Irfan Ali

24 papers A* 2Misc 2Journal 16Unranked 4
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
Eng. Appl. Artif. Intell.
Xu Long, Irfan Ali, Khawaja Haseeb Maqbool, Muhammad Muaz Khan
2025 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Ind. Informatics
Aneel Ahmed, Sang-Wook Ryu, Hyunghu Park, Irfan Ali, Zawar Khan, Jin-Woo Jung
2024 J jnl
Int. J. Intell. Robotics Appl.
Irfan Ali, Mohsan Hassan, Zarqa Bano, Chunwei Zhang
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Farshad Safavi, Irfan Ali, Venkatesh Dasari, Guanqun Song, Ting Zhu
2021 J jnl
Sensors
Abinash Gaya, Mohd Haizal Jamaluddin, Irfan Ali, Ayman Abdulhadi Althuwayb
2021 J jnl
Comput. Sci. Inf. Syst.
Masoud Reyhani Hamedani, Irfan Ali, Jiwon Hong, Sang-Wook Kim
2020 J jnl
Sensors
Irfan Ali, Mohd Haizal Jamaluddin, Abinash Gaya, Hasliza A. Rahim
2020 J jnl
Expert Syst. Appl.
Munwar Ali, Low Tang Jung, Abdel-Haleem Abdel-Aty, Mustapha Yusuf Abubakar, Mohamed Elhoseny, Irfan Ali
2018 J jnl
CoRR
Sparsh Mittal, S. B. Abhinaya, Manish Reddy, Irfan Ali
2018 J jnl
J. Hardw. Syst. Secur.
Sparsh Mittal, S. B. Abhinaya, Manish Reddy, Irfan Ali
2018 J jnl
J. ICT Stand.
Erik Guttman, Irfan Ali
2018 J jnl
IEEE Access
Michael G. Pecht, Irfan Ali, Augustus Carlson
2017 Misc conf
SAC
Irfan Ali, Jiwon Hong, Sang-Wook Kim
2016 conf
BlackSeaCom
Akin Soysal, Bengi Mizrahi, Irfan Ali, K. Berker Logoglu, Arda Akman
2015 Misc conf
SAC
Irfan Ali, Sang-Wook Kim
2015 conf
IMCOM
Irfan Ali, Sang-Wook Kim
2009 J jnl
IEEE Commun. Mag.
Irfan Ali, Alessio Casati, Kuntal Chowdhury, Katsutoshi Nishida, Eric Parsons, Stefan Schmid, Rahul Vaidya
2002 conf
ICC
Ivan N. Vukovic, Rajesh S. Pazhyannur, Irfan Ali, Philip J. Fleming
2001 J jnl
RFC
Rajesh Pazhyannur, Irfan Ali, Craig Fox
2001 conf
ICC
Rajesh S. Pazhyannur, Irfan Ali, Ivan N. Vukovic
1998 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Commun.
Irfan Ali, Naofal Al-Dhahir, John E. Hershey
1997 J jnl
Int. J. Satell. Commun. Netw.
Irfan Ali, Naofal Al-Dhahir, John E. Hershey, Gary J. Saulnier, Robert Nelson
1994 A* conf
INFOCOM
Irfan Ali, Kenneth S. Vastola
1991 A* conf
INFOCOM
Irfan Ali, Kenneth S. Vastola
redb/extractors/macho_extractor.py
← Index redb/extractors/macho_extractor.py python
import logging
from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod
import inspect
import sys
import os

import machofile

from redb.extractors.extractor import Extractor

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)


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

    def __init__(
        self,
        filepath,
        log,
        exporters=None,
        index_prefix=None,
        elastic_index=None,
        known_benign=False,
        known_malicious=False,
        macho=None,
    ):
        # Read binary and parse machofile BEFORE calling super().__init__
        # This avoids reading the file twice
        with open(filepath, "rb") as f:
            binary_data = f.read()

        # Parse machofile with binary data
        self.macho = macho if macho else self._generate_machofile_object(binary_data)

        # Extract hashes from machofile to pass to parent
        precomputed_hashes = None
        if self.macho:
            try:
                general_info = self.macho.get_general_info()
                if general_info:
                    # For FAT binaries, get_general_info() returns dict with 'fat' key
                    # For single-arch, it returns the info directly
                    if 'fat' in general_info:
                        fat_info = general_info['fat']
                        precomputed_hashes = {
                            'MD5': fat_info.get('MD5'),
                            'SHA1': fat_info.get('SHA1'),
                            'SHA256': fat_info.get('SHA256'),
                        }
                    else:
                        precomputed_hashes = {
                            'MD5': general_info.get('MD5'),
                            'SHA1': general_info.get('SHA1'),
                            'SHA256': general_info.get('SHA256'),
                        }
            except Exception as e:
                logger.debug(f"Could not get hashes from machofile: {e}")

        super().__init__(
            filepath,
            log,
            exporters,
            index_prefix,
            elastic_index,
            known_benign,
            known_malicious,
            precomputed_hashes=precomputed_hashes,
        )

        # Store binary data so base class doesn't re-read
        self._binary_data = binary_data

    @property
    def binary(self):
        """Override to use already-read binary data."""
        return self._binary_data

    def _generate_machofile_object(self, binary_data):
        """Generate and parse a machofile object from binary data."""
        macho = None
        try:
            macho = machofile.UniversalMachO(data=binary_data)
            if not macho:
                raise Exception("Empty file?")

