Hannes Holm

47 papers A 1B 2Misc 1Journal 26Unranked 16
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 conf
HICSS
Hannes Holm, Lars Helgeson
2025 J jnl
Comput. Secur.
Hannes Holm, Teodor Sommestad
2023 Misc conf
SEC
Hannes Holm, Jenni Reuben
2023 B conf
IEEE Big Data
Hannes Holm, Erik Hyllienmark
2023 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput.
Hannes Holm
2022 J jnl
Inf. Secur. J. A Glob. Perspect.
Teodor Sommestad, Hannes Holm, Daniel Steinvall
2020 conf
HICSS
Hannes Holm, Ioana Rodhe
2017 J jnl
Inf. Secur. J. A Glob. Perspect.
Teodor Sommestad, Hannes Holm
2017 J jnl
Inf. Comput. Secur.
Hannes Holm, Teodor Sommestad
2016 conf
MILCOM
Hannes Holm, Teodor Sommestad
2015 J jnl
Inf. Softw. Technol.
Hannes Holm, Matus Korman, Mathias Ekstedt
2015 conf
NordSec
Hannes Holm, Martin Karresand, Arne Vidström, Erik Westring
2015 J jnl
Comput. Secur.
Hannes Holm, Khalid Khan Afridi
2015 J jnl
Inf. Comput. Secur.
Waldo Rocha Flores, Hannes Holm, Marcus Nohlberg, Mathias Ekstedt
2015 conf
HICSS
Waldo Rocha Flores, Hannes Holm, Mathias Ekstedt, Marcus Nohlberg
2015 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput.
Hannes Holm, Khurram Shahzad, Markus Buschle, Mathias Ekstedt
2015 A conf
RE
Hannes Holm, Teodor Sommestad, Johan E. Bengtsson
2014
Hannes Holm
2014 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput.
Hannes Holm
2014 conf
EDOC Workshops
Hannes Holm, Waldo Rocha Flores, Marcus Nohlberg, Mathias Ekstedt
2014 J jnl
Softw. Syst. Model.
Hannes Holm, Markus Buschle, Robert Lagerström, Mathias Ekstedt
2014 J jnl
Expert Syst. J. Knowl. Eng.
Hannes Holm, Teodor Sommestad, Mathias Ekstedt, Nicholas Honeth
2014 conf
HICSS
Hannes Holm
2014 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Reliab.
Ulrik Franke, Hannes Holm, Johan König
2014 J jnl
Inf. Manag. Comput. Secur.
Waldo Rocha Flores, Hannes Holm, Gustav Svensson, Göran Ericsson
2013 conf
ISGT Europe
Hannes Holm, Waldo Rocha Flores, Göran Ericsson
2013 conf
HICSS
Hannes Holm, Mathias Ekstedt, Teodor Sommestad
2013 J jnl
Inf. Manag. Comput. Secur.
Hannes Holm, Mathias Ekstedt
2013 J jnl
IEEE Syst. J.
Teodor Sommestad, Mathias Ekstedt, Hannes Holm
2013 conf
EISMC
Waldo Rocha Flores, Hannes Holm, Gustav Svensson, Göran Ericsson
2013 J jnl
J. Strateg. Inf. Syst.
Per Närman, Hannes Holm, Mathias Ekstedt, Nicholas Honeth
2012 conf
TEAR/PRET
Hannes Holm, Mathias Ekstedt
2012 conf
HICSS
Teodor Sommestad, Hannes Holm, Mathias Ekstedt
2012 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput.
Hannes Holm, Mathias Ekstedt, Dennis Andersson
2012 J jnl
Inf. Manag. Comput. Secur.
Teodor Sommestad, Hannes Holm, Mathias Ekstedt
2012 J jnl
Softw. Qual. J.
Robert Lagerström, Liv Marcks von Würtemberg, Hannes Holm, Oscar Luczak
2012 J jnl
Comput. Secur.
Hannes Holm
2012 J jnl
J. Univers. Comput. Sci.
Hannes Holm, Teodor Sommestad, Ulrik Franke, Mathias Ekstedt
2012 J jnl
J. Syst. Softw.
Per Närman, Hannes Holm, David Höök, Nicholas Honeth, Pontus Johnson
2011 conf
CAiSE Forum
Markus Buschle, Hannes Holm, Teodor Sommestad, Mathias Ekstedt, Khurram Shahzad
2011 conf
CAiSE Forum (Selected Papers)
Markus Buschle, Hannes Holm, Teodor Sommestad, Mathias Ekstedt, Khurram Shahzad
2011 J jnl
Inf. Manag. Comput. Secur.
Hannes Holm, Teodor Sommestad, Jonas Almroth, Mats Persson
2011 J jnl
Enterp. Inf. Syst.
Per Närman, Hannes Holm, Pontus Johnson, Johan König, Moustafa Chenine, Mathias Ekstedt
2011 B conf
TrustCom
Teodor Sommestad, Hannes Holm, Mathias Ekstedt
2011 conf
WOSIS
Hannes Holm, Teodor Sommestad, Ulrik Franke, Mathias Ekstedt
2011 J jnl
Inf. Manag. Comput. Secur.
Teodor Sommestad, Mathias Ekstedt, Hannes Holm, Muhammad Afzal
2010 conf
ISGT Europe
Martin Jensen, Cumhur Sel, Ulrik Franke, Hannes Holm, Lars Nordström
redb/extractors/elf_extractors/elf_sections.py
← Index redb/extractors/elf_extractors/elf_sections.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 ELFSection


