Ion Turcanu

56 papers A* 1A 2B 2C 2Journal 17Unranked 31
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
IEEE Open J. Commun. Soc.
Ayat Zaki Hindi, Paola Soto, Germán Castellanos, Touhid Hossain Pritom, Gaetano Volpe, Iskander Zellagui, Burkhard Hensel, Julian Jimenez, Michele Marvulli, Luís Santos, Ayse Sayin, Jean-Sébastien Sottet, Wasim A. Ali, Inès El Korbi, Ion Turcanu, Andrey Belogaev, André Duarte, Ultan Kelly, Sumit Kumar, Georgy Myagkov, Stephen Parker, Mario Franke, Shajjad Hossain, Rajarshi Sanyal, Nida Shafi, Christoph Sommer, Miguel Camelo, Julien Baudouin, Régis Decorme, Maria Pia Fanti, Ramin Fuladi, Chris Murphy, Ana Pereira, Sidi Mohammed Senouci, Simon Pryor, Sébastien Faye
2025 conf
CSCN
Jean-Sébastien Sottet, Ayat Zaki Hindi, Ion Turcanu, Sébastien Faye
2025 conf
EuCNC/6G Summit
Sébastien Faye, Paola Soto, Gaetano Volpe, Ayat Zaki Hindi, Burkhard Hensel, Germán Castellanos, Ion Turcanu, Christoph Sommer, Sidi Mohammed Senouci, Andrey Belogaev, Miguel Camelo
2025 B conf
GLOBECOM
Ayat Zaki Hindi, Jean-Sébastien Sottet, Sumit Kumar, Ion Turcanu, Sébastien Faye
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Arina Caraus, Alessio Buscemi, Sumit Kumar, Ion Turcanu
2025 C conf
DS-RT
Darinela Andronovici, Giuseppe Avino, Mario Franke, Damien Nicolas, Ion Turcanu, Christoph Sommer
2025 conf
VNC
Alexey Rolich, Mert Yildiz, Ion Turcanu, Alexey Vinel, Andrea Baiocchi
2025 J jnl
IEEE Access
Alexey Rolich, Mert Yildiz, Ion Turcanu, Alexey Vinel, Andrea Baiocchi
2025 conf
MT-ITS
Ion Turcanu, Oussema Gharsallaoui, Patrick Gratz, Maxime Poncin, German Castignani
2025 conf
INFOCOM WKSHPS
Sumit Kumar, Jérôme Polesel, Olivier Bouton, Ion Turcanu
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Sumit Kumar, Juan Carlos Estrada-Jimenez, Ion Turcanu
2024 conf
BRAINS
Oussema Gharsallaoui, Damien Nicolas, Marie-Laure Watrinet, Ion Turcanu
2024 conf
MedComNet
Alexey Rolich, Ion Turcanu, Andrea Baiocchi
2024 conf
VNC
Darinela Andronovici, Ion Turcanu, Jannusch Bigge, Christoph Sommer
2024 conf
VNC
Darinela Andronovici, Damien Nicolas, Ion Turcanu, Christoph Sommer
2024 A* conf
MobiCom
Sumit Kumar, Ion Turcanu
2024 conf
EuCNC/6G Summit
Sébastien Faye, Miguel Camelo, Jean-Sébastien Sottet, Christoph Sommer, Mario Franke, Julien Baudouin, Germán Castellanos, Régis Decorme, Maria Pia Fanti, Ramin Fuladi, Gunes Kesik, Beatriz Mendes, Chris Murphy, Stephen Parker, Simon Pryor, Sidi Mohammed Senouci, Ion Turcanu
2024 conf
MedComNet
Saleh Nikooroo, Juan Estrada-Jimenez, Aurel Machalek, Jérôme Härri, Thomas Engel, Ion Turcanu
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Mohammadsaleh Nikooroo, Juan Estrada-Jimenez, Aurel Machalek, Jérôme Härri, Thomas Engel, Ion Turcanu
2024 conf
CSCN
Ayat Zaki Hindi, Jean-Sébastien Sottet, Ion Turcanu, Sébastien Faye
2024 conf
CCNC
Ion Turcanu, German Castignani, Sébastien Faye
2024 conf
VNC
Saleh Nikooroo, Juan Estrada-Jimenez, Aurel Machalek, Jérôme Härri, Thomas Engel, Ion Turcanu
2024 J jnl
Comput. Networks
Alexey Rolich, Ion Turcanu, Alexey Vinel, Andrea Baiocchi
2023 J jnl
IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials
Alessio Buscemi, Ion Turcanu, German Castignani, Andriy Panchenko, Thomas Engel, Kang G. Shin
2023 conf
MedComNet
Alexey Rolich, Ion Turcanu, Alexey Vinel, Andrea Baiocchi
2023 J jnl
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw.
