Ibtissem Ben Makhlouf

18 papers Journal 1Unranked 16
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2020 conf
CVPR Workshops
Christian S. Pilz, Ibtissem Ben Makhlouf, Ute Habel, Steffen Leonhardt
2017 conf
NFM
Stefan Schupp, Erika Ábrahám, Ibtissem Ben Makhlouf, Stefan Kowalewski
2016
Ibtissem Ben Makhlouf
2016 conf
ARCH@CPSWeek
Ibtissem Ben Makhlouf, Norman Hansen, Stefan Kowalewski
2015 conf
NFM
Xin Chen, Stefan Schupp, Ibtissem Ben Makhlouf, Erika Ábrahám, Goran Frehse, Stefan Kowalewski
2015 conf
ADHS
Ibtissem Ben Makhlouf, Jonathan Gan, Stefan Kowalewski
2015 conf
CyPhy
Stefan Schupp, Erika Ábrahám, Xin Chen, Ibtissem Ben Makhlouf, Goran Frehse, Sriram Sankaranarayanan, Stefan Kowalewski
2014 conf
ARCH@CPSWeek
Ibtissem Ben Makhlouf, Stefan Kowalewski
2014 conf
ARCH@CPSWeek
Ibtissem Ben Makhlouf, Stefan Kowalewski
2013 conf
ECC
Ibtissem Ben Makhlouf, Paul Hänsch, Stefan Kowalewski
2013 conf
MED
Ibtissem Ben Makhlouf, Hilal Diab, Stefan Kowalewski
2012 conf
ITSC
Hilal Diab, Ibtissem Ben Makhlouf, Stefan Kowalewski
2012 conf
ADHS
Ibtissem Ben Makhlouf, Hilal Diab, Stefan Kowalewski
2011 conf
Hybrid Autonomous Systems@ETAPS
Paul Hänsch, Hilal Diab, Ibtissem Ben Makhlouf, Stefan Kowalewski
2010 conf
ITSC
Hilal Diab, Martín G. Chávez Grunewald, Ibtissem Ben Makhlouf, Dirk Abel, Stefan Kowalewski
2010 J jnl
Autom.
Martín Guillermo, Chávez Grunewald, Ibtissem Ben Makhlouf, Hilal Diab, Vicente A. Mut, Stefan Kowalewski, Dirk Abel
2009 conf
ADHS
Martín Guillermo, Ibtissem Ben Makhlouf, Stefan Kowalewski, Chávez Grunewald, Dirk Abel
2006 conf
ADHS
Ibtissem Ben Makhlouf, Stefan Kowalewski
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"