Jan D. Smeddinck

40 papers A* 2A 2B 2C 8Misc 1Journal 12Unranked 12
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Dominik P. Hofer, David Haag, Rania Islambouli, Jan D. Smeddinck
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Dominik P. Hofer, Haochen Song, Rania Islambouli, Laura Hawkins, Ananya Bhattacharjee, Meredith Franklin, Joseph Jay Williams, Jan D. Smeddinck
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Zahra Hassanzadeh, David Haag, Lydia B. Chilton, Jan D. Smeddinck, Norman A. S. Farb, Joseph Jay Williams
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Faith Young, Dmitry Alexandrovsky, Daniela Wurhofer, Eva-Maria Krah, Jan D. Smeddinck
2024 Misc conf
MuC
Isabel Höppchen, Stefan Tino Kulnik, Bernhard Reich, Josef Niebauer, Jan D. Smeddinck, Alexander Meschtscherjakov, Daniela Wurhofer
2024 conf
MuC (Workshopband)
Pavithren V. S. Pakianathan, Alireza Fatehi, Jan D. Smeddinck
2023 conf
dHealth
Pavithren V. S. Pakianathan, Daniela Wurhofer, Devender Kumar, Josef Niebauer, Jan D. Smeddinck
2020 J jnl
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.
Arlind Reuter, Thomas Scharf, Jan D. Smeddinck
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Jan D. Smeddinck, Markus Krause, Kolja Lubitz
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Himangshu Sarma, Robert Porzel, Jan D. Smeddinck, Rainer Malaka
2019 J jnl
Pervasive Mob. Comput.
Heng Zhang, Jan D. Smeddinck, Rainer Malaka, Yao Shu, Chong Chen, Bo He, Zengjun Fu, Michael Lawo
2018 J jnl
Comput. J.
Himangshu Sarma, Robert Porzel, Jan D. Smeddinck, Rainer Malaka, Arun B. Samaddar
2018 A* conf
VR
Mette Boldt, Michael Bonfert, Inga Lehne, Melina Cahnbley, Kim Korschinq, Ioannis Bikas, Stefan Finke, Martin Hanci, Valentin Kraft, Boxuan Liu, Tram Nguyen, Alina Panova, Ramneek Singh, Alexander Steenbergen, Rainer Malaka, Jan D. Smeddinck
2017 B conf
MobileHCI
Mohammad Othman, Telmo Amaral, Roisin McNaney, Jan D. Smeddinck, John Vines, Patrick Olivier
2017 conf
CICLing (1)
Sandeep Kumar Dash, Partha Pakray, Robert Porzel, Jan D. Smeddinck, Rainer Malaka, Alexander F. Gelbukh
2017 C conf
ICEC
Jan D. Smeddinck, Dmitry Alexandrovsky, Dirk Wenig, Michel Zimmer, Waldemar Wegele, Sylvia Juergens, Rainer Malaka
2016 conf
MuC (Workshopband)
Marc Herrlich, Jan D. Smeddinck, Nina Runge, Rainer Malaka
2016 ch.
Ausgezeichnete Informatikdissertationen
Jan D. Smeddinck
2015 C conf
ICEC
Christoph Eggert, Marc Herrlich, Jan D. Smeddinck, Rainer Malaka
2015 J jnl
ACM Trans. Access. Comput.
Kathrin Maria Gerling, Regan L. Mandryk, Matthew K. Miller, Michael Kalyn, Max Birk, Jan D. Smeddinck
2015 A* conf
CHI
Benjamin Walther-Franks, Jan D. Smeddinck, Peter Szmidt, Andrei Haidu, Michael Beetz, Rainer Malaka
2014 J jnl
Inform. Spektrum
Jan D. Smeddinck, Kathrin Maria Gerling, Rainer Malaka
2014 J jnl
Inform. Spektrum
Marc Herrlich, Dirk Wenig, Benjamin Walther-Franks, Jan D. Smeddinck, Rainer Malaka
2013 conf
CHI Extended Abstracts
Markus Krause, Jan D. Smeddinck, Ronald Meyer
2013 B conf
Graphics Interface
Jan D. Smeddinck, Sandra Siegel, Marc Herrlich
2013 C conf
ICEC
Benjamin Walther-Franks, Dirk Wenig, Jan D. Smeddinck, Rainer Malaka
2013 conf
MuC (Workshopband)
Benjamin Walther-Franks, Dirk Wenig, Jan D. Smeddinck, Rainer Malaka
2013 conf
MuC (Workshopband)
Robert Hermann, Marc Herrlich, Dirk Wenig, Jan D. Smeddinck, Rainer Malaka
2013 C conf
ICEC
Benjamin Walther-Franks, Dirk Wenig, Jan D. Smeddinck, Rainer Malaka
2013 A conf
ASSETS
Jan D. Smeddinck, Kathrin Maria Gerling, Saranat Tiemkeo
2012 C conf
ICEC
Sandra Siegel, Jan D. Smeddinck
2012 C conf
ICEC
Kathrin Maria Gerling, Frank P. Schulte, Jan D. Smeddinck, Maic Masuch
2012 conf
HCOMP@AAAI
Markus Krause, Jan D. Smeddinck, Aneta Takhtamysheva, Velislav Markov, Nina Runge
2012 conf
HCOMP@AAAI
Nina Runge, Niklas Kilian, Jan D. Smeddinck, Markus Krause
2012 C conf
ICEC
Aneta Takhtamysheva, Jan D. Smeddinck
2011 conf
EUSIPCO
Markus Krause, Jan D. Smeddinck
2011 C conf
ICEC
Aneta Takhtamysheva, Markus Krause, Jan D. Smeddinck
2011 conf
MuC (Workshopband)
Marc Herrlich, Markus Krause, Rainer Malaka, Jan D. Smeddinck
2010 A conf
IUI
Jan D. Smeddinck, Kamila Wajda, Adeel Naveed, Leen Touma, Yuting Chen, Muhammad Abu Hasan, Muhammad Waqas Latif, Robert Porzel
2010 conf
SIGDIAL Conference
Vivien Mast, Jan D. Smeddinck, Anna Strotseva, Thora Tenbrink
redb/extractors/elf_extractor.py
← Index redb/extractors/elf_extractor.py python
import logging
from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod
import inspect

