Ce Zhang

37 papers A* 6A 3Misc 1Journal 25Unranked 2
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Ce Zhang, Jinxi He, Junyi He, Katia Sycara, Yaqi Xie
2026 J jnl
Trans. Mach. Learn. Res.
Ce Zhang, Kaixin Ma, Tianqing Fang, Wenhao Yu, Hongming Zhang, Zhisong Zhang, Haitao Mi, Dong Yu
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Zhanpeng Luo, Ce Zhang, Silong Yong, Cunxi Dai, Qianwei Wang, Haoxi Ran, Guanya Shi, Katia Sycara, Yaqi Xie
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Tianqing Fang, Zhisong Zhang, Xiaoyang Wang, Rui Wang, Can Qin, Yuxuan Wan, Jun-Yu Ma, Ce Zhang, Jiaqi Chen, Xiyun Li, Hongming Zhang, Haitao Mi, Dong Yu
2025 A conf
WACV
Ce Zhang, Simon Stepputtis, Katia P. Sycara, Yaqi Xie
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Rui Wang, Ce Zhang, Jun-Yu Ma, Jianshu Zhang, Hongru Wang, Yi Chen, Boyang Xue, Tianqing Fang, Zhisong Zhang, Hongming Zhang, Haitao Mi, Dong Yu, Kam-Fai Wong
2025 conf
ACL (1)
Zifu Wan, Yaqi Xie, Ce Zhang, Zhiqiu Lin, Zihan Wang, Simon Stepputtis, Deva Ramanan, Katia P. Sycara
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Zifu Wan, Yaqi Xie, Ce Zhang, Zhiqiu Lin, Zihan Wang, Simon Stepputtis, Deva Ramanan, Katia P. Sycara
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Zifu Wan, Ce Zhang, Silong Yong, Martin Q. Ma, Simon Stepputtis, Louis-Philippe Morency, Deva Ramanan, Katia P. Sycara, Yaqi Xie
2025 A* conf
ICLR
Ce Zhang, Zifu Wan, Zhehan Kan, Martin Q. Ma, Simon Stepputtis, Deva Ramanan, Russ Salakhutdinov, Louis-Philippe Morency, Katia P. Sycara, Yaqi Xie
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Ce Zhang, Zifu Wan, Zhehan Kan, Martin Q. Ma, Simon Stepputtis, Deva Ramanan, Russ Salakhutdinov, Louis-Philippe Morency, Katia P. Sycara, Yaqi Xie
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Ce Zhang, Zifu Wan, Simon Stepputtis, Katia P. Sycara, Yaqi Xie
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Ce Zhang, Kaixin Ma, Tianqing Fang, Wenhao Yu, Hongming Zhang, Zhisong Zhang, Yaqi Xie, Katia P. Sycara, Haitao Mi, Dong Yu
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Zhehan Kan, Ce Zhang, Zihan Liao, Yapeng Tian, Wenming Yang, Junyuan Xiao, Xu Li, Dongmei Jiang, Yaowei Wang, Qingmin Liao
2024 A* conf
AAAI
Yi Zhang, Ce Zhang, Ke Yu, Yushun Tang, Zhihai He
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Yi Zhang, Ce Zhang, Ke Yu, Yushun Tang, Zhihai He
2024 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Artif. Intell.
Ce Zhang, Kailiang Wu, Zhihai He
2024 J jnl
Neurocomputing
Yi Zhang, Ce Zhang, Yushun Tang, Zhihai He
2024 A* conf
NeurIPS
Ce Zhang, Simon Stepputtis, Katia P. Sycara, Yaqi Xie
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Ce Zhang, Simon Stepputtis, Katia P. Sycara, Yaqi Xie
2024 A* conf
CVPR
Ce Zhang, Simon Stepputtis, Joseph Campbell, Katia P. Sycara, Yaqi Xie
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Ce Zhang, Simon Stepputtis, Joseph Campbell, Katia P. Sycara, Yaqi Xie
2024 A conf
WACV
Xueting Hu, Ce Zhang, Yi Zhang, Bowen Hai, Ke Yu, Zhihai He
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Ce Zhang, Simon Stepputtis, Katia P. Sycara, Yaqi Xie
2024 Misc conf
ICASSP
Yi Zhang, Ce Zhang
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Yi Zhang, Ce Zhang
2023 A conf
BMVC
Yi Zhang, Ce Zhang, Zihan Liao, Yushun Tang, Zhihai He
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Yi Zhang, Ce Zhang, Zihan Liao, Yushun Tang, Zhihai He
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Ce Zhang, Kailiang Wu, Zhihai He
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Yi Zhang, Ce Zhang, Yushun Tang, Zhihai He
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Xueting Hu, Ce Zhang, Yi Zhang, Bowen Hai, Ke Yu, Zhihai He
2023 A* conf
CVPR
Yushun Tang, Ce Zhang, Heng Xu, Shuoshuo Chen, Jie Cheng, Luziwei Leng, Qinghai Guo, Zhihai He
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Yushun Tang, Ce Zhang, Heng Xu, Shuoshuo Chen, Jie Cheng, Luziwei Leng, Qinghai Guo, Zhihai He
2023 A* conf
CVPR
Zhehan Kan, Shuoshuo Chen, Ce Zhang, Yushun Tang, Zhihai He
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Zhehan Kan, Shuoshuo Chen, Ce Zhang, Yushun Tang, Zhihai He
2023 conf
PRCV (1)
Yi Zhang, Ce Zhang, Xueting Hu, Zhihai He
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Yi Zhang, Ce Zhang, Xueting Hu, Zhihai He
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"