Andrea Baiocchi, Ion Turcanu
2023 conf
VNC
Tobias Hardes, Ion Turcanu, Christoph Sommer
2022 J jnl
IEEE Access
Andrea Baiocchi, Ion Turcanu, Alexey Vinel
2022 conf
CCNC
Alessio Buscemi, Ion Turcanu, German Castignani, Thomas Engel
2022 conf
ICC Workshops
Alessio Buscemi, Ion Turcanu, German Castignani, Thomas Engel
2021 J jnl
IEEE Veh. Technol. Mag.
Ion Turcanu, Thomas Engel, Christoph Sommer
2021 B conf
IM
Andrea Baiocchi, Ion Turcanu, Nikita Lyamin, Katrin Sjöberg, Alexey V. Vinel
2021 J jnl
IEEE Commun. Lett.
Andrea Baiocchi, Ion Turcanu
2021 conf
MedComNet
Ion Turcanu, Andrea Baiocchi, Nikita Lyamin, Alexey V. Vinel
2021 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol.
Alessio Buscemi, Ion Turcanu, German Castignani, Romain Crunelle, Thomas Engel
2021 conf
VNC
Alessio Buscemi, Ion Turcanu, German Castignani, Romain Crunelle, Thomas Engel
2021 conf
VNC
Ion Turcanu, Christoph Sommer
2021 A conf
ITC
Andrea Baiocchi, Ion Turcanu, Alexey V. Vinel
2020 conf
CAVS
Alessio Buscemi, German Castignani, Thomas Engel, Ion Turcanu
2020 J jnl
Veh. Commun.
Ion Turcanu, Pierpaolo Salvo, Andrea Baiocchi, Francesca Cuomo, Thomas Engel
2020 C conf
WoWMoM
Gaetano Manzo, Eirini Kalogeiton, Antonio Di Maio, Torsten Braun, Maria Rita Palattella, Ion Turcanu, Ridha Soua, Gianluca Rizzo
2020 conf
VNC
Ion Turcanu, Minsuk Kim, Florian Klingler
2019 conf
VTC Fall
Ion Turcanu, Florian Adamsky, Thomas Engel
2019 conf
VNC
Ion Turcanu, Thomas Engel, Christoph Sommer
2019 J jnl
Ad Hoc Networks
Izhak Rubin, Andrea Baiocchi, Yulia Sunyoto, Ion Turcanu
2018 J jnl
Comput. Commun.
Ion Turcanu, Florian Klingler, Christoph Sommer, Andrea Baiocchi, Falko Dressler
2018
Ion Turcanu
2018 conf
GLOBECOM Workshops
Ridha Soua, Ion Turcanu, Florian Adamsky, Detlef Führer, Thomas Engel
2018 conf
VNC
Teng Andrea Xu, Florian Adamsky, Ion Turcanu, Ridha Soua, Christian Köbel, Thomas Engel, Andrea Baiocchi
2017 A conf
ITC
Andrea Baiocchi, Ion Turcanu
2017 J jnl
Veh. Commun.
Pierpaolo Salvo, Ion Turcanu, Francesca Cuomo, Andrea Baiocchi, Izhak Rubin
2016 J jnl
Ad Hoc Networks
Ion Turcanu, Pierpaolo Salvo, Andrea Baiocchi, Francesca Cuomo
2016 conf
WONS
Pierpaolo Salvo, Ion Turcanu, Francesca Cuomo, Andrea Baiocchi, Izhak Rubin
2016 conf
VNC
Ion Turcanu, Christoph Sommer, Andrea Baiocchi, Falko Dressler
2016 conf
IoV-VoI@MobiHoc
Mario De Felice, Francesca Cuomo, Andrea Baiocchi, Ion Turcanu, Stefano Zennaro
2015 conf
PE-WASUN@MSWiM
Ion Turcanu, Pierpaolo Salvo, Andrea Baiocchi, Francesca Cuomo
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"