Haiyong Zeng

36 papers B 9C 1Journal 18Unranked 8
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Netw. Sci. Eng.
Haiyong Zeng, Xuan Lu, Yuanyan Huang, Shoulin Huang, Shaohan Feng, Xu (Judy) Zhu, Jie Cao
2025 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol.
Hanyuan Cao, Haiyong Zeng, Xu Zhu, Qi Yang, Naixing Wu
2025 J jnl
IEEE Wirel. Commun. Lett.
Zhide Zhang, Zhongxiang Wei, Zhixiang Xu, Haiyong Zeng, Xu Zhu
2025 J jnl
Entropy
Yuanyan Huang, Jingjing Su, Xuan Lu, Shoulin Huang, Hongyan Zhu, Haiyong Zeng
2025 B conf
GLOBECOM
Yanfeng Zhang, Xu Zhu, Jinkai Zheng, Weiwei Yang, Xianhua Yu, Haiyong Zeng, Yujie Liu, Yong Liang Guan
2025 J jnl
Entropy
Long Tang, Fangyan Li, Zichao Yu, Haiyong Zeng
2025 J jnl
IEEE Internet Things J.
Haiyong Zeng, Rui Zhang, Xu Zhu, Zhongxiang Wei, Yufei Jiang, Sumei Sun, Fu-Chun Zheng, Bin Cao
2025 B conf
GLOBECOM
Haiyong Zeng, Long Tang, Xu Zhu, Zhongxiang Wei, Yanfeng Zhang
2024 B conf
IWCMC
Dongbo Geng, Zhongxiang Wei, Haiyong Zeng
2024 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun.
Baiqi Li, Haiyong Zeng, Xu Zhu, Yufei Jiang, Yuanchen Wang
2024 J jnl
IEEE Internet Things J.
Haiyong Zeng, Rui Zhang, Xu Zhu, Jie Cao, Yufei Jiang, Fu-Chun Zheng, Peng Dai
2024 B conf
WCNC
Haiyong Zeng, Xu Zhu, Rui Zhang, Yufei Jiang, Zhongxiang Wei, Chen Wang
2024 conf
ICC
Haiyong Zeng, Rui Zhang, Xu Zhu, Yufei Jiang, Zhongxiang Wei, Fu-Chun Zheng
2023 conf
VTC Fall
Haiyong Zeng, Rui Zhang, Xu Zhu, Yufei Jiang, Zhongxiang Wei, Fu-Chun Zheng, Sumei Sun
2023 conf
VTC Fall
Haiyong Zeng, Rui Zhang, Xu Zhu, Yufei Jiang, Zhongxiang Wei, Fu-Chun Zheng, Sumei Sun
2022 J jnl
IEEE Wirel. Commun. Lett.
Zhongxiang Wei, Christos Masouros, Ping Wang, Xu Zhu, Haiyong Zeng, Hong Tang, Yan Zheng
2022 conf
VTC Fall
Wenjun Hou, Xu Zhu, Jie Cao, Haiyong Zeng, Yufei Jiang
2022 B conf
WCNC
Baiqi Li, Xu Zhu, Yufei Jiang, Haiyong Zeng, Yuanchen Wang
2022 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol.
Zhihao Dong, Xu Zhu, Yufei Jiang, Haiyong Zeng, Zhongxiang Wei, Fu-Chun Zheng, Ka-Cheong Leung
2022 conf
VTC Fall
Zhongrui Wang, Xu Zhu, Yufei Jiang, Haiyong Zeng, Baiqi Li
2022 J jnl
IEEE Wirel. Commun. Lett.
Haiyong Zeng, Xu Zhu, Yufei Jiang, Zhongxiang Wei, Lizhen Chen
2022 J jnl
IEEE Veh. Technol. Mag.
Haiyong Zeng, Jingjing Wang, Zhongxiang Wei, Xu Zhu, Yufei Jiang, Yuanchen Wang, Christos Masouros
2022 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Commun.
Haiyong Zeng, Xu Zhu, Yufei Jiang, Zhongxiang Wei, Sumei Sun, Xiaogang Xiong
2021 B conf
GLOBECOM
Chen Wang, Xu Zhu, Yufei Jiang, Haiyong Zeng, Fu-Chun Zheng
2021 B conf
WCNC
Zhihao Dong, Xu Zhu, Yufei Jiang, Haiyong Zeng
2020 B conf
GLOBECOM
Haiyong Zeng, Xu Zhu, Yufei Jiang, Zhongxiang Wei, Yong Hao
2020 conf
ICC
Haiyong Zeng, Xu Zhu, Yufei Jiang, Zhongxiang Wei
2019 J jnl
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Signal Process.
Haiyong Zeng, Xu Zhu, Yufei Jiang, Zhongxiang Wei, Tong Wang
2019 J jnl
BMC Bioinform.
Yulian Jiao, Qiutao Hu, Yan Zhu, Longfei Zhu, Tengfei Ma, Haiyong Zeng, Qiaolu Zang, Xuan Li, Xinchun Lin
2019 conf
ICC
Haiyong Zeng, Xu Zhu, Yufei Jiang, Zhongxiang Wei
2018 C conf
ICCC
Yan Zuo, Xu Zhu, Yufei Jiang, Zhongxiang Wei, Haiyong Zeng, Tong Wang
2018 B conf
GLOBECOM
Haiyong Zeng, Xu Zhu, Yufei Jiang, Yan Zuo, Zhongxiang Wei, Tong Wang
2018 conf
ICIC (1)
Yulian Jiao, Qiutao Hu, Yan Zhu, Longfei Zhu, Tengfei Ma, Haiyong Zeng, Qiaolu Zang, Xinchun Lin, Xuan Li
2017 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Signal Process.
Heng Wang, Haiyong Zeng, Min Li, Baoguo Wang, Ping Wang
2016 J jnl
IEEE Commun. Lett.
Heng Wang, Haiyong Zeng, Ping Wang
2015 J jnl
IEEE Signal Process. Lett.
Heng Wang, Haiyong Zeng, Ping Wang
redb/extractors/elf_extractor.py
← Index redb/extractors/elf_extractor.py python
import logging
from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod
import inspect

