Cesare Valenti

50 papers B 5C 3Misc 2Journal 18Unranked 22
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
Inf.
Rajesh Kumar, Giacomo Corvisieri, Tullio Flavio Fici, Syed Ibrar Hussain, Domenico Tegolo, Cesare Valenti
2024 conf
SUM
Vincenzo Taormina, Domenico Tegolo, Cesare Valenti
2023 J jnl
Sensors
Vincenzo Taormina, Giuseppe Raso, Vito Gentile, Leonardo Abbene, Antonino Buttacavoli, Gaetano Bonsignore, Cesare Valenti, Pietro Messina, Giuseppe Alessandro Scardina, Donato Cascio
2022 J jnl
IEEE Access
Marco Elio Tabacchi, Domenico Tegolo, Donato Cascio, Cesare Valenti, Salvatore Sorce, Vito Gentile, Vincenzo Taormina, Ignazio Brusca, Giuseppe Magazzù, Angele Giuliano, Giuseppe Raso
2021 J jnl
Inf.
Davide Andrea Guastella, Guilhem Marcillaud, Cesare Valenti
2021 conf
ICAART (1)
Davide Andrea Guastella, Nicolas Verstaevel, Cesare Valenti, Bilal Arshad, Johan Barthélemy
2020 J jnl
J. Biomed. Informatics
Dario Lo Castro, Domenico Tegolo, Cesare Valenti
2019 conf
CompSysTech
Salvatore Sorce, Vito Gentile, Donato Cascio, Angele Giuliano, Marco Elio Tabacchi, Vincenzo Taormina, Domenico Tegolo, Cesare Valenti, Giuseppe Raso
2019 conf
CompSysTech
Cesare Valenti
2018 C conf
ICPRAM
Dario Lo Castro, Domenico Tegolo, Cesare Valenti
2018 conf
RTSI
Davide Andrea Guastella, Cesare Valenti
2018 conf
CompSysTech
Antonio Ienna, Michele Migliore, Cesare Valenti
2017 conf
ICAT
Giuseppa Sciortino, Domenico Tegolo, Cesare Valenti
2017 J jnl
Comput. Biol. Medicine
Giuseppa Sciortino, Domenico Tegolo, Cesare Valenti
2017 conf
CISP-BMEI
Dario Lo Castro, Domenico Tegolo, Cesare Valenti
2017 conf
MCPR
Giuseppa Sciortino, Domenico Tegolo, Cesare Valenti
2016 J jnl
J. Vis. Commun. Image Represent.
Davide Guastella, Cesare Valenti
2015 conf
CompSysTech
Emiliano Spera, Domenico Tegolo, Cesare Valenti
2014 J jnl
Comput. Methods Programs Biomed.
Fabio Bellavia, Antonino Cacioppo, Carmen Alina Lupascu, Pietro Messina, Giuseppe Alessandro Scardina, Domenico Tegolo, Cesare Valenti
2014 J jnl
Inf. Sci.
Marco Cipolla, Giosuè Lo Bosco, Filippo Millonzi, Cesare Valenti
2014 J jnl
Image Vis. Comput.
Fabio Bellavia, Domenico Tegolo, Cesare Valenti
2014 conf
EMBC
Luigi Di Rosa, Hadi Hamad, Domenico Tegolo, Cesare Valenti
2013 B conf
CBMS
Anna Anzalone, Giovanni Fusco, Francesco Isgrò, Emanuela Orlandi, Roberto Prevete, Giuseppa Sciortino, Domenico Tegolo, Cesare Valenti
2013 conf
ICIAP (1)
Fabio Bellavia, Cesare Valenti, Carmen Alina Lupascu, Domenico Tegolo
2013 B conf
CBMS
Alessio Adamo, Antonino Cacioppo, Pietro Messina, Giuseppe Alessandro Scardina, Fabio Bellavia, Carmen Alina Lupascu, Domenico Tegolo, Cesare Valenti
2013 B conf
CBMS
Carmen Alina Lupascu, Domenico Tegolo, Fabio Bellavia, Cesare Valenti
2013 J jnl
PLoS Comput. Biol.
Yuguo Yu, Thomas S. McTavish, Michael L. Hines, Gordon M. Shepherd, Cesare Valenti, Michele Migliore
2011 conf
WILF
Marco Cipolla, Giosuè Lo Bosco, Filippo Millonzi, Cesare Valenti
2011 conf
ICIAP (1)
Giulia Albanese, Marco Cipolla, Cesare Valenti
2010 J jnl
Pattern Recognit.
Vito Di Gesù, Giosuè Lo Bosco, Filippo Millonzi, Cesare Valenti
2009 conf
WILF
Marco Cipolla, Fabio Bellavia, Cesare Valenti
2009 C conf
PDCAT
Fabio Bellavia, Marco Cipolla, Domenico Tegolo, Cesare Valenti
2008 C conf
IWCIA
Vito Di Gesù, Giosuè Lo Bosco, Filippo Millonzi, Cesare Valenti
2008 J jnl
Genet. Program. Evolvable Mach.
Cesare Valenti
2008 B conf
ICPR
Fabio Bellavia, Domenico Tegolo, Cesare Valenti
2008 J jnl
Medical Image Anal.
Benedetto Ballarò, Ada Maria Florena, Vito Franco, Domenico Tegolo, Claudio Tripodo, Cesare Valenti
2008 conf
EvoWorkshops
Vito Di Gesù, Giosuè Lo Bosco, Filippo Millonzi, Cesare Valenti
2008 conf
BIOSIGNALS (1)
C. Grimaudo, Domenico Tegolo, Cesare Valenti, F. Bertuzzi
2005 conf
CAMP
Biagio Lenzitti, Domenico Tegolo, Cesare Valenti
2004 conf
PRIS
A. Cepero Díaz, Vito Di Gesù, Cesare Valenti
2004 J jnl
J. Vis. Lang. Comput.
Vito Di Gesù, Cesare Valenti
2003 J jnl
Electron. Notes Discret. Math.
Cesare Valenti
2002 J jnl
Real Time Imaging
Regina Célia Coelho, Vito Di Gesù, Giosuè Lo Bosco, Júlia Sawaki Tanaka, Cesare Valenti
2001 Misc conf
ICIAP
Domenico Tegolo, Cesare Valenti
2001 Misc conf
ICIAP
Regina Célia Coelho, Cesare Valenti, Júlia Sawaki Tanaka, Luciano da Fontoura Costa
2000 conf
DGCI
Vito Di Gesù, Cesare Valenti
1999 conf
Shape, Contour and Grouping in Computer Vision
Antonio Chella, Vito Di Gesù, Ignazio Infantino, Daniela Intravaia, Cesare Valenti
1997 J jnl
Pattern Recognit. Lett.
Vito Di Gesù, Cesare Valenti, Laurent Strinati
1996 B conf
ICPR
Edoardo Ardizzone, Marco La Cascia, Vito Di Gesù, Cesare Valenti
1996 conf
TFCV
Vito Di Gesù, Cesare Valenti
redb/extractors/extractor.py
← Index redb/extractors/extractor.py python
import hashlib
import inspect
from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod
from dataclasses import asdict
from functools import cached_property
from datetime import datetime, timezone
import math
from typing import Counter, List, Optional, Dict, Any, Tuple
from redb import settings
from redb.models.dataclasses import Hash
from .database_exporters import DatabaseExporter, ElasticsearchExporter, ClickHouseExporter, PrintExporter

