Maged M. Michael

48 papers A* 14A 4B 7C 1Journal 14Unranked 8
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2020 A* conf
PODC
Maged M. Michael
2019 B conf
ICPP
Tingzhe Zhou, Maged M. Michael, Michael F. Spear
2015 J jnl
ACM SIGPLAN Notices
Maged M. Michael
2015 A* conf
ISCA
Takuya Nakaike, Rei Odaira, Matthew Gaudet, Maged M. Michael, Hisanobu Tomari
2015 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Computers
Amy Wang, Matthew Gaudet, Peng Wu, Martin Ohmacht, José Nelson Amaral, Christopher Barton, Raúl Silvera, Maged M. Michael
2015 J jnl
IBM J. Res. Dev.
Hung Q. Le, Guy L. Guthrie, Derek Williams, Maged M. Michael, Brad Frey, William J. Starke, Cathy May, Rei Odaira, Takuya Nakaike
2013 A* conf
ISCA
Harold W. Cain, Maged M. Michael, Brad Frey, Cathy May, Derek Williams, Hung Q. Le
2013 J jnl
ACM Queue
Maged M. Michael
2013 J jnl
Commun. ACM
Maged M. Michael
2012 B conf
PACT
Amy Wang, Matthew Gaudet, Peng Wu, José Nelson Amaral, Martin Ohmacht, Christopher Barton, Raúl Silvera, Maged M. Michael
2011 A* conf
POPL
Hagit Attiya, Rachid Guerraoui, Danny Hendler, Petr Kuznetsov, Maged M. Michael, Martin T. Vechev
2010 conf
IWOMP
Michael Wong, Barna L. Bihari, Bronis R. de Supinski, Peng Wu, Maged M. Michael, Yan Liu, Wang Chen
2010 A* conf
PLDI
Takuya Nakaike, Maged M. Michael
2010 A* conf
CAV
Maged M. Michael
2010 conf
IISWC
Takuya Nakaike, Rei Odaira, Toshio Nakatani, Maged M. Michael
2010 J jnl
ACM SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev.
Paul E. McKenney, Maged M. Michael, Josh Triplett, Jonathan Walpole
2009 J jnl
Concurr. Comput. Pract. Exp.
Peng Wu, Maged M. Michael, Christoph von Praun, Takuya Nakaike, Rajesh Bordawekar, Harold W. Cain, Calin Cascaval, Siddhartha Chatterjee, Stefanie Chiras, Rui Hou, Mark F. Mergen, Xiaowei Shen, Michael F. Spear, Huayong Wang, Kun Wang
2009 B conf
PPoPP
Maged M. Michael, Martin T. Vechev, Vijay A. Saraswat
2009 A conf
CGO
Michael F. Spear, Maged M. Michael, Michael L. Scott, Peng Wu
2008 B conf
ICPP
Michael F. Spear, Michael Silverman, Luke Dalessandro, Maged M. Michael, Michael L. Scott
2008 B conf
SPAA
Michael F. Spear, Maged M. Michael, Christoph von Praun
2008 J jnl
ACM Queue
Calin Cascaval, Colin Blundell, Maged M. Michael, Harold W. Cain, Peng Wu, Stefanie Chiras, Siddhartha Chatterjee
2008 J jnl
Commun. ACM
Calin Cascaval, Colin Blundell, Maged M. Michael, Harold W. Cain, Peng Wu, Stefanie Chiras, Siddhartha Chatterjee
2007 B conf
PPoPP
Vijay A. Saraswat, Radha Jagadeesan, Maged M. Michael, Christoph von Praun
2007 conf
Euro-Par
Robert W. Wisniewski, Reza Azimi, Mathieu Desnoyers, Maged M. Michael, José E. Moreira, Doron Shiloach, Livio Soares
2007 A conf
ICS
José E. Moreira, Maged M. Michael, Dilma Da Silva, Doron Shiloach, Parijat Dube, Li Zhang
2007 A conf
IPDPS
Maged M. Michael, José E. Moreira, Doron Shiloach, Robert W. Wisniewski
2007 conf
PLOS@SOSP
Paul E. McKenney, Maged M. Michael, Jonathan Walpole
2004 A* conf
PODC
Maged M. Michael
2004 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Parallel Distributed Syst.
Maged M. Michael
2004 A conf
DISC
Maged M. Michael
2004 A* conf
PLDI
Maged M. Michael
2003 conf
Euro-Par
Maged M. Michael
2002 B conf
SPAA
Maged M. Michael
2002 A* conf
PODC
Maged M. Michael
2001 J jnl
IBM J. Res. Dev.
Ashwini K. Nanda, Anthony-Trung Nguyen, Maged M. Michael, Douglas J. Joseph
2000 A* conf
HPCA
Ashwini K. Nanda, Anthony-Trung Nguyen, Maged M. Michael, Douglas J. Joseph
1999 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Computers
Maged M. Michael, Ashwini K. Nanda, Beng-Hong Lim
1999 A* conf
HPCA
Maged M. Michael, Ashwini K. Nanda
1998 J jnl
J. Parallel Distributed Comput.
Maged M. Michael, Michael L. Scott
1998 conf
IPPS/SPDP
Ashwini K. Nanda, Yiming Hu, Moriyoshi Ohara, Caroline Benveniste, Mark Giampapa, Maged M. Michael
1997 conf
IPPS
Anthony-Trung Nguyen, Pradip Bose, Kattamuri Ekanadham, Ashwini K. Nanda, Maged M. Michael
1997 A* conf
ISCA
Maged M. Michael, Ashwini K. Nanda, Beng-Hong Lim, Michael L. Scott
1997 conf
IPPS
Maged M. Michael, Michael L. Scott
1996 J jnl
Inf. Process. Lett.
Galen C. Hunt, Maged M. Michael, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Michael L. Scott
1996 A* conf
PODC
Maged M. Michael, Michael L. Scott
1996 C conf
ICCD
Anthony-Trung Nguyen, Maged M. Michael, Arun Sharma, Josep Torrellas
1995 A* conf
HPCA
Maged M. Michael, Michael L. Scott
redb/ext/spoof_check.py
← Index redb/ext/spoof_check.py python
import copy
import struct
from enum import Enum