from elftools.elf.elffile import ELFFile
from elftools.common.exceptions import ELFError

from redb.extractors.extractor import Extractor

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)


@abstractmethod
class ELFExtractor(Extractor, metaclass=ABCMeta):

    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
        )
        # Store ELF object if provided, otherwise we'll create it per-operation for security
        self._provided_elf = elf
        self._elf_file_valid = None  # Cache validity check

    def _with_elf_file(self, operation):
        """Safely execute an operation with an ELF file using context manager.

        Args:
            operation: A callable that takes an ELFFile object and returns a result

        Returns:
            The result of the operation, or None if an error occurred
        """
        if self._provided_elf:
            try:
                return operation(self._provided_elf)
            except ELFError as e:
                if "String Table not found" in str(e):
                    self.log.warning(f"String table missing in ELF {self.hash.sha256}: {e}")
                    return None
                else:
                    self.log.error(f"ELF format error {self.hash.sha256} Full error: {e}")
                    return None
            except Exception as e:
                self.log.error(f"Error processing ELF file {self.hash.sha256} Full error: {e}")
                return None

        try:
            with open(self.filepath, 'rb') as f:
                elf = ELFFile(f)
                if not elf:
                    raise ELFError("Empty file?")
                return operation(elf)
        except ELFError as e:
            if "String Table not found" in str(e):
                self.log.warning(f"String table missing in ELF {self.hash.sha256}: {e}")
                return None
            else:
                self.log.error(f"ELF format error {self.hash.sha256} Full error: {e}")
                return None
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error reading ELF file {self.hash.sha256} Full error: {e}")
            return None

    def _is_elf_file(self):
        """Check if the file is a valid ELF binary."""
        if self._elf_file_valid is not None:
            return self._elf_file_valid

        def check_elf_validity(elf):
            # pyelftools ELFFile object existing means it's valid ELF
            # Just check that we can access the header
            header = elf.header
            return header is not None

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_elf_validity)
            self._elf_file_valid = bool(result)
            return self._elf_file_valid
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking ELF file: {e}")
            self._elf_file_valid = False
            return False

    def _is_64bit(self):
        """Check if the ELF binary is 64-bit."""
        def check_64bit(elf):
            return elf.header.get('e_ident', {}).get('EI_CLASS') == 'ELFCLASS64'

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_64bit)
            return bool(result)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking ELF bitness: {e}")
            return False

    def _is_stripped(self):
        """Check if the ELF binary is stripped (no symbol table)."""
        def check_stripped(elf):
            # Look for symbol table sections
            for section in elf.iter_sections():
                if section.name in ['.symtab', '.strtab']:
                    return False
            return True

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_stripped)
            return result if result is not None else True
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking if ELF is stripped: {e}")
            return True

    def _has_debug_info(self):
        """Check if the ELF binary contains debug information."""
        def check_debug_info(elf):
            # Look for debug sections
            debug_sections = ['.debug_info', '.debug_line', '.debug_str', '.debug_abbrev']
            for section in elf.iter_sections():
                if section.name in debug_sections:
                    return True
            return False

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_debug_info)
            return bool(result)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking debug info: {e}")
            return False

    def _get_architecture(self):
        """Get the architecture of the ELF binary."""
        def get_arch(elf):
            machine = elf.header.get('e_machine', 'EM_NONE')

            # Map common machine types to readable names
            arch_map = {
                'EM_386': 'x86',
                'EM_X86_64': 'x86_64',
                'EM_ARM': 'ARM',
                'EM_AARCH64': 'ARM64',
                'EM_MIPS': 'MIPS',
                'EM_PPC': 'PowerPC',
                'EM_PPC64': 'PowerPC64',
                'EM_SPARC': 'SPARC',
                'EM_RISCV': 'RISC-V'
            }

            return arch_map.get(machine, machine)

