James H. Hill

62 papers A* 1A 3B 6C 12Journal 13Unranked 23
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
Softw. Pract. Exp.
Ross Rannells, James H. Hill
2023 B conf
DSAA
Isaac Manring, James H. Hill, George O. Mohler, P. Jeffrey Brantingham, Thomas Williams, Bruce White
2023 A* conf
KDD
Ritika Pandey, Jeremy G. Carter, James H. Hill, George O. Mohler
2022 C conf
ISORC
Brandon Upp, Sai Pavan Kumar Meruga, James H. Hill
2021 J jnl
J. Syst. Archit.
Nyalia Lui, James H. Hill
2021 C conf
ISORC
Nyalia Lui, Mohammad Al Hasan, James H. Hill
2021 J jnl
Softw. Syst. Model.
Arvind Nair, Xia Ning, James H. Hill
2020 C conf
ISORC
Nyalia Lui, James H. Hill
2020 C conf
ISORC
Mike Du, James H. Hill
2018 C conf
AICCSA
Enas A. Alikhashashneh, Rajeev R. Raje, James H. Hill
2018 conf
ICDIS
Enas A. Alikhashashneh, Rajeev R. Raje, James H. Hill
2017 conf
SER&IP@ICSE
Zachary P. Reynolds, Abhinandan B. Jayanth, Ugur Koc, Adam A. Porter, Rajeev R. Raje, James H. Hill
2017 J jnl
Softw. Syst. Model.
Tanumoy Pati, Sowmya Kolli, James H. Hill
2017 C conf
ISORC
Geetha R. Satyanarayana, LiRen Tu, Nyalia Lui, James H. Hill
2016 B conf
ICPE
Manjula Peiris, James H. Hill
2016 ed.
CloudMDE@MoDELS
Richard F. Paige, Jordi Cabot, Marco Brambilla, James H. Hill
2016 J jnl
Concurr. Comput. Pract. Exp.
Lahiru S. Gallege, Dimuthu U. Gamage, James H. Hill, Rajeev R. Raje
2014 J jnl
Softw. Pract. Exp.
Tanumoy Pati, James H. Hill
2014 conf
IEEE CLOUD
Manjula Peiris, James H. Hill, Jorgen Thelin, Sergey Bykov, Gabriel Kliot, Christian Konig
2014 B conf
GPCE
James H. Hill, Dennis C. Feiock
2014 ed.
MDHPCL@MoDELS
Ileana Ober, Aniruddha S. Gokhale, James H. Hill, Jean-Michel Bruel, Michael Felderer, David Lugato, Akshay Dabholkar
2014 ed.
CloudMDE@MoDELS
Richard F. Paige, Jordi Cabot, Marco Brambilla, Louis M. Rose, James H. Hill
2014 A conf
MoDELS
Gunter Mussbacher, Daniel Amyot, Ruth Breu, Jean-Michel Bruel, Betty H. C. Cheng, Philippe Collet, Benoît Combemale, Robert B. France, Rogardt Heldal, James H. Hill, Jörg Kienzle, Matthias Schöttle, Friedrich Steimann, Dave R. Stikkolorum, Jon Whittle
2014 J jnl
ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes
Manjula Peiris, James H. Hill
2014 conf
CISR
Lakshmi Manohar Rao Velicheti, Dennis C. Feiock, Manjula Peiris, Rajeev R. Raje, James H. Hill
2014 conf
CISR
Lahiru S. Gallege, Dimuthu U. Gamage, James H. Hill, Rajeev R. Raje
2013 J jnl
J. Syst. Softw.
Manjula Peiris, James H. Hill
2013 C conf
ISORC
Manjula Peiris, Mohammad Al Hasan, James H. Hill
2013 C conf
ISORC
Dennis C. Feiock, James H. Hill
2013 conf
ECBS
Darshan G. Puranik, Dennis C. Feiock, James H. Hill
2013 conf
CSIIRW
Lahiru S. Gallege, Dimuthu Gamage, James H. Hill, Rajeev R. Raje
2013 B conf
EDOC
Lahiru S. Gallege, Dimuthu Gamage, James H. Hill, Rajeev R. Raje
2013 conf
EUROMICRO-SEAA
Dennis C. Feiock, James H. Hill
2012 conf
CSE
Dimuthu Gamage, Lahiru S. Gallege, James H. Hill, Rajeev R. Raje
2012 C conf
ISORC
T. Manjula Peirs, James H. Hill
2012 conf
DSM@SPLASH
Tanumoy Pati, Dennis C. Feiock, James H. Hill
2012 conf
ECBS
James H. Hill
2012 conf
ECBS
James H. Hill, Aniruddha S. Gokhale
2011 J jnl
Central Eur. J. Comput. Sci.
James H. Hill, Pooja Varshneya, Douglas C. Schmidt
2011 conf
OTM Conferences (2)
James H. Hill, Douglas C. Schmidt
2011 C conf
ISORC
Harald Owens, James H. Hill
2011 conf
ECBS
James H. Hill
2011 C conf
ISORC
James H. Hill
2011 J jnl
Comput. Syst. Sci. Eng.
James H. Hill, Hunt Sutherland, Paul Staudinger, Thomas Silveria, Douglas C. Schmidt, John M. Slaby, Nikita Visnevski
2011 conf
EDOCW
T. Manjula Peirs, James H. Hill
2011 conf
EUROMICRO-SEAA
James H. Hill
2010 conf
ICSE (2)
James H. Hill
2010 B conf
RTCSA
James H. Hill
2010 C conf
ISORC
James H. Hill, Hunt Sutherland, Paul Stodinger, Thomas Silveria, Douglas C. Schmidt, John M. Slaby, Nikita Visnevski
2010 J jnl
IEEE Softw.
James H. Hill, Douglas C. Schmidt, James R. Edmondson, Aniruddha S. Gokhale
2009
James H. Hill
2009 conf
OTM Conferences (1)
James H. Hill
2009 J jnl
IEEE Softw.
Jules White, James H. Hill, Jeff Gray, Sumant Tambe, Aniruddha S. Gokhale, Douglas C. Schmidt
2009 A conf
ICST
James H. Hill, Hamilton A. Turner, James R. Edmondson, Douglas C. Schmidt
2008 conf
ECBS
James H. Hill, Douglas C. Schmidt, Adam A. Porter, John M. Slaby
2008 A conf
IPDPS
James H. Hill, Aniruddha S. Gokhale
2008 conf
ULSSIS@ICSE
James H. Hill, Jules White, Sean Eade, Douglas C. Schmidt, Trip Denton
2007 conf
ECBS
James H. Hill, Sumant Tambe, Aniruddha S. Gokhale
2007 J jnl
J. Softw.
James H. Hill, Aniruddha S. Gokhale
2006 B conf
RTCSA
John M. Slaby, Steve Baker, James H. Hill, Douglas C. Schmidt
2006 conf
ECBS
Stoyan Paunov, James H. Hill, Douglas C. Schmidt, Steven D. Baker, John M. Slaby
2005 conf
ACM Southeast Regional Conference (1)
James H. Hill, Aniruddha S. Gokhale
redb/extractors/elf_extractors/elf_imports.py
← Index redb/extractors/elf_extractors/elf_imports.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 ELFImport


