Karim Ansari-Asl

28 papers B 1Misc 1Journal 23Unranked 3
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
IEEE Access
Seyed Hadi Shafiei, Yousef Seifi Kavian, Karim Ansari-Asl
2025 J jnl
IEEE Access
Mohabbat Zardkoohi, Yousef Seifi Kavian, Karim Ansari-Asl
2024 J jnl
Circuits Syst. Signal Process.
Mayadeh Kouti, Karim Ansari-Asl, Ehsan Namjoo
2024 J jnl
Medical Biol. Eng. Comput.
Mayadeh Kouti, Karim Ansari-Asl, Ehsan Namjoo
2024 J jnl
IEEE Access
Ehsan Monjezi, Gholamreza Akbarizadeh, Karim Ansari-Asl
2023 J jnl
IEEE Access
Hassoon Salman Fahama, Karim Ansari-Asl, Yousef Seifi Kavian, Mehdi Naderi Soorki
2023 J jnl
J. Ambient Intell. Humaniz. Comput.
Amin Einipour, Mohammad Mosleh, Karim Ansari-Asl
2022 J jnl
Biomed. Signal Process. Control.
Mayadeh Kouti, Karim Ansari-Asl, Ehsan Namjoo
2022 J jnl
Photonic Netw. Commun.
Tina Daghooghi, Mohammad Soroosh, Karim Ansari-Asl
2021 J jnl
IEEE Access
Ahmad Mouri Zadeh Khaki, Ebrahim Farshidi, Karim Ansari-Asl, Sawal Hamid Md. Ali, Masuri Othman
2021 J jnl
Microelectron. J.
Ahmad Mouri Zadeh Khaki, Ebrahim Farshidi, Karim Ansari-Asl
2020 J jnl
Circuits Syst. Signal Process.
Reza Ashkiani, Alimorad Mahmoudi, Mahmood Karimi, Karim Ansari-Asl
2019 J jnl
Multim. Tools Appl.
Hamzeh Varshovi, Yousef Seifi Kavian, Karim Ansari-Asl
2019 conf
EUSIPCO
Nasrin Taheri, Amar Kachenoura, Ahmad Karfoul, Xu Han, Karim Ansari-Asl, Isabelle Merlet, Lotfi Senhadji, Laurent Albera
2018 J jnl
J. Circuits Syst. Comput.
Ava Salmanpour, Ebrahim Farshidi, Karim Ansari-Asl
2018 J jnl
Photonic Netw. Commun.
Tina Daghooghi, Mohammad Soroosh, Karim Ansari-Asl
2018 J jnl
Photonic Netw. Commun.
Mona Neisy, Mohammad Soroosh, Karim Ansari-Asl
2018 Misc conf
ACSSC
Nasrin Taheri, Xu Han, Ahmad Karfoul, Karim Ansari-Asl, Isabelle Merlet, Lotfi Senhadji, Laurent Albera, Amar Kachenoura
2018 J jnl
J. Real Time Image Process.
Vahid Rowghanian, Karim Ansari-Asl
2016 J jnl
Circuits Syst. Signal Process.
Esmaeil Fatemi-Behbahani, Karim Ansari-Asl, Ebrahim Farshidi
2016 J jnl
Integr.
Esmaeil Fatemi-Behbahani, Ebrahim Farshidi, Karim Ansari-Asl
2016 J jnl
Comput. Biol. Medicine
Maryam Songhorzadeh, Karim Ansari-Asl, Alimorad Mahmoudi
2015 conf
EMBC
Nasrin Taheri, Amar Kachenoura, Karim Ansari-Asl, Ahmad Karfoul, Lotfi Senhadji, Laurent Albera, Isabelle Merlet
2014 J jnl
Comput. Methods Programs Biomed.
Farzaneh Shayegh, Saeed Sadri, Rassoul Amirfattahi, Karim Ansari-Asl
2014 J jnl
J. Comput. Neurosci.
Farzaneh Shayegh, Saeed Sadri, Rassoul Amirfattahi, Karim Ansari-Asl
2007 conf
EUSIPCO
Karim Ansari-Asl, Guillaume Chanel, Thierry Pun
2007 B conf
SMC
Guillaume Chanel, Karim Ansari-Asl, Thierry Pun
2005 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng.
Karim Ansari-Asl, Jean-Jacques Bellanger, Fabrice Bartolomei, Fabrice Wendling, Lotfi Senhadji
redb/extractors/malcontent.py
← Index redb/extractors/malcontent.py python
import inspect
import json
import subprocess
from typing import Any
from datetime import datetime, timezone

from redb.extractors.enum import Tag
from redb.models.dataclasses import Malcontent
from redb.extractors.extractor import Extractor
from dotenv import load_dotenv
import os

load_dotenv(override=True)


class MalcontentExtractor(Extractor):
    """
    Extractor for malcontent tool from chainguard-dev/malcontent.

    Malcontent discovers supply-chain compromises through context, differential
    analysis, and 14,000+ YARA rules. It analyzes binaries and code to detect
    malicious content and suspicious behavioral patterns.

