James Jackson

21 papers A* 2A 1B 2C 4Journal 4Unranked 8
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 conf
UbiComp Companion
Gábor Sörös, James Jackson, Mikel Salazar, Christine Perey, Ali C. Hantal, Alina Kadlubsky
2025 conf
UbiComp Companion
Gábor Sörös, Andor Kovács, Dénes Bisztray, Asmaa Thabet, Balázs Ladjánszki, James Jackson, Christine Perey, Alina Kadlubsky
2025 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph.
James Jackson, Panagiotis D. Ritsos, Peter W. S. Butcher, Jonathan C. Roberts
2024 conf
MetaCom
Gábor Sörös, James Jackson, Michael Vogt, Mikel Salazar, Alina Kadlubsky, Jan-Erik Vinje
2024 C conf
PSD
James Jackson, Robin Mitra, Brian Francis, Iain Dove
2024 J jnl
CoRR
James Jackson, Robin Mitra, Brian Francis, Iain Dove
2024 J jnl
CoRR
James Jackson, Panagiotis D. Ritsos, Peter W. S. Butcher, Jonathan C. Roberts
2023 conf
SIGGRAPH Production Sessions
Lisa Connors, James Jackson, Baptiste Van Opstal, Mike Necci, Ludovic Bouancheau
2022 C conf
PSD
James Jackson, Robin Mitra, Brian Francis, Iain Dove
2021 conf
ISMAR Adjunct
James Jackson, Michael Vogt, Gábor Sörös, Mikel Salazar, Sergey Fedorenko
2020 conf
AHFE (12)
James Jackson, Davide Salanitri
2020 C conf
CHIRA
Davide Salanitri, James Jackson, Cristina Periago
2020 A conf
IROS
James Jackson, Daniel P. Koch, Trey Henrichsen, Timothy W. McLain
2020 A* conf
CHI
Charlotte Robinson, Emeline Brulé, James Jackson, Alice Torjussen, Joshua T. Kybett, Tom Appshaw
2019 A* conf
ICRA
James Jackson, Jerel Nielsen, Timothy W. McLain, Randal W. Beard
2019 conf
CGVC
James Jackson, Panagiotis D. Ritsos, Jonathan C. Roberts
2018 conf
PPIG
Kate Howland, James Jackson
2016 J jnl
Trans. Comput. Sci.
Christopher James Headleand, James Jackson, Benjamin Williams, Lee Priday, William John Teahan, Llyr ap Cenydd
2016 B conf
WiMob
Henryk Gierszal, Evangelos Sdongos, Lukasz Kiedrowski, Dariusz Korzeniowki, Kamil Plucinski, Lukasz Brajer, Piotr Tyczka, Pedro Santo Antonio, Michalis Tsagkaropoulos, Natasha McCrone, James Jackson
2015 C conf
CW
Christopher James Headleand, James Jackson, Lee Priday, William John Teahan, Llyr ap Cenydd
2014 B conf
WiMob
Carlo Augusto Grazia, Martin Klapez, Natale Patriciello, Maurizio Casoni, Angelos Amditis, Evangelos Sdongos, Henryk Gierszal, Dimitris Kanakidis, Christos I. Katsigiannis, Krzysztof Romanowski, Pedro Simplicio, André Oliveira, Sean Sonander, James Jackson
redb/extractors/macho_extractors/macho_segments.py
← Index redb/extractors/macho_extractors/macho_segments.py python
import hashlib
import inspect
import base64
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from typing import Any

from redb.extractors.enum import Tag
from redb.extractors.macho_extractor import MachOExtractor
from redb.models.dataclasses import MachOSegment


class MachOSegmentExtractor(MachOExtractor):

    def __init__(
        self,
        filepath,
        log,
        exporters=None,
        index_prefix=None,
        elastic_index=None,
        known_benign=False,
        known_malicious=False,
        macho=None,
    ):
        super().__init__(
            filepath,
            log,
            exporters,
            index_prefix,
            elastic_index,
            known_benign,
            known_malicious,
            macho,
        )
        self.elastic_index = self.index_prefix + "-macho_segments"
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

    def _is_empty_result(self, extracted_data) -> bool:
        """
        Override: Empty segments is an ERROR, not a valid empty case.
        A valid MachO file must have segments (at minimum __PAGEZERO, __TEXT).
        """
        # Always return False - empty segments should be treated as an error
        return False

    def tag(self):
        return Tag.MACHO_SEGMENT.value

    def _extract_segments_for_arch(self, arch_name):
        """Extract segment information for a specific architecture."""
        self.log.debug(f"Extracting segments for architecture: {arch_name}")
        segments = []

        try:
            # Get segments using new API with architecture parameter
            segments_data = self.macho.get_segments(arch=arch_name)
            if not segments_data:
                return segments

            # Extract segments for this architecture
            for segment in segments_data:
                try:
                    segment_name = segment.get('segname', 'Unknown')

                    # Calculate segment hash
                    segment_data = self._get_segment_data(segment)
                    if segment_data:
                        seg_sha256 = hashlib.sha256(segment_data).hexdigest()
                    else:
                        seg_sha256 = ""