from elftools.elf.elffile import ELFFile
from elftools.common.exceptions import ELFError

from redb.extractors.extractor import Extractor

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)


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

    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
        )
        # Store ELF object if provided, otherwise we'll create it per-operation for security
        self._provided_elf = elf
        self._elf_file_valid = None  # Cache validity check

    def _with_elf_file(self, operation):
        """Safely execute an operation with an ELF file using context manager.

        Args:
            operation: A callable that takes an ELFFile object and returns a result

        Returns:
            The result of the operation, or None if an error occurred
        """
        if self._provided_elf:
            try:
                return operation(self._provided_elf)
            except ELFError as e:
                if "String Table not found" in str(e):
                    self.log.warning(f"String table missing in ELF {self.hash.sha256}: {e}")
                    return None
                else:
                    self.log.error(f"ELF format error {self.hash.sha256} Full error: {e}")
                    return None
            except Exception as e:
                self.log.error(f"Error processing ELF file {self.hash.sha256} Full error: {e}")
                return None

        try:
            with open(self.filepath, 'rb') as f:
                elf = ELFFile(f)
                if not elf:
                    raise ELFError("Empty file?")
                return operation(elf)
        except ELFError as e:
            if "String Table not found" in str(e):
                self.log.warning(f"String table missing in ELF {self.hash.sha256}: {e}")
                return None
            else:
                self.log.error(f"ELF format error {self.hash.sha256} Full error: {e}")
                return None
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error reading ELF file {self.hash.sha256} Full error: {e}")
            return None

    def _is_elf_file(self):
        """Check if the file is a valid ELF binary."""
        if self._elf_file_valid is not None:
            return self._elf_file_valid

        def check_elf_validity(elf):
            # pyelftools ELFFile object existing means it's valid ELF
            # Just check that we can access the header
            header = elf.header
            return header is not None

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_elf_validity)
            self._elf_file_valid = bool(result)
            return self._elf_file_valid
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking ELF file: {e}")
            self._elf_file_valid = False
            return False

    def _is_64bit(self):
        """Check if the ELF binary is 64-bit."""
        def check_64bit(elf):
            return elf.header.get('e_ident', {}).get('EI_CLASS') == 'ELFCLASS64'

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_64bit)
            return bool(result)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking ELF bitness: {e}")
            return False

    def _is_stripped(self):
        """Check if the ELF binary is stripped (no symbol table)."""
        def check_stripped(elf):
            # Look for symbol table sections
            for section in elf.iter_sections():
                if section.name in ['.symtab', '.strtab']:
                    return False
            return True

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_stripped)
            return result if result is not None else True
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking if ELF is stripped: {e}")
            return True

    def _has_debug_info(self):
        """Check if the ELF binary contains debug information."""
        def check_debug_info(elf):
            # Look for debug sections
            debug_sections = ['.debug_info', '.debug_line', '.debug_str', '.debug_abbrev']
            for section in elf.iter_sections():
                if section.name in debug_sections:
                    return True
            return False

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_debug_info)
            return bool(result)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking debug info: {e}")
            return False

    def _get_architecture(self):
        """Get the architecture of the ELF binary."""
        def get_arch(elf):
            machine = elf.header.get('e_machine', 'EM_NONE')

            # Map common machine types to readable names
            arch_map = {
                'EM_386': 'x86',
                'EM_X86_64': 'x86_64',
                'EM_ARM': 'ARM',
                'EM_AARCH64': 'ARM64',
                'EM_MIPS': 'MIPS',
                'EM_PPC': 'PowerPC',
                'EM_PPC64': 'PowerPC64',
                'EM_SPARC': 'SPARC',
                'EM_RISCV': 'RISC-V'
            }

            return arch_map.get(machine, machine)