class ELFSectionExtractor(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_sections = []
        self.elastic_index = self.index_prefix + "-elf_sections"
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

    def _is_empty_result(self, extracted_data) -> bool:
        """
        Override: Empty sections is an ERROR, not a valid empty case.
        A valid ELF file must have sections (at minimum a null section).
        """
        # Always return False - empty sections 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_section_type(self, sh_type_str: str) -> int:
        """Map section type string to enum value."""
        type_map = {
            'SHT_NULL': 0,
            'SHT_PROGBITS': 1,
            'SHT_SYMTAB': 2,
            'SHT_STRTAB': 3,
            'SHT_RELA': 4,
            'SHT_HASH': 5,
            'SHT_DYNAMIC': 6,
            'SHT_NOTE': 7,
            'SHT_NOBITS': 8,
            'SHT_REL': 9,
            'SHT_DYNSYM': 11
        }
        return type_map.get(sh_type_str, 0)

    def _decode_section_flags(self, flags: int) -> List[str]:
        """Decode section flags to human-readable strings."""
        flag_strings = []

        # Common ELF section flags
        if flags & 0x1:  # SHF_WRITE
            flag_strings.append('WRITE')
        if flags & 0x2:  # SHF_ALLOC
            flag_strings.append('ALLOC')
        if flags & 0x4:  # SHF_EXECINSTR
            flag_strings.append('EXECINSTR')
        if flags & 0x10:  # SHF_MERGE
            flag_strings.append('MERGE')
        if flags & 0x20:  # SHF_STRINGS
            flag_strings.append('STRINGS')
        if flags & 0x40:  # SHF_INFO_LINK
            flag_strings.append('INFO_LINK')
        if flags & 0x80:  # SHF_LINK_ORDER
            flag_strings.append('LINK_ORDER')
        if flags & 0x100:  # SHF_OS_NONCONFORMING
            flag_strings.append('OS_NONCONFORMING')
        if flags & 0x200:  # SHF_GROUP
            flag_strings.append('GROUP')
        if flags & 0x400:  # SHF_TLS
            flag_strings.append('TLS')

        return flag_strings if flag_strings else ['NONE']

    def _extract_section_data(self, section) -> Dict:
        """Extract data from a single section."""
        try:
            header = section.header

            # Get section name (handle empty names)
            section_name = section.name if section.name else f"<unnamed_{section.header.get('sh_name', 0)}>"

            # Get section type and map to enum
            sh_type_str = header.get('sh_type', 'SHT_NULL')
            section_type_enum = self._map_section_type(sh_type_str)
            section_type_str = sh_type_str.replace('SHT_', '') if sh_type_str.startswith('SHT_') else sh_type_str