                    # Use entropy already calculated by machofile module, rounded to 3 decimal places
                    seg_entropy = round(segment.get('entropy', 0.0), 3)

                    # Create segment dataclass with architecture info
                    macho_segment = MachOSegment(
                        segment_name=segment_name,
                        segment_vaddr=segment.get('vaddr', 0),
                        segment_vsize=segment.get('vsize', 0),
                        segment_offset=segment.get('offset', 0),
                        segment_size=segment.get('size', 0),
                        segment_max_vm_protection=segment.get('max_vm_protection', 0),
                        segment_initial_vm_protection=segment.get('initial_vm_protection', 0),
                        segment_nsects=segment.get('nsects', 0),
                        segment_flags=segment.get('flags', 0),
                        segment_entropy=seg_entropy,
                        segment_sha256=seg_sha256,
                    )
                    # Add architecture info to the segment
                    macho_segment.architecture = arch_name
                    segments.append(macho_segment)

                except Exception as e:
                    self.log.warning(
                        f'Unable to process segment "{segment.get("segname", "Unknown")}" for architecture {arch_name} in {self.hash.sha256}: {e}'
                    )
                    continue

            return segments

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting MachO segments for architecture {arch_name}: {e}")
            return segments

    def _extract_segments(self):
        """Extract segment information from all architectures in the MachO binary."""
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)
        segments = []

        if not self.macho:
            return segments

        try:
            # Get architectures using new API (already parsed in base class)
            architectures = self.macho.get_architectures()
            if not architectures:
                return segments

            # Process each architecture
            for arch_name in architectures:
                arch_segments = self._extract_segments_for_arch(arch_name)
                segments.extend(arch_segments)

            return segments

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting MachO segments: {e}")
            return segments

    def _get_segment_data(self, segment):
        """Get the raw data for a segment."""
        try:
            offset = segment.get('offset', 0)
            size = segment.get('size', 0)
            
            if size == 0:
                return None
            
            # Read segment data from file
            with open(self.filepath, 'rb') as f:
                f.seek(offset)
                return f.read(size)
                
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.warning(f"Error reading segment data: {e}")
            return None

    def extract(self):
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)
        try:
            segments = self._extract_segments()
            return segments
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting MachO segments: {e}")
            return None

    def prepare_export_data(self, exporter_type: str) -> Any:
        if exporter_type == "ElasticsearchExporter":
            return self.extract()
        elif exporter_type == "ClickHouseExporter":
            if not self.macho:
                return None

            # Get architectures (macho is already parsed in base class)
            try:
                architectures = self.macho.get_architectures()
                is_fat = len(architectures) > 1
            except Exception as e:
                self.log.error(f"Could not get architectures: {e}")
                return None

            data = []
            current_time = datetime.now(timezone.utc)

            # Loop through each architecture (1 for single, multiple for FAT)
            for arch_name in architectures:
                # Extract segments for this specific architecture
                segments = self._extract_segments_for_arch(arch_name)
                if not segments:
                    continue

                # Get architecture-specific sha256 and header info
                try:
                    arch_general_info = self.macho.get_general_info(arch=arch_name)
                    arch_sha256 = arch_general_info.get('SHA256', self.sha256)

                    # Get raw architecture value
                    arch_header_raw = self.macho.get_macho_header(arch=arch_name)
                    arch_cputype_raw = arch_header_raw.get('cputype', 0) if arch_header_raw else 0
                except Exception as e:
                    self.log.warning(f"Could not get arch-specific data for {arch_name}: {e}")
                    arch_sha256 = self.sha256
                    arch_cputype_raw = 0

                for segment in segments:
                    data.append([
                        arch_sha256,                          # sha256 (architecture-specific)
                        segment.segment_name,                 # segment_name
                        segment.segment_vaddr,                # segment_vaddr
                        segment.segment_vsize,                # segment_vsize
                        segment.segment_offset,               # segment_offset
                        segment.segment_size,                 # segment_size
                        segment.segment_max_vm_protection,    # segment_max_vm_protection
                        segment.segment_initial_vm_protection, # segment_initial_vm_protection
                        segment.segment_nsects,               # segment_nsects
                        segment.segment_flags,                # segment_flags
                        segment.segment_entropy,              # segment_entropy
                        segment.segment_sha256,               # segment_sha256
                        current_time,                         # analysis_date
                    ])

            column_names = [
                'sha256',
                'segment_name', 'segment_vaddr', 'segment_vsize', 'segment_offset',
                'segment_size', 'segment_max_vm_protection', 'segment_initial_vm_protection',
                'segment_nsects', 'segment_flags', 'segment_entropy', 'segment_sha256',
                'analysis_date'
            ]

            if not data:
                return None

            column_type_names = [
                'FixedString(64)',
                'String', 'UInt64', 'UInt64', 'UInt64',
                'UInt64', 'UInt32', 'UInt32',
                'UInt32', 'UInt32', 'Float64', 'FixedString(64)',
                'DateTime64(3, \'UTC\')'
            ]

            return (data, column_names, column_type_names)

        return None

    def get_clickhouse_table(self) -> str:
        return "redb_macho_segments"