Karthik Lakshmanan

37 papers A 13B 3C 2Journal 7Unranked 12
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Jillian Xu, Dylan Zhou, Vinay Shukla, Yang Yang, Junrui Ruan, Shuhuai Lin, Wenfei Zou, Yinxiao Liu, Karthik Lakshmanan
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Francois Belletti, Karthik Lakshmanan, Walid Krichene, Yi-Fan Chen, John R. Anderson
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Francois Belletti, Karthik Lakshmanan, Walid Krichene, Nicolas Mayoraz, Yi-Fan Chen, John R. Anderson, Taylor Robie, Tayo Oguntebi, Dan Shirron, Amit Bleiwess
2017 A conf
RecSys
Doris Xin, Nicolas Mayoraz, Hubert Pham, Karthik Lakshmanan, John R. Anderson
2016 J jnl
NeuroImage
Ryan Brown, Karthik Lakshmanan, Guillaume Madelin, Prodromos Parasoglou
2015 J jnl
Neural Comput.
Karthik Lakshmanan, Patrick T. Sadtler, Elizabeth C. Tyler-Kabara, Aaron P. Batista, Byron M. Yu
2013 conf
ICCPS
Junsung Kim, Hyoseung Kim, Karthik Lakshmanan, Ragunathan Rajkumar
2012 conf
ISER
Karthik Lakshmanan, Apoorva Sachdev, Ziang Xie, Dmitry Berenson, Ken Goldberg, Pieter Abbeel
2012 conf
SIES
Vikram Gupta, Eduardo Tovar, Karthik Lakshmanan, Ragunathan Rajkumar
2012 J jnl
ACM Trans. Embed. Comput. Syst.
Karthik Lakshmanan, Dionisio de Niz, Ragunathan Rajkumar, Gabriel A. Moreno
2012 conf
ICCPS
Junsung Kim, Karthik Lakshmanan, Ragunathan Rajkumar
2012 A conf
IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium
Arvind Kandhalu, Karthik Lakshmanan, Junsung Kim, Ragunathan Rajkumar
2011 conf
RTCSA (2)
Vikram Gupta, Eduardo Tovar, Karthik Lakshmanan, Ragunathan Rajkumar
2011 B conf
TrustCom
Ricardo Marau, Karthik Lakshmanan, Paulo Pedreiras, Luís Almeida, Raj Rajkumar
2011 conf
RTCSA (1)
Arvind Kandhalu, Junsung Kim, Karthik Lakshmanan, Ragunathan Rajkumar
2011 A conf
IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium
Karthik Lakshmanan, Dionisio de Niz, Ragunathan Rajkumar
2011 B conf
SECON
Vikram Gupta, Junsung Kim, Aditi Pandya, Karthik Lakshmanan, Ragunathan Rajkumar, Eduardo Tovar
2011 A conf
RTSS
Shinpei Kato, Karthik Lakshmanan, Aman Kumar, Mihir Kelkar, Yutaka Ishikawa, Ragunathan Rajkumar
2011 A conf
IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium
Shinpei Kato, Karthik Lakshmanan, Yutaka Ishikawa, Ragunathan Rajkumar
2011 conf
USENIX ATC
Shinpei Kato, Karthik Lakshmanan, Ragunathan Rajkumar, Yutaka Ishikawa
2011 conf
SESENA@ICSE
Vikram Gupta, Eduardo Tovar, Luís Miguel Pinho, Junsung Kim, Karthik Lakshmanan, Ragunathan Rajkumar
2010 A conf
DATE
Karthik Lakshmanan, Gaurav Bhatia, Ragunathan Rajkumar
2010 conf
SEUS
Luís Almeida, Ricardo Marau, Karthik Lakshmanan, Raj Rajkumar
2010 C conf
CIT
Junsung Kim, Karthik Lakshmanan, Ragunathan Rajkumar
2010 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Ind. Informatics
Anthony Rowe, Karthik Lakshmanan, Haifeng Zhu, Ragunathan Rajkumar
2010 A conf
ICDCS
Karthik Lakshmanan, Dionisio de Niz, Ragunathan Rajkumar, Gabriel A. Moreno
2010 A conf
RTSS
Karthik Lakshmanan, Shinpei Kato, Ragunathan Rajkumar
2010 A conf
IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium
Karthik Lakshmanan, Ragunathan Rajkumar
2010 conf
IPSN
Arvind Kandhalu, Karthik Lakshmanan, Ragunathan Rajkumar
2010 C conf
ETFA
Ricardo Marau, Luís Almeida, Paulo Pedreiras, Karthik Lakshmanan, Ragunathan Rajkumar
2009 A conf
RTSS
Karthik Lakshmanan, Dionisio de Niz, Ragunathan Rajkumar
2009 A conf
RTSS
Dionisio de Niz, Karthik Lakshmanan, Ragunathan Rajkumar
2009 B conf
ECRTS
Karthik Lakshmanan, Ragunathan Rajkumar, John P. Lehoczky
2008 A conf
IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium
Karthik Lakshmanan, Raj Rajkumar
2008 conf
ICDCS Workshops
Karthik Lakshmanan, Raj Rajkumar
2008 A conf
RTSS
Anthony Rowe, Karthik Lakshmanan, Haifeng Zhu, Ragunathan Rajkumar
2008 conf
WICON
Anthony Rowe, Karthik Lakshmanan, Ragunathan Rajkumar
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"