James Ford

51 papers A* 5A 3B 6C 4Misc 2Journal 7Unranked 23
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 B conf
COLING
James Ford, Xingmeng Zhao, Daniel Schumacher, Anthony Rios
2025 conf
EMNLP (Findings)
James Ford, Anthony Rios
2025 J jnl
CoRR
James Ford, Anthony Rios
2024 J jnl
CoRR
James Ford, Xingmeng Zhao, Daniel Schumacher, Anthony Rios
2020 conf
AI4SG@AAAI Fall Symposium
Drake Anshutz, Andrew Crisp, James Ford, Onur Torusoglu, Justin Smith
2009 ch.
Tools and Applications with Artificial Intelligence
Yurong Xu, James Ford, Eric Becker, Fillia Makedon
2008 C conf
SecureComm
Yi Ouyang, Zhengyi Le, Donggang Liu, James Ford, Fillia Makedon
2007 conf
WIAMIS
Heng Huang, Fillia Makedon, Dan O. Popa, Harry E. Stephanou, James Ford, Yurong Xu
2007 A conf
MSWiM
Yurong Xu, Yi Ouyang, Zhengyi Le, James Ford, Fillia Makedon
2007 conf
Critical Infrastructure Protection
Yurong Xu, Guanling Chen, James Ford, Fillia Makedon
2007 J jnl
CoRR
James Ford
2007 B conf
DCOSS
Yurong Xu, Yi Ouyang, Zhengyi Le, James Ford, Fillia Makedon
2007 C conf
ICICS
Zhengyi Le, Yi Ouyang, Yurong Xu, James Ford, Fillia Makedon
2007 Misc conf
SenSys
Yi Ouyang, Zhengyi Le, James Ford, Fillia Makedon
2007 conf
ICPS
Yi Ouyang, Zhengyi Le, Yurong Xu, Nikos Triandopoulos, Sheng Zhang, James Ford, Fillia Makedon
2006 A* conf
EC
Sheng Zhang, James Ford, Fillia Makedon
2006 A* conf
SIGIR
Sheng Zhang, Yi Ouyang, James Ford, Fillia Makedon
2006 A* conf
KDD
Sheng Zhang, Amit Chakrabarti, James Ford, Fillia Makedon
2006 A conf
SDM
Sheng Zhang, James Ford, Fillia Makedon
2006 C conf
WOWMOM
Yi Ouyang, Zhengyi Le, Guanling Chen, James Ford, Fillia Makedon
2006 B conf
ICCCN
Yurong Xu, James Ford, Fillia Makedon
2006 A conf
SDM
Sheng Zhang, Weihong Wang, James Ford, Fillia Makedon
2006 conf
SETN
Zhifeng Wang, Wei Zheng, Yuhang Wang, James Ford, Fillia Makedon, Justin D. Pearlman
2006 conf
Image-Guided Procedures
Li Shen, Heng Huang, James Ford, Chia-Hsin Lu, Ling Gao, Wei Zheng, Fillia Makedon, Justin D. Pearlman
2005 B conf
Image Processing
Heng Huang, Li Shen, James Ford, Fillia Makedon, Rong Zhang, Ling Gao, Justin D. Pearlman
2005 conf
ICPS
Yi Ouyang, Zhengyi Le, James Ford, Fillia Makedon
2005 Misc conf
SAC
Wei Zheng, Sheng Zhang, Yi Ouyang, Fillia Makedon, James Ford
2005 B conf
CEC
Sheng Zhang, Weihong Wang, James Ford, Fillia Makedon, Justin D. Pearlman
2004 C conf
ISC
Zhengyi Le, Yi Ouyang, James Ford, Fillia Makedon
2004 conf
EC-Web
Sheng Zhang, Fillia Makedon, James Ford, Lin Ai
2004 A* conf
EC
Sheng Zhang, Song Ye, Fillia Makedon, James Ford
2004 J jnl
Intell. Data Anal.
Li Shen, James Ford, Fillia Makedon, Andrew J. Saykin
2004 conf
EGOV
Sheng Zhang, Fillia Makedon, James Ford, Calliope Sudborough, Lin Ai, Sarantos Kapidakis, Vangelis Karkaletsis, Euripidis N. Loukis
2004 conf
Peer-to-Peer Computing
Song Ye, Fillia Makedon, James Ford
2004 conf
SETN
Fillia Makedon, Song Ye, Sheng Zhang, James Ford, Li Shen, Sarantos Kapidakis
2004 conf
MICCAI (2)
Despina Kontos, Vasileios Megalooikonomou, Dragoljub Pokrajac, Aleksandar Lazarevic, Zoran Obradovic, Orest B. Boyko, James Ford, Fillia Makedon, Andrew J. Saykin
2004 conf
JCDL
Yuhang Wang, Fillia Makedon, James Ford, Li Shen, Dina Q. Goldin
2003 B conf
Image Processing
Li Shen, James Ford, Fillia Makedon, Andrew J. Saykin
2003 conf
MICCAI (2)
Li Shen, James Ford, Fillia Makedon, Yuhang Wang, Tilmann Steinberg, Song Ye, Andrew J. Saykin
2003 conf
MICCAI (2)
James Ford, Hany Farid, Fillia Makedon, Laura A. Flashman, Thomas W. McAllister, Vasileios Megalooikonomou, Andrew J. Saykin
2003 conf
MICCAI (2)
Yuhang Wang, Tilmann Steinberg, Fillia Makedon, James Ford, Heather Wishart, Andrew J. Saykin
2003 conf
JCDL
Song Ye, Fillia Makedon, Tilmann Steinberg, Li Shen, James Ford, Yuhang Wang, Yan Zhao, Sarantos Kapidakis
2002 conf
ECDL
Fillia Makedon, James Ford, Li Shen, Tilmann Steinberg, Andrew J. Saykin, Heather Wishart, Sarantos Kapidakis
2000 conf
WebNet
Li Shen, Ling Cheng, James Ford, Fillia Makedon, Vasileios Megalooikonomou, Tilmann Steinberg
2000 J jnl
Int. J. Digit. Libr.
Charles B. Owen, James Ford, Fillia Makedon, Tilmann Steinberg, Christina Metaxaki-Kossionides
1999 conf
WebNet
Peter A. Gloor, Fillia Makedon, James Ford, Tilmann Steinberg, Charles B. Owen, Basil Sudborough
1998 conf
WebNet
Ann De Bord, James Ford, Fillia Makedon, Theodore P. Prizio, Mihalis Sasles, Charles B. Owen
1998 J jnl
Multim. Tools Appl.
James Ford, Fillia Makedon, Samuel A. Rebelsky
1998 A* conf
ACM Multimedia
James Ford, Fillia Makedon, Charles B. Owen, Sterling C. Johnson, Andrew J. Saykin
1998 J jnl
J. Univers. Comput. Sci.
Samuel A. Rebelsky, Fillia Makedon, Panagiotis Takis Metaxas, James Ford, Charles B. Owen, Peter A. Gloor
1995 conf
CHI 95 Conference Companion
Samuel A. Rebelsky, James Ford, Kenneth Harker, Fillia Makedon, Panagiotis Takis Metaxas, Charles B. Owen
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"