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(get_arch)
            return result if result is not None else "unknown"
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting architecture: {e}")
            return "unknown"

    def _get_endianness(self):
        """Get the endianness of the ELF binary."""
        def get_endian(elf):
            data_encoding = elf.header.get('e_ident', {}).get('EI_DATA')
            if data_encoding == 'ELFDATA2LSB':
                return "little"
            elif data_encoding == 'ELFDATA2MSB':
                return "big"
            return "unknown"

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(get_endian)
            return result if result is not None else "unknown"
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting endianness: {e}")
            return "unknown"

    def _get_file_type(self):
        """Get the file type of the ELF binary."""
        def get_file_type(elf):
            etype = elf.header.get('e_type', 'ET_NONE')

            # Map file types to readable names
            type_map = {
                'ET_NONE': 'none',
                'ET_REL': 'relocatable',
                'ET_EXEC': 'executable',
                'ET_DYN': 'shared_object',
                'ET_CORE': 'core_dump'
            }

            return type_map.get(etype, etype)

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(get_file_type)
            return result if result is not None else "unknown"
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting file type: {e}")
            return "unknown"

    def _is_pie(self):
        """Check if the ELF binary is position-independent executable."""
        def check_pie(elf):
            # PIE binaries are typically ET_DYN type
            etype = elf.header.get('e_type', 'ET_NONE')
            if etype == 'ET_DYN':
                # Check if it has an entry point (executable) vs library
                entry_point = elf.header.get('e_entry', 0)
                return entry_point > 0
            return False

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_pie)
            return bool(result)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking PIE: {e}")
            return False

    def _has_stack_protection(self):
        """Check if the binary has stack protection (canaries)."""
        def check_stack_protection(elf):
            # Look for stack protection symbols
            stack_symbols = ['__stack_chk_fail', '__stack_chk_guard']

            for section in elf.iter_sections():
                if hasattr(section, 'iter_symbols'):
                    for symbol in section.iter_symbols():
                        if symbol.name in stack_symbols:
                            return True
            return False

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_stack_protection)
            return bool(result)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking stack protection: {e}")
            return False

    def _has_nx_bit(self):
        """Check if the binary has NX bit (non-executable stack)."""
        def check_nx_bit(elf):
            # Look for GNU_STACK segment
            for segment in elf.iter_segments():
                if segment.header.get('p_type') == 'PT_GNU_STACK':
                    flags = segment.header.get('p_flags', 0)
                    # Check if execute flag is NOT set (NX enabled)
                    return not (flags & 0x1)  # PF_X = 0x1
            return False

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_nx_bit)
            return bool(result)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking NX bit: {e}")
            return False

    def _has_relro(self):
        """Check if the binary has RELRO (Relocation Read-Only)."""
        def check_relro(elf):
            # Look for GNU_RELRO segment
            for segment in elf.iter_segments():
                if segment.header.get('p_type') == 'PT_GNU_RELRO':
                    return True
            return False

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_relro)
            return bool(result)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking RELRO: {e}")
            return False

    def _get_build_id(self):
        """Extract build ID from notes section."""
        def get_build_id(elf):
            # Look for build ID in notes sections
            for section in elf.iter_sections():
                if section.name == '.note.gnu.build-id':
                    for note in section.iter_notes():
                        if note['n_type'] == 'NT_GNU_BUILD_ID':
                            # Convert bytes to hex string
                            build_id = note['n_desc']
                            if isinstance(build_id, bytes):
                                return build_id.hex()
                            return str(build_id)
            return None

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(get_build_id)
            return result
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting build ID: {e}")
            return None

    def _count_sections(self):
        """Count the number of sections in the ELF file."""
        def count_sections(elf):
            return elf.header.get('e_shnum', 0)

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(count_sections)
            return result if result is not None else 0
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error counting sections: {e}")
            return 0

    def _count_segments(self):
        """Count the number of segments (program headers) in the ELF file."""
        def count_segments(elf):
            return elf.header.get('e_phnum', 0)

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(count_segments)
            return result if result is not None else 0
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error counting segments: {e}")
            return 0

    def _count_symbols(self):
        """Count the total number of symbols in symbol tables."""
        def count_symbols(elf):
            symbol_count = 0
            for section in elf.iter_sections():
                if hasattr(section, 'iter_symbols'):
                    symbol_count += section.num_symbols()
            return symbol_count

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(count_symbols)
            return result if result is not None else 0
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error counting symbols: {e}")
            return 0

    def _get_dependencies(self):
        """Get list of dynamic dependencies."""
        def get_dependencies(elf):
            dependencies = []
            dynamic_section = elf.get_section_by_name('.dynamic')
            if dynamic_section:
                for tag in dynamic_section.iter_tags():
                    if tag.entry.d_tag == 'DT_NEEDED':
                        dependencies.append(tag.needed)
            return dependencies

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(get_dependencies)
            return result if result is not None else []
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting dependencies: {e}")
            return []