"""
Checks that the metadata within a file's Rich header does not contradict the
other metadata contained within it.

References:
    https://gist.github.com/skochinsky/07c8e95e33d9429d81a75622b5d24c8b
    https://www.sec.in.tum.de/i20/publications/finding-the-needle-a-study-of-
    the-pe32-rich-header-and-respective-malware-triage
"""

KNOWN_PRODUCT_IDS = {
    0: "Unknown",
    1: "Import0",
    2: "Linker510",
    3: "Cvtomf510",
    4: "Linker600",
    5: "Cvtomf600",
    6: "Cvtres500",
    7: "Utc11_Basic",
    8: "Utc11_C",
    9: "Utc12_Basic",
    10: "Utc12_C",
    11: "Utc12_CPP",
    12: "AliasObj60",
    13: "VisualBasic60",
    14: "Masm613",
    15: "Masm710",
    16: "Linker511",
    17: "Cvtomf511",
    18: "Masm614",
    19: "Linker512",
    20: "Cvtomf512",
    21: "Utc12_C_Std",
    22: "Utc12_CPP_Std",
    23: "Utc12_C_Book",
    24: "Utc12_CPP_Book",
    25: "Implib700",
    26: "Cvtomf700",
    27: "Utc13_Basic",
    28: "Utc13_C",
    29: "Utc13_CPP",
    30: "Linker610",
    31: "Cvtomf610",
    32: "Linker601",
    33: "Cvtomf601",
    34: "Utc12_1_Basic",
    35: "Utc12_1_C",
    36: "Utc12_1_CPP",
    37: "Linker620",
    38: "Cvtomf620",
    39: "AliasObj70",
    40: "Linker621",
    41: "Cvtomf621",
    42: "Masm615",
    43: "Utc13_LTCG_C",
    44: "Utc13_LTCG_CPP",
    45: "Masm620",
    46: "ILAsm100",
    47: "Utc12_2_Basic",
    48: "Utc12_2_C",
    49: "Utc12_2_CPP",
    50: "Utc12_2_C_Std",
    51: "Utc12_2_CPP_Std",
    52: "Utc12_2_C_Book",
    53: "Utc12_2_CPP_Book",
    54: "Implib622",
    55: "Cvtomf622",
    56: "Cvtres501",
    57: "Utc13_C_Std",
    58: "Utc13_CPP_Std",
    59: "Cvtpgd1300",
    60: "Linker622",
    61: "Linker700",
    62: "Export622",
    63: "Export700",
    64: "Masm700",
    65: "Utc13_POGO_I_C",
    66: "Utc13_POGO_I_CPP",
    67: "Utc13_POGO_O_C",
    68: "Utc13_POGO_O_CPP",
    69: "Cvtres700",
    70: "Cvtres710p",
    71: "Linker710p",
    72: "Cvtomf710p",
    73: "Export710p",
    74: "Implib710p",
    75: "Masm710p",
    76: "Utc1310p_C",
    77: "Utc1310p_CPP",
    78: "Utc1310p_C_Std",
    79: "Utc1310p_CPP_Std",
    80: "Utc1310p_LTCG_C",
    81: "Utc1310p_LTCG_CPP",
    82: "Utc1310p_POGO_I_C",
    83: "Utc1310p_POGO_I_CPP",
    84: "Utc1310p_POGO_O_C",
    85: "Utc1310p_POGO_O_CPP",
    86: "Linker624",
    87: "Cvtomf624",
    88: "Export624",
    89: "Implib624",
    90: "Linker710",
    91: "Cvtomf710",
    92: "Export710",
    93: "Implib710",
    94: "Cvtres710",
    95: "Utc1310_C",
    96: "Utc1310_CPP",
    97: "Utc1310_C_Std",
    98: "Utc1310_CPP_Std",
    99: "Utc1310_LTCG_C",
    100: "Utc1310_LTCG_CPP",
    101: "Utc1310_POGO_I_C",
    102: "Utc1310_POGO_I_CPP",
    103: "Utc1310_POGO_O_C",
    104: "Utc1310_POGO_O_CPP",
    105: "AliasObj710",
    106: "AliasObj710p",
    107: "Cvtpgd1310",
    108: "Cvtpgd1310p",
    109: "Utc1400_C",
    110: "Utc1400_CPP",
    111: "Utc1400_C_Std",
    112: "Utc1400_CPP_Std",
    113: "Utc1400_LTCG_C",
    114: "Utc1400_LTCG_CPP",
    115: "Utc1400_POGO_I_C",
