Ignazio Passero

32 papers B 6C 1Journal 14Unranked 11
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2022 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Ind. Informatics
Lucia Cascone, Michele Nappi, Fabio Narducci, Ignazio Passero
2021 J jnl
Future Gener. Comput. Syst.
Andrea F. Abate, Lucia Cascone, Michele Nappi, Fabio Narducci, Ignazio Passero
2021 J jnl
Pattern Recognit. Lett.
Carmen Bisogni, Lucia Cascone, Aniello Castiglione, Ignazio Passero
2021 J jnl
ACM Trans. Internet Techn.
Lucia Cascone, Aniello Castiglione, Michele Nappi, Fabio Narducci, Ignazio Passero
2020 J jnl
IEEE Access
Andrea F. Abate, Paola Barra, Carmen Bisogni, Lucia Cascone, Ignazio Passero
2020 B conf
AVI
Andrea F. Abate, Aniello Castiglione, Michele Nappi, Ignazio Passero
2020 J jnl
Pattern Recognit. Lett.
Xian-Liang Wang, Jiao Du, Guoxia Xu, Ignazio Passero, Hao Wang, Yu-Feng Yu
2014 J jnl
Int. J. Distance Educ. Technol.
Telmo Zarraonandia, Rita Francese, Ignazio Passero, Paloma Díaz, Genoveffa Tortora
2013 J jnl
Int. J. Distance Educ. Technol.
Stefania Cuccurullo, Rita Francese, Ignazio Passero, Genoveffa Tortora
2012 J jnl
Int. J. Distance Educ. Technol.
Andrea De Lucia, Rita Francese, Ignazio Passero, Genoveffa Tortora
2012 B conf
AVI
Stefania Cuccurullo, Rita Francese, Sharefa Murad, Ignazio Passero, Maurizio Tucci
2012 B conf
AVI
Rita Francese, Ignazio Passero, Genoveffa Tortora
2011 conf
Eurographics Italian Chapter Conference
Rita Francese, Ignazio Passero, Telmo Zarraonandia
2011 J jnl
Int. J. Online Eng.
Sharefa Murad, Ignazio Passero, Rita Francese, Genoveffa Tortora
2011 J jnl
Br. J. Educ. Technol.
Telmo Zarraonandia, Rita Francese, Ignazio Passero, Paloma Díaz, Genny Tortora
2011 conf
DMS
Telmo Zarraonandia, Rita Francese, Ignazio Passero, Ignacio Aedo, Genny Tortora, Paloma Díaz
2011 conf
DMS
Ida Bifulco, Rita Francese, Marco Lettieri, Luca Liscio, Ignazio Passero, Genny Tortora
2011 conf
PROFES Workshops
Pietro D'Ambrosio, Rita Francese, Antonio Marino, Ignazio Passero, Genny Tortora
2010 C conf
ICCE
Stefania Cuccurullo, Rita Francese, Ignazio Passero, Genoveffa Tortora
2009 J jnl
Softw. Pract. Exp.
Andrea De Lucia, Rita Francese, Ignazio Passero, Genoveffa Tortora
2009 J jnl
Comput. Educ.
Andrea De Lucia, Rita Francese, Ignazio Passero, Genoveffa Tortora
2008 conf
DMS
Andrea De Lucia, Fausto Fasano, Rita Francese, Ignazio Passero
2008 J jnl
Softw. Pract. Exp.
Andrea De Lucia, Rita Francese, Ignazio Passero, Genoveffa Tortora
2008 B conf
AVI
Andrea De Lucia, Rita Francese, Ignazio Passero, Genoveffa Tortora
2008 B conf
ICALT
Andrea De Lucia, Rita Francese, Ignazio Passero, Genoveffa Tortora
2008 conf
DMS
Andrea De Lucia, Rita Francese, Ignazio Passero, Genoveffa Tortora
2008 conf
Eclipse-IT
Andrea De Lucia, Rita Francese, Ignazio Passero, Genoveffa Tortora
2008 conf
DMS
Ignazio Passero, Luciano Ragazzi
2007 conf
ICEIS (Selected Papers)
Andrea De Lucia, Rita Francese, Ignazio Passero, Genoveffa Tortora
2007 conf
ICEIS (4)
Andrea De Lucia, Rita Francese, Ignazio Passero, Genoveffa Tortora
2006 conf
ICEIS (4)
Andrea De Lucia, Rita Francese, Massimiliano Giordano, Ignazio Passero, Genoveffa Tortora
2006 B conf
AVI
Andrea De Lucia, Rita Francese, Ignazio Passero, Genoveffa Tortora
redb/extractors/elf_extractors/elf_exports.py
← Index redb/extractors/elf_extractors/elf_exports.py python
import inspect
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from typing import Any, List, Set