            # Parse the MachO object once during initialization
            macho.parse()

        except Exception as e:
            logger.error(f"Format error parsing MachO: {e}")
        return macho

    # def _is_macho_file(self):
    #     """Check if the file is a valid Mach-O binary."""
    #     try:
    #         if not self.macho:
    #             return False
            
    #         # For Universal/FAT binaries, check if any architecture is valid
    #         if hasattr(self.macho, 'is_fat') and self.macho.is_fat:
    #             return len(self.macho.architectures) > 0
    #         else:
    #             # Single architecture binary
    #             return hasattr(self.macho, 'macho') and self.macho.macho is not None
    #     except Exception as e:
    #         self.log.error(f"Error checking Mach-O file: {e}")
    #         return False

    def _is_signed(self):
        """Check if the Mach-O binary is code signed using new API."""
        try:
            if not self.macho:
                return False

            # Get architectures using new API
            architectures = self.macho.get_architectures()

            # For each architecture, check if signed
            for arch in architectures:
                try:
                    signature_info = self.macho.get_code_signature_info(arch=arch)
                    if signature_info and signature_info.get('signed', False):
                        return True
                except Exception:
                    continue

            return False
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking Mach-O signature: {e}")
            return False

    def _get_architectures(self):
        """Get list of architectures in the Mach-O binary using new API."""
        try:
            if not self.macho:
                return []

            # Use new API method
            architectures = self.macho.get_architectures()
            return architectures if architectures else []
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting architectures: {e}")
            return []

    # def _get_macho_for_arch(self, arch_name=None):
    #     """Get MachO instance for specific architecture or default."""
    #     try:
    #         if not self.macho:
    #             return None
            
    #         if hasattr(self.macho, 'is_fat') and self.macho.is_fat:
    #             if arch_name:
    #                 return self.macho.architectures.get(arch_name)
    #             else:
    #                 # Return first available architecture
    #                 return next(iter(self.macho.architectures.values())) if self.macho.architectures else None
    #         else:
    #             # Single architecture binary
    #             return self.macho.macho if hasattr(self.macho, 'macho') else None
    #     except Exception as e:
    #         self.log.error(f"Error getting MachO for architecture: {e}")
    #         return None

    # def _get_formatted_header_values(self, header):
    #     """Get both raw and human-readable header values."""
    #     try:
    #         macho_instance = self._get_macho_for_arch()
    #         if not macho_instance:
    #             return None
            
    #         # Parse the MachO if not already parsed
    #         if not hasattr(macho_instance, 'header') or not macho_instance.header:
    #             macho_instance.parse()
            
    #         # Get human-readable values using machofile's formatting methods
    #         magic_str = macho_instance.format_magic_value(header.get('magic', 0))
            
    #         # Simple CPU type mapping since CPU_TYPE_MAP is not exposed
    #         cputype = header.get('cputype', 0)
    #         if cputype == 0x7:
    #             cputype_str = "x86"
    #         elif cputype == 0x1000007:
    #             cputype_str = "x86_64"
    #         elif cputype == 0xC:
    #             cputype_str = "ARM"
    #         elif cputype == 0x100000C:
    #             cputype_str = "ARM 64-bit"
    #         else:
    #             cputype_str = str(cputype)
            
    #         cpusubtype_str = macho_instance.decode_cpusubtype(header.get('cputype', 0), header.get('cpusubtype', 0))
    #         filetype_str = macho_instance.format_file_type(header.get('filetype', 0))
    #         flags_str = macho_instance.decode_flags(header.get('flags', 0))
            
    #         return {
    #             'raw': {
    #                 'magic': header.get('magic', 0),
    #                 'cputype': header.get('cputype', 0),
    #                 'cpusubtype': header.get('cpusubtype', 0),
    #                 'filetype': header.get('filetype', 0),
    #                 'flags': header.get('flags', 0),
    #             },
    #             'formatted': {
    #                 'magic_str': magic_str,
    #                 'cputype_str': cputype_str,
    #                 'cpusubtype_str': cpusubtype_str,
    #                 'filetype_str': filetype_str,
    #                 'flags_str': flags_str,
    #             }
    #         }
    #     except Exception as e:
    #         self.log.error(f"Error formatting header values: {e}")
    #         return None