    116: "Utc1400_POGO_I_CPP",
    117: "Utc1400_POGO_O_C",
    118: "Utc1400_POGO_O_CPP",
    119: "Cvtpgd1400",
    120: "Linker800",
    121: "Cvtomf800",
    122: "Export800",
    123: "Implib800",
    124: "Cvtres800",
    125: "Masm800",
    126: "AliasObj800",
    127: "PhoenixPrerelease",
    128: "Utc1400_CVTCIL_C",
    129: "Utc1400_CVTCIL_CPP",
    130: "Utc1400_LTCG_MSIL",
    131: "Utc1500_C",
    132: "Utc1500_CPP",
    133: "Utc1500_C_Std",
    134: "Utc1500_CPP_Std",
    135: "Utc1500_CVTCIL_C",
    136: "Utc1500_CVTCIL_CPP",
    137: "Utc1500_LTCG_C",
    138: "Utc1500_LTCG_CPP",
    139: "Utc1500_LTCG_MSIL",
    140: "Utc1500_POGO_I_C",
    141: "Utc1500_POGO_I_CPP",
    142: "Utc1500_POGO_O_C",
    143: "Utc1500_POGO_O_CPP",
    144: "Cvtpgd1500",
    145: "Linker900",
    146: "Export900",
    147: "Implib900",
    148: "Cvtres900",
    149: "Masm900",
    150: "AliasObj900",
    151: "Resource900",
    152: "AliasObj1000",
    154: "Cvtres1000",
    155: "Export1000",
    156: "Implib1000",
    157: "Linker1000",
    158: "Masm1000",
    170: "Utc1600_C",
    171: "Utc1600_CPP",
    172: "Utc1600_CVTCIL_C",
    173: "Utc1600_CVTCIL_CPP",
    174: "Utc1600_LTCG_C ",
    175: "Utc1600_LTCG_CPP",
    176: "Utc1600_LTCG_MSIL",
    177: "Utc1600_POGO_I_C",
    178: "Utc1600_POGO_I_CPP",
    179: "Utc1600_POGO_O_C",
    180: "Utc1600_POGO_O_CPP",
    183: "Linker1010",
    184: "Export1010",
    185: "Implib1010",
    186: "Cvtres1010",
    187: "Masm1010",
    188: "AliasObj1010",
    199: "AliasObj1100",
    201: "Cvtres1100",
    202: "Export1100",
    203: "Implib1100",
    204: "Linker1100",
    205: "Masm1100",
    206: "Utc1700_C",
    207: "Utc1700_CPP",
    208: "Utc1700_CVTCIL_C",
    209: "Utc1700_CVTCIL_CPP",
    210: "Utc1700_LTCG_C ",
    211: "Utc1700_LTCG_CPP",
    212: "Utc1700_LTCG_MSIL",
    213: "Utc1700_POGO_I_C",
    214: "Utc1700_POGO_I_CPP",
    215: "Utc1700_POGO_O_C",
    216: "Utc1700_POGO_O_CPP",
    219: "Cvtres1200",
    220: "Export1200",
    221: "Implib1200",
    222: "Linker1200",
    223: "Masm1200",
    # Speculation
    224: "AliasObj1200",
    237: "Cvtres1210",
    238: "Export1210",
    239: "Implib1210",
    240: "Linker1210",
    241: "Masm1210",
    # Speculation
    242: "Utc1810_C",
    243: "Utc1810_CPP",
    244: "Utc1810_CVTCIL_C",
    245: "Utc1810_CVTCIL_CPP",
    246: "Utc1810_LTCG_C ",
    247: "Utc1810_LTCG_CPP",
    248: "Utc1810_LTCG_MSIL",
    249: "Utc1810_POGO_I_C",
    250: "Utc1810_POGO_I_CPP",
    251: "Utc1810_POGO_O_C",
    252: "Utc1810_POGO_O_CPP",
    255: "Cvtres1400",
    256: "Export1400",
    257: "Implib1400",
    258: "Linker1400",
    259: "Masm1400",
    260: "Utc1900_C",
    261: "Utc1900_CPP",
    # Speculation
    262: "Utc1900_CVTCIL_C",
    263: "Utc1900_CVTCIL_CPP",
    264: "Utc1900_LTCG_C ",
    265: "Utc1900_LTCG_CPP",
    266: "Utc1900_LTCG_MSIL",
    267: "Utc1900_POGO_I_C",
    268: "Utc1900_POGO_I_CPP",
    269: "Utc1900_POGO_O_C",
    270: "Utc1900_POGO_O_CPP",
}