class Extractor(metaclass=ABCMeta):
    def __init__(
        self,
        filepath: str,
        log: Any,
        exporters: Optional[List[DatabaseExporter]] = None,
        index_prefix: Optional[str] = None,
        source: Optional[str] = None,
        elastic_index: Optional[str] = None,
        known_benign: bool = False,
        known_malicious: bool = False,
        precomputed_hashes: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None,
    ):
        self.log = log
        self.log.debug(f"Creating {self.__class__.__name__}")
        self.filepath = filepath
        self.source = source
        self.exporters = exporters or []
        self.index_prefix = index_prefix if index_prefix else settings.ELASTIC_BINARIES_COLLECTION
        self.elastic_index = self.index_prefix + (elastic_index if elastic_index else "")
        self.known_benign = known_benign
        self.known_malicious = known_malicious

        # Use precomputed hashes if provided (e.g., from machofile, pefile)
        # Otherwise compute them from binary
        if precomputed_hashes:
            self.md5 = precomputed_hashes.get('md5') or precomputed_hashes.get('MD5')
            self.sha1 = precomputed_hashes.get('sha1') or precomputed_hashes.get('SHA1')
            self.sha256 = precomputed_hashes.get('sha256') or precomputed_hashes.get('SHA256')
        else:
            self.md5 = hashlib.md5(self.binary).hexdigest()
            self.sha1 = hashlib.sha1(self.binary).hexdigest()
            self.sha256 = hashlib.sha256(self.binary).hexdigest()
        self.hash = Hash(self.md5, self.sha1, self.sha256)

    @cached_property
    def binary(self):
        with open(self.filepath, "rb") as f:
            data = f.read()
        return data

    @property
    @abstractmethod
    def tag(self):
        pass

    @abstractmethod
    def extract(self):
        """
        this method defines the extracted data
        """

    @staticmethod
    def process_binary_string(s):
        # Remove \x00 padding
        s = s.rstrip(b"\x00")

        # Check if there are any non-printable characters
        has_non_printable = any(byte < 32 or byte > 126 for byte in s)

        if not has_non_printable:
            # If all characters are printable, decode the string
            return s.decode()
        else:
            # If there are non-printable characters, represent them as \xDD
            return "".join(
                [
                    f"\\x{byte:02x}" if byte < 32 or byte > 126 else chr(byte)
                    for byte in s
                ]
            )