class ELFImportExtractor(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_imports = None
        self.elastic_index = self.index_prefix + "-elf_imports"
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

    def _get_import_libraries(self, elf) -> List[str]:
        """Extract imported libraries from dynamic section."""
        libraries = []

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

            # Extract DT_NEEDED entries (required libraries)
            for tag in dynamic_section.iter_tags():
                if tag.entry.d_tag == 'DT_NEEDED':
                    libraries.append(tag.needed)

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting import libraries: {e}")

        return libraries

    def _get_imported_functions_from_symbols(self, elf) -> Set[str]:
        """Extract imported functions from dynamic symbol table."""
        imported_functions = set()

        try:
            # Get the dynamic symbol table
            dynsym_section = elf.get_section_by_name('.dynsym')
            if not dynsym_section or not hasattr(dynsym_section, 'iter_symbols'):
                return imported_functions

            # Look for undefined symbols (imports)
            for symbol in dynsym_section.iter_symbols():
                # Check if symbol is undefined (imported)
                if (symbol.entry.get('st_shndx', 0) == 'SHN_UNDEF' and
                    symbol.name and
                    symbol.entry.get('st_info', {}).get('bind') in ['STB_GLOBAL', 'STB_WEAK']):
                    imported_functions.add(symbol.name)

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

        return imported_functions

    def _get_imported_functions_from_relocations(self, elf) -> Set[str]:
        """Extract imported functions from relocation sections."""
        imported_functions = set()

        try:
            # Look through relocation sections
            for section in elf.iter_sections():
                if hasattr(section, 'iter_relocations'):
                    try:
                        for relocation in section.iter_relocations():
                            # Get symbol associated with relocation
                            if hasattr(relocation, 'symbol') and relocation.symbol:
                                symbol_name = relocation.symbol.name
                                if symbol_name:
                                    imported_functions.add(symbol_name)
                    except Exception as e:
                        self.log.debug(f"Could not process relocations in section {section.name}: {e}")

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

        return imported_functions

    def _get_plt_functions(self, elf) -> Set[str]:
        """Extract functions from PLT (Procedure Linkage Table) sections."""
        plt_functions = set()

        try:
            # Look for PLT-related sections
            plt_sections = ['.plt', '.plt.got', '.plt.sec']

            for section_name in plt_sections:
                section = elf.get_section_by_name(section_name)
                if section:
                    # PLT functions are typically associated with relocations
                    # We'll get them from the relocation analysis
                    pass

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

        return plt_functions

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

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

            def extract_data(elf):
                # Extract import libraries
                import_libraries = self._get_import_libraries(elf)

                # Extract imported functions from multiple sources
                imported_functions = set()

                # From dynamic symbols
                symbol_imports = self._get_imported_functions_from_symbols(elf)
                imported_functions.update(symbol_imports)

                # From relocations
                relocation_imports = self._get_imported_functions_from_relocations(elf)
                imported_functions.update(relocation_imports)

                # From PLT
                plt_imports = self._get_plt_functions(elf)
                imported_functions.update(plt_imports)

                # Convert to sorted lists for consistent output
                import_libraries_list = sorted(list(set(import_libraries)))
                import_functions_list = sorted(list(imported_functions))

                # Return ELFImport dataclass
                return ELFImport(
                    elf_imports_total=len(import_functions_list),
                    elf_import_libraries=import_libraries_list,
                    elf_import_functions=import_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_imports = result
            return self.elf_imports

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

                # Prepare data array
                data = [[
                    self.sha256,
                    self.md5,
                    self.sha1,
                    self.elf_imports.elf_imports_total,
                    self.elf_imports.elf_import_libraries,
                    self.elf_imports.elf_import_functions,
                    datetime.now(timezone.utc)
                ]]

                column_names = [
                    'sha256', 'md5', 'sha1',
                    'elf_imports_total',
                    'elf_import_libraries',
                    'elf_import_functions',
                    'analysis_date'
                ]

                column_type_names = [
                    'FixedString(64)', 'FixedString(32)', 'FixedString(40)',
                    'UInt32',
                    'Array(LowCardinality(String))',
                    'Array(LowCardinality(String))',
                    '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_imports"