class Result(Enum):
    VALID = 0
    INVALID = 1
    UNABLE_TO_PARSE = 2


def _rol(val, num):
    """Rotates val to the left by num bits."""
    return ((val << (num % 32)) & 0xFFFFFFFF) | (val >> (32 - (num % 32)))


def checksum_test(pe, rich_header):
    """Tests that the Rich header checksum is valid.

    Computes what the Rich header checksum should be. If the Rich header
    contains a different checksum value, this function returns INVALID
    This indicates that either the Rich header or MS-DOS stub has been modified

    The Rich header checksum is computed from the following:
        Length of the MS-DOS stub
        Contents of the MS-DOS stub, with e_lfanew zeroed out
        Rich header @Comp.IDs and lowest 5 bits of each count
    """
    if rich_header is None:
        rich_header = {}
    # Checksum stored in Rich header
    rich_checksum = rich_header.get("checksum", None)

    # Get DOS header data
    if pe.DOS_HEADER.e_lfanew > len(pe.__data__):
        return Result.UNABLE_TO_PARSE
    data = pe.__data__[: pe.DOS_HEADER.e_lfanew]

    # Get start marker
    mask = 0x536E6144  # DanS (little-endian)
    start_marker = struct.pack(
        "<LLLL", rich_checksum ^ mask, rich_checksum, rich_checksum, rich_checksum
    )
    if not len(start_marker):
        return Result.UNABLE_TO_PARSE