    @staticmethod
    def remove_non_utf8(binary_string):
        decoded = b""
        for i in range(len(binary_string)):
            try:
                # Try to decode each byte
                char = binary_string[i : i + 1].decode("utf-8")
                decoded += char.encode("utf-8")
            except UnicodeDecodeError:
                # Skip this byte if it can't be decoded
                continue
        return decoded

    def calculate_entropy(self, data):
        """Calculate the entropy of a chunk of data.
        Based on pefile.SectionStructure.entropy_H.
        """
        # self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)
        if not data:
            return 0.0

        if type(data) == str:
            counts = Counter(data)
            frequencies = ((i / len(data)) for i in counts.values())
            return - sum(f * math.log(f, 2) for f in frequencies)
        else:
            occurences = Counter(bytearray(data))
            entropy = 0
            for x in occurences.values():
                p_x = float(x) / len(data)
                entropy -= p_x * math.log(p_x, 2)
            return entropy

    @abstractmethod
    def prepare_export_data(self, exporter_type: str) -> Tuple[List[Any], List[str], List[str]]:
        """
        Prepare data for specific export type
        Returns:
            Tuple containing:
            - data: List of values to insert
            - column_names: List of column names
            - column_type_names: List of column types
        """
        pass

    def export_data(self):
        """Export data to all configured exporters

        Returns:
            True: Export succeeded
            False: Export failed (actual error)
            None: No data to export (not an error, e.g., no overlay, no signature)
        """
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)
        success = True
        extracted_data = self.extract()

        if extracted_data is None:
            self.log.debug("extract() returned None, skipping export")
            return None  # No data to export, not a failure
            
        for exporter in self.exporters:
            if isinstance(exporter, PrintExporter):
                # For PrintExporter, we pass the extracted data directly
                success &= exporter.export(extracted_data)
            else:
                # Get the data prepared for this specific exporter type
                export_data = self.prepare_export_data(exporter.__class__.__name__)
                
                if export_data is None:
                    self.log.debug(f"prepare_export_data returned None for {exporter.__class__.__name__}")
                    return False
                
                if isinstance(exporter, ElasticsearchExporter):
                    success &= exporter.export(
                        export_data,
                        index=self.elastic_index,
                        tag=self.tag(),
                        hashes=asdict(self.hash),
                        known_benign=self.known_benign,
                        known_malicious=self.known_malicious
                    )
                elif isinstance(exporter, ClickHouseExporter):
                    # For ClickHouse, we need to pass the table name and the prepared data
                    success &= exporter.export(
                        export_data,
                        table=self.get_clickhouse_table(),
                        # Add these parameters explicitly
                        column_names=export_data[1] if isinstance(export_data, tuple) else None,
                        column_type_names=export_data[2] if isinstance(export_data, tuple) else None
                    )
                
        return success

    @abstractmethod
    def get_clickhouse_table(self) -> str:
        """Return the appropriate ClickHouse table name"""
        pass
    # def export_to_elastic(self, list_of_dataclasses, tag=None):
    #     self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

    #     if not isinstance(list_of_dataclasses, list):
    #         self.log.error("Called export_to_elastic wrongly")

    #     now_t = datetime.now(timezone.utc).strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
    #     for dataclass_ in list_of_dataclasses:
    #         if not settings.ELASTIC_CLIENT.ping():
    #             self.log.error("[CONNECTION ERROR] ping to elastic failed")
            
    #         # Convert dataclass to dict and filter out None values
    #         document = {k: v for k, v in asdict(dataclass_).items() if v is not None}
            
    #         if tag:
    #             document["tag"] = [tag, self.tag()]
    #         else:
    #             document["tag"] = self.tag()
    #         hashes = asdict(self.hash)
    #         document |= hashes
    #         document["timestamp_utc"] = now_t
    #         # document["source"] = self.source
    #         document["known_benign"] = self.known_benign
    #         document["known_malicious"] = self.known_malicious

    #         if "_id" in document:
    #             tmp_id = document.pop("_id") + document["sha256"]
    #             _id = hashlib.sha256(tmp_id.encode()).hexdigest()
    #         else:
    #             _id = document["sha256"]

    #         # self.log.debug(f"[DEBUG] about to export {type(document)} {document}")
    #         try:
    #             doc_dump = json.dumps(document)
    #         except TypeError as e:
    #             self.log.error(
    #                 f"Failed export of document. " f"full document: {document}"
    #             )
    #             raise e

    #         # body={"doc": doc_dump,
    #         #       "doc_as_upsert": True  # Create the document if it doesn't exist
    #         # }

    #         # Check if the index exists, and create it if it doesn't
    #         # if not settings.ELASTIC_CLIENT.indices.exists(index=self.elastic_index):
    #         #     settings.ELASTIC_CLIENT.indices.create(index=self.elastic_index)
    #         # pprint(doc_dump) #DEBUG
    #         # print("[DEBUG] _id: " + _id)
    #         # print("[DEBUG] index: " + self.elastic_index)
    #         settings.ELASTIC_CLIENT.index(
    #             index=self.elastic_index, id=_id, document=doc_dump
    #         )