    Binary can be extracted from Docker image:
        docker cp $(docker create cgr.dev/chainguard/malcontent:latest):/usr/bin/mal /usr/local/bin/mal

    Stores full JSON output for materialized view extraction.
    """

    # Cache version at class level to avoid repeated subprocess calls
    _cached_version = None

    def __init__(
        self,
        filepath,
        log,
        exporters=None,
        index_prefix=None,
        elastic_index=None,
        known_benign=False,
        known_malicious=False,
    ):
        super().__init__(
            filepath,
            log,
            exporters,
            index_prefix,
            elastic_index,
            known_benign,
            known_malicious
        )
        self.malcontent = None

    @classmethod
    def _get_malcontent_version(cls, log) -> str:
        """Get malcontent version, cached at class level."""
        if cls._cached_version is not None:
            return cls._cached_version

        malcontent_path = os.getenv("MALCONTENT_PATH", "/usr/local/bin/mal")
        try:
            result = subprocess.run(
                [malcontent_path, "--version"],
                capture_output=True,
                text=True,
                timeout=10
            )
            version_output = result.stdout.strip()
            if result.returncode == 0 and version_output:
                # Parse "malcontent version v1.21.5" -> "1.21.5"
                if version_output.startswith("malcontent version v"):
                    version_output = version_output[len("malcontent version v"):]
                elif version_output.startswith("malcontent version "):
                    version_output = version_output[len("malcontent version "):]
                cls._cached_version = version_output
            else:
                cls._cached_version = "unknown"
        except Exception as e:
            log.warning(f"Could not get malcontent version: {e}")
            cls._cached_version = "unknown"

        return cls._cached_version

    def _extract_malcontent(self):
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)
        TIMEOUT = int(os.getenv("MALCONTENT_TIMEOUT", "300"))
        malcontent_path = os.getenv("MALCONTENT_PATH", "/usr/local/bin/mal")

        malcontent_command = [malcontent_path, "analyze", "--format=json", self.filepath]

        import signal

        try:
            process = subprocess.Popen(
                malcontent_command,
                stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
                text=True,
                preexec_fn=os.setsid
            )

            try:
                stdout, stderr = process.communicate(timeout=TIMEOUT)
                if process.returncode != 0:
                    self.log.error(f"Error running malcontent, return code: {process.returncode}, stderr: {stderr}")
                    return {}
            except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
                self.log.warning(f"The malcontent command timed out after {TIMEOUT} seconds, terminating process group")
                try:
                    os.killpg(process.pid, signal.SIGTERM)
                    try:
                        process.wait(timeout=3)
                    except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
                        self.log.warning("Process didn't terminate with SIGTERM, sending SIGKILL")
                        os.killpg(process.pid, signal.SIGKILL)
                    process.wait()
                except (ProcessLookupError, OSError) as e:
                    self.log.warning(f"Error while killing process: {e}")
                return {}

            try:
                malcontent_output = json.loads(stdout)
            except json.JSONDecodeError as e:
                self.log.error(f"Error parsing malcontent output: {e}")
                return {}

            # Unwrap the Files/<path> structure to get the inner content
            # Structure is: {"Files": {"/path/to/file": {<actual content>}}}
            files_dict = malcontent_output.get("Files", {})
            if not files_dict:
                self.log.warning("Malcontent output has no 'Files' key")
                return {}

            # Get the first (and only) file's content
            file_content = next(iter(files_dict.values()), {})
            if not file_content:
                self.log.warning("Malcontent output has empty file content")
                return {}

            # Extract risk score and level from the unwrapped content
            risk_score = file_content.get("RiskScore", 0)
            risk_level = file_content.get("RiskLevel", "")

            version = self._get_malcontent_version(self.log)

            self.malcontent = Malcontent(
                malcontent_dump=json.dumps(file_content),
                version=version,
                risk_score=risk_score,
                risk_level=risk_level
            )
            self.log.debug(f"Malcontent analysis complete, version={version}, risk={risk_level}({risk_score})")

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Unexpected error in malcontent extraction: {str(e)}")
            if 'process' in locals() and process.poll() is None:
                try:
                    os.killpg(process.pid, signal.SIGKILL)
                    process.wait()
                except:
                    pass
            return {}

    def prepare_export_data(self, exporter_type: str) -> Any:
        if exporter_type == "ClickHouseExporter":
            current_time = datetime.now(timezone.utc)

            data = [[
                self.sha256,
                current_time,
                self.malcontent.version,
                self.malcontent.risk_score,
                self.malcontent.risk_level,
                self.malcontent.malcontent_dump
            ]]

            column_names = [
                'sha256', 'analysis_date',
                'malcontent_version', 'malcontent_risk_score', 'malcontent_risk_level',
                'malcontent_json'
            ]

            column_type_names = [
                'FixedString(64)',
                'DateTime64(3, \'UTC\')',
                'LowCardinality(String)', 'UInt8', 'LowCardinality(String)',
                'JSON'
            ]

            return (data, column_names, column_type_names)

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

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

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