Maaz Amjad

30 papers B 1Journal 17Unranked 12
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Muhammad Ali Shafique, Kanwal Mehreen, Muhammad Arham, Maaz Amjad, Sabur Butt, Hamza Farooq
2025 conf
IberLEF@SEPLN
Chukwuebuka Fortunate Ijezue, Tania-Amanda Nkoyo Fredrick Eneye, Maaz Amjad
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Chukwuebuka Fortunate Ijezue, Tania-Amanda Nkoyo Fredrick Eneye, Maaz Amjad
2025 conf
IberLEF@SEPLN
GodsGift Uzor, Mohammadsaleh Pajuhanfard, Michael Beebe, Maaz Amjad, Victor S. Sheng
2025 J jnl
Inf.
Lulu Alarfaj, Jeremy Blackburn, Maaz Amjad, Jay Patel, Zeynep Ertem
2025 J jnl
Inf.
Muhammad Ahmad, Grigori Sidorov, Maaz Amjad, Iqra Ameer, Ildar Z. Batyrshin
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Sabur Butt, Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Ahmad Imam Amjad, Maaz Amjad, Hector G. Ceballos, Salud María Jiménez-Zafra
2025 J jnl
Proces. del Leng. Natural
Sabur Butt, Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Maaz Amjad, Salud María Jiménez-Zafra, Hector G. Ceballos, Grigori Sidorov
2025 J jnl
Knowl. Based Syst.
Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Sabur Butt, Maaz Amjad, Grigori Sidorov, Alexander F. Gelbukh
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Sabur Butt, Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Abdul Gafar Manuel Meque, Maaz Amjad, Héctor Gibrán Ceballos-Cancino, Grigori Sidorov, Alexander F. Gelbukh
2022 conf
FIRE
Sabur Butt, Maaz Amjad, Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Noman Ashraf, Rajesh Sharma, Grigori Sidorov, Alexander F. Gelbukh
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Maaz Amjad, Alisa Zhila, Grigori Sidorov, Andrey Labunets, Sabur Butt, Hamza Imam Amjad, Oxana Vitman, Alexander F. Gelbukh
2022 conf
FIRE (Working Notes)
Sabur Butt, Maaz Amjad, Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Noman Ashraf, Rajesh Sharma, Grigori Sidorov, Alexander F. Gelbukh
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Maaz Amjad, Grigori Sidorov, Alisa Zhila, Alexander F. Gelbukh, Paolo Rosso
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Maaz Amjad, Sabur Butt, Hamza Imam Amjad, Alisa Zhila, Grigori Sidorov, Alexander F. Gelbukh
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Maaz Amjad, Grigori Sidorov, Alisa Zhila, Alexander F. Gelbukh, Paolo Rosso
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Maaz Amjad, Sabur Butt, Hamza Imam Amjad, Grigori Sidorov, Alisa Zhila, Alexander F. Gelbukh
2021 conf
FIRE (Working Notes)
Maaz Amjad, Alisa Zhila, Grigori Sidorov, Andrey Labunets, Sabur Butt, Hamza Imam Amjad, Oxana Vitman, Alexander F. Gelbukh
2021 conf
FIRE (Working Notes)
Maaz Amjad, Sabur Butt, Hamza Imam Amjad, Alisa Zhila, Grigori Sidorov, Alexander F. Gelbukh
2021 J jnl
IEEE Access
Maaz Amjad, Noman Ashraf, Alisa Zhila, Grigori Sidorov, Arkaitz Zubiaga, Alexander F. Gelbukh
2021 conf
FIRE
Maaz Amjad, Alisa Zhila, Grigori Sidorov, Andrey Labunets, Sabur Butt, Hamza Imam Amjad, Oxana Vitman, Alexander F. Gelbukh
2021 conf
FIRE
Maaz Amjad, Sabur Butt, Hamza Imam Amjad, Alisa Zhila, Grigori Sidorov, Alexander F. Gelbukh
2020 J jnl
J. Intell. Fuzzy Syst.
Maaz Amjad, Grigori Sidorov, Alisa Zhila, Helena Gómez-Adorno, Ilia Voronkov, Alexander F. Gelbukh
2020 conf
MICAI (2)
Maaz Amjad, Yuriria Rodriguez Chavez, Zaryyab Nayab, Alisa Zhila, Grigori Sidorov, Alexander F. Gelbukh
2020 B conf
LREC
Maaz Amjad, Grigori Sidorov, Alisa Zhila
2020 J jnl
Computación y Sistemas
Mubarak Alkhatnai, Hamza Imam Amjad, Maaz Amjad, Alexander F. Gelbukh
2020 conf
FIRE (Working Notes)
Maaz Amjad, Grigori Sidorov, Alisa Zhila, Alexander F. Gelbukh, Paolo Rosso
2020 conf
FIRE
Maaz Amjad, Grigori Sidorov, Alisa Zhila, Alexander F. Gelbukh, Paolo Rosso
2019 conf
CICLing (2)
Maaz Amjad, Alexander F. Gelbukh, Ilia Voronkov, Anna Saenko
2018 J jnl
CoRR
Syeda fariha Bukhari, Maaz Amjad
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