in symbol_sections:
                section = elf.get_section_by_name(section_name)
                if not section or not hasattr(section, 'iter_symbols'):
                    continue

                for symbol in section.iter_symbols():
                    # Check if symbol is exported (defined and globally visible)
                    if (symbol.name and
                        symbol.entry.get('st_shndx', 0) != 'SHN_UNDEF' and  # Not undefined
                        symbol.entry.get('st_info', {}).get('bind') in ['STB_GLOBAL', 'STB_WEAK'] and  # Global or weak binding
                        symbol.entry.get('st_info', {}).get('type') in ['STT_FUNC', 'STT_OBJECT']):  # Function or object

                        # Additional checks for meaningful exports
                        if (symbol.entry.get('st_value', 0) > 0 or  # Has a value
                            symbol.entry.get('st_size', 0) > 0):    # Has a size
                            exported_functions.add(symbol.name)

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting exported functions from symbols: {e}")

        return exported_functions

    def _get_exported_functions_from_dynamic_section(self, elf) -> Set[str]:
        """Extract exported functions information from dynamic section."""
        exported_functions = set()

        try:
            # Get the dynamic section
            dynamic_section = elf.get_section_by_name('.dynamic')
            if not dynamic_section:
                return exported_functions

            # Look for version definition sections that might indicate exports
            # This is complementary to symbol table analysis
            for tag in dynamic_section.iter_tags():
                if tag.entry.d_tag == 'DT_SONAME':
                    # If it has a SONAME, it's likely a shared library with exports
                    # The actual exports are still found in symbol tables
                    pass

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting exports from dynamic section: {e}")

        return exported_functions

    def _filter_meaningful_exports(self, exports: Set[str]) -> Set[str]:
        """Filter out compiler-generated and internal symbols to focus on meaningful exports."""
        filtered_exports = set()

        # Common patterns to exclude (compiler-generated, internal symbols)
        exclude_patterns = [
            '_start',
            '_init',
            '_fini',
            '__libc_',
            '__gmon_start__',
            '_IO_stdin_used',
            '__data_start',
            '__bss_start',
            '_edata',
            '_end',
            '__TMC_END__',
            '_ITM_deregisterTMCloneTable',
            '_ITM_registerTMCloneTable',
            '__cxa_finalize',
            '__gxx_personality_v0',
            '_Jv_RegisterClasses'
        ]

        for export in exports:
            # Skip empty or very short names
            if not export or len(export) < 2:
                continue

            # Skip symbols that match exclude patterns
            skip = False
            for pattern in exclude_patterns:
                if export.startswith(pattern):
                    skip = True
                    break

            # Skip symbols that look like internal mangled names (but keep reasonable C++ names)
            if export.startswith('_Z') and len(export) > 50:  # Very long mangled names
                skip = True

            if not skip:
                filtered_exports.add(export)

        return filtered_exports

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

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

            def extract_data(elf):
                # Extract exported functions from multiple sources
                exported_functions = set()

                # From symbol tables (primary source)
                symbol_exports = self._get_exported_functions_from_symbols(elf)
                exported_functions.update(symbol_exports)

                # From dynamic section (supplementary)
                dynamic_exports = self._get_exported_functions_from_dynamic_section(elf)
                exported_functions.update(dynamic_exports)

                # Filter out compiler-generated and internal symbols
                meaningful_exports = self._filter_meaningful_exports(exported_functions)

                # Convert to sorted list for consistent output
                export_functions_list = sorted(list(meaningful_exports))

                # Return ELFExport dataclass
                return ELFExport(
                    elf_exports_total=len(export_functions_list),
                    elf_export_functions=export_functions_list,
                )

            if not self._is_elf_file():
                return None

            result = self._with_elf_file(extract_data)
            if result is None:
                return None

            self.elf_exports = result
            return self.elf_exports

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting ELF exports {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_exports
        elif exporter_type == "ClickHouseExporter":
            try:
                if not self.elf_exports:
                    return None

                # Prepare data array
                data = [[
                    self.sha256,
                    self.md5,
                    self.sha1,
                    self.elf_exports.elf_exports_total,
                    self.elf_exports.elf_export_functions,
                    datetime.now(timezone.utc)
                ]]

                column_names = [
                    'sha256', 'md5', 'sha1',
                    'elf_exports_total',
                    'elf_export_functions',
                    'analysis_date'
                ]

                if not data:
                    return None

                column_type_names = [
                    'FixedString(64)', 'FixedString(32)', 'FixedString(40)',
                    'UInt32',
                    'Array(LowCardinality(String))',
                    'DateTime64(3, \'UTC\')'
                ]

                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_exports"