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(get_arch)
            return result if result is not None else "unknown"
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting architecture: {e}")
            return "unknown"

    def _get_endianness(self):
        """Get the endianness of the ELF binary."""
        def get_endian(elf):
            data_encoding = elf.header.get('e_ident', {}).get('EI_DATA')
            if data_encoding == 'ELFDATA2LSB':
                return "little"
            elif data_encoding == 'ELFDATA2MSB':
                return "big"
            return "unknown"

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(get_endian)
            return result if result is not None else "unknown"
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting endianness: {e}")
            return "unknown"

    def _get_file_type(self):
        """Get the file type of the ELF binary."""
        def get_file_type(elf):
            etype = elf.header.get('e_type', 'ET_NONE')

            # Map file types to readable names
            type_map = {
                'ET_NONE': 'none',
                'ET_REL': 'relocatable',
                'ET_EXEC': 'executable',
                'ET_DYN': 'shared_object',
                'ET_CORE': 'core_dump'
            }

            return type_map.get(etype, etype)

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(get_file_type)
            return result if result is not None else "unknown"
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting file type: {e}")
            return "unknown"

    def _is_pie(self):
        """Check if the ELF binary is position-independent executable."""
        def check_pie(elf):
            # PIE binaries are typically ET_DYN type
            etype = elf.header.get('e_type', 'ET_NONE')
            if etype == 'ET_DYN':
                # Check if it has an entry point (executable) vs library
                entry_point = elf.header.get('e_entry', 0)
                return entry_point > 0
            return False

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_pie)
            return bool(result)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking PIE: {e}")
            return False

    def _has_stack_protection(self):
        """Check if the binary has stack protection (canaries)."""
        def check_stack_protection(elf):
            # Look for stack protection symbols
            stack_symbols = ['__stack_chk_fail', '__stack_chk_guard']

            for section in elf.iter_sections():
                if hasattr(section, 'iter_symbols'):
                    for symbol in section.iter_symbols():
                        if symbol.name in stack_symbols:
                            return True
            return False

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_stack_protection)
            return bool(result)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking stack protection: {e}")
            return False

    def _has_nx_bit(self):
        """Check if the binary has NX bit (non-executable stack)."""
        def check_nx_bit(elf):
            # Look for GNU_STACK segment
            for segment in elf.iter_segments():
                if segment.header.get('p_type') == 'PT_GNU_STACK':
                    flags = segment.header.get('p_flags', 0)
                    # Check if execute flag is NOT set (NX enabled)
                    return not (flags & 0x1)  # PF_X = 0x1
            return False

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_nx_bit)
            return bool(result)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking NX bit: {e}")
            return False

    def _has_relro(self):
        """Check if the binary has RELRO (Relocation Read-Only)."""
        def check_relro(elf):
            # Look for GNU_RELRO segment
            for segment in elf.iter_segments():
                if segment.header.get('p_type') == 'PT_GNU_RELRO':
                    return True
            return False

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_relro)
            return bool(result)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking RELRO: {e}")
            return False

    def _get_build_id(self):
        """Extract build ID from notes section."""
        def get_build_id(elf):
            # Look for build ID in notes sections
            for section in elf.iter_sections():
                if section.name == '.note.gnu.build-id':
                    for note in section.iter_notes():
                        if note['n_type'] == 'NT_GNU_BUILD_ID':
                            # Convert bytes to hex string
                            build_id = note['n_desc']
                            if isinstance(build_id, bytes):
                                return build_id.hex()
                            return str(build_id)
            return None

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(get_build_id)
            return result
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting build ID: {e}")
            return None

    def _count_sections(self):
        """Count the number of sections in the ELF file."""
        def count_sections(elf):
            return elf.header.get('e_shnum', 0)

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(count_sections)
            return result if result is not None else 0
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error counting sections: {e}")
            return 0

    def _count_segments(self):
        """Count the number of segments (program headers) in the ELF file."""
        def count_segments(elf):
            return elf.header.get('e_phnum', 0)

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(count_segments)
            return result if result is not None else 0
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error counting segments: {e}")
            return 0

    def _count_symbols(self):
        """Count the total number of symbols in symbol tables."""
        def count_symbols(elf):
            symbol_count = 0
            for section in elf.iter_sections():
                if hasattr(section, 'iter_symbols'):
                    symbol_count += section.num_symbols()
            return symbol_count

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(count_symbols)
            return result if result is not None else 0
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error counting symbols: {e}")
            return 0

    def _get_dependencies(self):
        """Get list of dynamic dependencies."""
        def get_dependencies(elf):
            dependencies = []
            dynamic_section = elf.get_section_by_name('.dynamic')
            if dynamic_section:
                for tag in dynamic_section.iter_tags():
                    if tag.entry.d_tag == 'DT_NEEDED':
                        dependencies.append(tag.needed)
            return dependencies

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(get_dependencies)
            return result if result is not None else []
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting dependencies: {e}")
            return []