            # Get section properties
            section_flags = header.get('sh_flags', 0)
            section_flags_str = self._decode_section_flags(section_flags)
            section_addr = header.get('sh_addr', 0)
            section_offset = header.get('sh_offset', 0)
            section_size = header.get('sh_size', 0)
            section_link = header.get('sh_link', 0)
            section_info = header.get('sh_info', 0)
            section_addralign = header.get('sh_addralign', 0)
            section_entsize = header.get('sh_entsize', 0)

            # Calculate entropy and hashes for section data
            section_entropy = 0.0
            section_sha256 = ""
            section_md5 = ""

            try:
                if section_size > 0 and section_type_str != 'NOBITS':
                    section_data = section.data()
                    if section_data:
                        # Calculate entropy
                        section_entropy = self._calculate_entropy(section_data)

                        # Calculate hashes
                        section_sha256 = hashlib.sha256(section_data).hexdigest()
                        section_md5 = hashlib.md5(section_data).hexdigest()
            except Exception as e:
                self.log.warning(f"Could not read section '{section_name}' data: {e}")
                section_entropy = 0.0
                section_sha256 = ""
                section_md5 = ""

            return ELFSection(
                section_name=section_name,
                section_type=section_type_enum,
                section_type_str=section_type_str,
                section_flags=section_flags,
                section_flags_str=section_flags_str,
                section_addr=section_addr,
                section_offset=section_offset,
                section_size=section_size,
                section_link=section_link,
                section_info=section_info,
                section_addralign=section_addralign,
                section_entsize=section_entsize,
                section_entropy=section_entropy,
                section_sha256=section_sha256,
                section_md5=section_md5
            )

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting section data: {e}")
            return None

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

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

            def extract_data(elf):
                sections_data = []

                # Iterate through all sections with per-section error handling
                for section_index, section in enumerate(elf.iter_sections()):
                    try:
                        section_data = self._extract_section_data(section)
                        if section_data:
                            sections_data.append(section_data)
                        else:
                            self.log.warning(f"Failed to extract data for section {section_index}")
                    except Exception as e:
                        self.log.warning(f"Error processing section {section_index}: {e}")
                        # Continue processing other sections

                return sections_data

            if not self._is_elf_file():
                return None

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

            self.elf_sections = result
            return self.elf_sections

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

                # Prepare data arrays for all sections
                data = []
                current_time = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
                for section in self.elf_sections:
                    row = [
                        self.sha256,
                        self.md5,
                        self.sha1,
                        section.section_name,
                        section.section_type,
                        section.section_type_str,
                        section.section_flags,
                        section.section_flags_str,
                        section.section_addr,
                        section.section_offset,
                        section.section_size,
                        section.section_link,
                        section.section_info,
                        section.section_addralign,
                        section.section_entsize,
                        section.section_entropy,
                        section.section_sha256,
                        section.section_md5,
                        current_time
                    ]
                    data.append(row)

                column_names = [
                    'sha256', 'md5', 'sha1',
                    'section_name', 'section_type', 'section_type_str',
                    'section_flags', 'section_flags_str',
                    'section_addr', 'section_offset', 'section_size',
                    'section_link', 'section_info', 'section_addralign', 'section_entsize',
                    'section_entropy', 'section_sha256', 'section_md5',
                    'analysis_date'
                ]

                column_type_names = [
                    'FixedString(64)', 'FixedString(32)', 'FixedString(40)',
                    'LowCardinality(String)',
                    "Enum8('NULL'=0, 'PROGBITS'=1, 'SYMTAB'=2, 'STRTAB'=3, 'RELA'=4, 'HASH'=5, 'DYNAMIC'=6, 'NOTE'=7, 'NOBITS'=8, 'REL'=9, 'DYNSYM'=11)",
                    'LowCardinality(String)',
                    'UInt64',
                    'Array(LowCardinality(String))',
                    'UInt64', 'UInt64', 'UInt64',
                    'UInt32', 'UInt32', '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_sections"