Chance Tarver

28 papers B 1C 3Misc 5Journal 9Unranked 10
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 conf
OpenRan@MobiCom
Russell Ford, Hao Chen, Pranav Madadi, Mandar Kulkarni, Xiaochuan Ma, Daoud Burghal, Guanbo Chen, Yeqing Hu, Chance Tarver, Panagiotis Skrimponis, Yu Zhang, Yan Xin, Jianzhong Zhang, Shubham Khunteta, Yeswanth Reddy Guddeti, Ashok Kumar Reddy Chavva, Mahantesh Kothiwale, Davide Villa
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Russell Ford, Hao Chen, Pranav Madadi, Mandar Kulkarni, Xiaochuan Ma, Daoud Burghal, Guanbo Chen, Yeqing Hu, Chance Tarver, Panagiotis Skrimponis, Vitali Loseu, Yu Zhang, Yan Xin, Yang Li, Jianzhong Zhang, Shubham Khunteta, Yeswanth Reddy Guddeti, Ashok Kumar Reddy Chavva, Mahantesh Kothiwale, Davide Villa
2023 B conf
WCNC
Hyoungju Ji, Younsun Kim, Bin Yu, Qi Xiong, Shadi Abu-Surra, Chance Tarver, Kyungjun Choi, Jaeyeon Shim, Gary Xu
2022 conf
ICC Workshops
Qiaoyang Ye, Caleb Lo, Jeongho Jeon, Chance Tarver, Matthew Jordan Tonnemacher, Jeongho Yeo, Joonyoung Cho, Gary Xu, Younsun Kim, Jianzhong Zhang
2021 conf
ICC Workshops
Hyoungju Ji, Younsun Kim, Taehyoung Kim, Khurram Muhammad, Chance Tarver, Matthew Jordan Tonnemacher, Jinyoung Oh, Bin Yu, Gary Xu
2021 J jnl
IEEE Access
Hyoungju Ji, Younsun Kim, Khurram Muhammad, Chance Tarver, Matthew Jordan Tonnemacher, Taehyoung Kim, Jinyoung Oh, Bin Yu, Gary Xu, Juho Lee
2021 J jnl
IEEE Open J. Circuits Syst.
Chance Tarver, Matthew Jordan Tonnemacher, Hao Chen, Jianzhong Zhang, Joseph R. Cavallaro
2021 C conf
ISCAS
Chance Tarver, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming, Christoph Studer, Joseph R. Cavallaro
2021 conf
ACSCC
Chance Tarver, Alexios Balalsoukas-Slimining, Christoph Studer, Joseph R. Cavallaro
2021 conf
VTC Fall
Hyoungju Ji, Younsun Kim, Khurram Muhammad, Chance Tarver, Matthew Jordan Tonnemacher, Seongmok Lim, Jaeyeon Shim, Jaemin Kim, Bin Yu, Gary Xu
2020 C conf
ISCAS
Chance Tarver, Matthew Jordan Tonnemacher, Hao Chen, Jianzhong Charlie Zhang, Joseph R. Cavallaro
2020 conf
SiPS
Chance Tarver, Arav Singhal, Joseph R. Cavallaro
2020 Misc conf
ACSSC
Chance Tarver, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming, Joseph R. Cavallaro
2019 Misc conf
ACSSC
Kaipeng Li, James McNaney, Chance Tarver, Oscar Castañeda, Charles Jeon, Joseph R. Cavallaro, Christoph Studer
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Kaipeng Li, James McNaney, Chance Tarver, Oscar Castañeda, Charles Jeon, Joseph R. Cavallaro, Christoph Studer
2019 conf
SiPS
Chance Tarver, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming, Joseph R. Cavallaro
2019 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Cogn. Commun. Netw.
Chance Tarver, Matthew Jordan Tonnemacher, Vikram Chandrasekhar, Hao Chen, Boon Loong Ng, Jianzhong Zhang, Joseph R. Cavallaro, Joseph Camp
2019 conf
DySPAN
Matthew Jordan Tonnemacher, Chance Tarver, Joseph Cavallar, Joseph Camp
2019 Misc conf
ACSSC
Chance Tarver, Liwen Jiang, Aryan Sefidi, Joseph R. Cavallaro
2018 J jnl
J. Signal Process. Syst.
Chance Tarver, Mahmoud Abdelaziz, Lauri Anttila, Mikko Valkama, Joseph R. Cavallaro
2018 conf
DySPAN
Matthew Jordan Tonnemacher, Chance Tarver, Vikram Chandrasekhar, Hao Chen, Pengda Huang, Boon Loong Ng, Jianzhong Charlie Zhang, Joseph R. Cavallaro, Joseph Camp
2017 Misc conf
ACSSC
Chance Tarver, Joseph R. Cavallaro
2017 C conf
ISCAS
Chance Tarver, Mahmoud Abdelaziz, Lauri Anttila, Joseph R. Cavallaro
2017 J jnl
J. Signal Process. Syst.
Kaipeng Li, Amanullah Ghazi, Chance Tarver, Jani Boutellier, Mahmoud Abdelaziz, Lauri Anttila, Markku J. Juntti, Mikko Valkama, Joseph R. Cavallaro
2016 J jnl
CoRR
Mahmoud Abdelaziz, Lauri Anttila, Chance Tarver, Kaipeng Li, Joseph R. Cavallaro, Mikko Valkama
2016 conf
SiPS
Chance Tarver, Mahmoud Abdelaziz, Lauri Anttila, Mikko Valkama, Joseph R. Cavallaro
2016 J jnl
CoRR
Kaipeng Li, Amanullah Ghazi, Chance Tarver, Jani Boutellier, Mahmoud Abdelaziz, Lauri Anttila, Markku J. Juntti, Mikko Valkama, Joseph R. Cavallaro
2015 Misc conf
ACSSC
Mahmoud Abdelaziz, Chance Tarver, Kaipeng Li, Lauri Anttila, Raul Martinez, Mikko Valkama, Joseph R. Cavallaro
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
    #         )