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 ELFExport


class ELFExportExtractor(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_exports = None
        self.elastic_index = self.index_prefix + "-elf_exports"
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

    def _get_exported_functions_from_symbols(self, elf) -> Set[str]:
        """Extract exported functions from symbol tables."""
        exported_functions = set()

        try:
            # Check both static (.symtab) and dynamic (.dynsym) symbol tables
            symbol_sections = ['.symtab', '.dynsym']

            for section_name in symbol_sections:
                section = elf.get_section_by_name(section_name)
                if not section or not hasattr(section, 'iter_symbols'):
                    continue

                for symbol in section.iter_symbols():
                    # Check if symbol is exported (defined and globally visible)
                    if (symbol.name and
                        symbol.entry.get('st_shndx', 0) != 'SHN_UNDEF' and  # Not undefined
                        symbol.entry.get('st_info', {}).get('bind') in ['STB_GLOBAL', 'STB_WEAK'] and  # Global or weak binding
                        symbol.entry.get('st_info', {}).get('type') in ['STT_FUNC', 'STT_OBJECT']):  # Function or object

                        # Additional checks for meaningful exports
                        if (symbol.entry.get('st_value', 0) > 0 or  # Has a value
                            symbol.entry.get('st_size', 0) > 0):    # Has a size
                            exported_functions.add(symbol.name)

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting exported functions from symbols: {e}")

        return exported_functions

    def _get_exported_functions_from_dynamic_section(self, elf) -> Set[str]:
        """Extract exported functions information from dynamic section."""
        exported_functions = set()

        try:
            # Get the dynamic section
            dynamic_section = elf.get_section_by_name('.dynamic')
            if not dynamic_section:
                return exported_functions

            # Look for version definition sections that might indicate exports
            # This is complementary to symbol table analysis
            for tag in dynamic_section.iter_tags():
                if tag.entry.d_tag == 'DT_SONAME':
                    # If it has a SONAME, it's likely a shared library with exports
                    # The actual exports are still found in symbol tables
                    pass

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting exports from dynamic section: {e}")

        return exported_functions

    def _filter_meaningful_exports(self, exports: Set[str]) -> Set[str]:
        """Filter out compiler-generated and internal symbols to focus on meaningful exports."""
        filtered_exports = set()

        # Common patterns to exclude (compiler-generated, internal symbols)
        exclude_patterns = [
            '_start',
            '_init',
            '_fini',
            '__libc_',
            '__gmon_start__',
            '_IO_stdin_used',
            '__data_start',
            '__bss_start',
            '_edata',
            '_end',
            '__TMC_END__',
            '_ITM_deregisterTMCloneTable',
            '_ITM_registerTMCloneTable',
            '__cxa_finalize',
            '__gxx_personality_v0',
            '_Jv_RegisterClasses'
        ]

        for export in exports:
            # Skip empty or very short names
            if not export or len(export) < 2:
                continue

            # Skip symbols that match exclude patterns
            skip = False
            for pattern in exclude_patterns:
                if export.startswith(pattern):
                    skip = True
                    break

            # Skip symbols that look like internal mangled names (but keep reasonable C++ names)
            if export.startswith('_Z') and len(export) > 50:  # Very long mangled names
                skip = True

            if not skip:
                filtered_exports.add(export)

        return filtered_exports

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

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

            def extract_data(elf):
                # Extract exported functions from multiple sources
                exported_functions = set()

                # From symbol tables (primary source)
                symbol_exports = self._get_exported_functions_from_symbols(elf)
                exported_functions.update(symbol_exports)

                # From dynamic section (supplementary)
                dynamic_exports = self._get_exported_functions_from_dynamic_section(elf)
                exported_functions.update(dynamic_exports)

                # Filter out compiler-generated and internal symbols
                meaningful_exports = self._filter_meaningful_exports(exported_functions)

                # Convert to sorted list for consistent output
                export_functions_list = sorted(list(meaningful_exports))

                # Return ELFExport dataclass
                return ELFExport(
                    elf_exports_total=len(export_functions_list),
                    elf_export_functions=export_functions_list,
                )

            if not self._is_elf_file():
                return None

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

            self.elf_exports = result
            return self.elf_exports

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

                # Prepare data array
                data = [[
                    self.sha256,
                    self.md5,
                    self.sha1,
                    self.elf_exports.elf_exports_total,
                    self.elf_exports.elf_export_functions,
                    datetime.now(timezone.utc)
                ]]

                column_names = [
                    'sha256', 'md5', 'sha1',
                    'elf_exports_total',
                    'elf_export_functions',
                    'analysis_date'
                ]

                if not data:
                    return None

                column_type_names = [
                    'FixedString(64)', 'FixedString(32)', 'FixedString(40)',
                    'UInt32',
                    'Array(LowCardinality(String))',
                    'DateTime64(3, \'UTC\')'
                ]

                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_exports"