    # Get index of start marker
    start_index = data.find(start_marker)
    if start_index == -1:
        return Result.UNABLE_TO_PARSE

    # Get list of @Comp.IDs and counts from Rich header
    # Elements in rich_fields at even indices are @Comp.IDs
    # Elements in rich_fields at odd indices are counts
    rich_fields = copy.deepcopy(rich_header.get("values", None))
    if len(rich_fields) % 2 != 0:
        return Result.UNABLE_TO_PARSE

    # Compute cd as MS-DOS stub portion of checksum
    # Zero out e_lfanew from 0x3c to 0x3f
    cd = 0
    for i in range(start_index):
        if i >= 0x3C and i <= 0x3F:
            cd += _rol(0, i)
        else:
            cd += _rol(data[i], i)

    # Compute cd as Rich header portion of checksum
    cr = 0
    while len(rich_fields):
        compid = rich_fields.pop(0)
        count = rich_fields.pop(0)
        cr += _rol(compid, count & 0x1F)

    # Compute checksum from MS-DOS stub start index, cd, cr
    # Only keep lowest 32 bits
    checksum = (start_index + cd + cr) & 0xFFFFFFFF

    # Compare computed checksum with the checksum in the Rich header
    if checksum != rich_checksum:
        return Result.INVALID
    else:
        return Result.VALID


def duplicate_test(pe, rich_header):
    """Checks for duplicate @Comp.IDs in the Rich header.

    If the Rich header contains duplicate entries, returns INVALID
    This indicates that the Rich header has been modified
    """
    if rich_header is None:
        rich_header = {}

    # Get list of @Comp.IDs and counts from Rich header
    # Elements in rich_fields at even indices are @Comp.IDs
    # Elements in rich_fields at odd indices are counts
    rich_fields = copy.deepcopy(rich_header.get("values", None))
    if len(rich_fields) % 2 != 0:
        return Result.UNABLE_TO_PARSE

    # Get a list of @Comp.IDs in rich_fields
    compids = []
    for i in range(len(rich_fields)):
        if i % 2 == 0:
            compids.append(rich_fields[i])

    # Check if any @Comp.IDs are duplicates
    if len(compids) != len(set(compids)):
        return Result.INVALID

    return Result.VALID


def linker_test(pe, rich_header):
    """Checks that the Rich and PE header linker versions do not conflict.

    Certain Rich Header ProdIDs correspond to linker versions
    Although they are undocumented, we have used prior research as well as our
    own to determine many of them
    There are likely more linker version ProdIDs that we have not identified

    If the linker versions conflict, this function returns INVALID
    This indicates that the Rich header or PE header has been modified
    """
    if rich_header is None:
        rich_header = {}

    # Get list of @Comp.IDs and counts from Rich header
    # Elements in rich_fields at even indices are @Comp.IDs
    # Elements in rich_fields at odd indices are counts
    rich_fields = copy.deepcopy(rich_header.get("values", None))
    if len(rich_fields) % 2 != 0:
        return Result.UNABLE_TO_PARSE

    # Get list of ProdIDs from rich_fields
    prodids = []
    for i in range(len(rich_fields)):
        if i % 2 == 0:
            prodids.append(rich_fields[i] >> 16)

    # Parse major and minor linker versions from PE header
    pe_major = pe.OPTIONAL_HEADER.MajorLinkerVersion
    pe_minor = pe.OPTIONAL_HEADER.MinorLinkerVersion

    # Iterate over Rich header ProdIDs
    found_linker = False
    for prodid in prodids:

        # Only interested in ProdIDs that correspond to linker versions
        if KNOWN_PRODUCT_IDS.get(prodid) is None:
            continue
        prodid_name = KNOWN_PRODUCT_IDS[prodid]
        if not prodid_name.startswith("Linker"):
            continue

        found_linker = True

        # Parse major and minor linker version from ProdID
        prodid_name = prodid_name[6:]
        if prodid_name.endswith("p"):
            prodid_name = prodid_name[:-1]
        rich_major = int(prodid_name[:-2])
        rich_minor = int(prodid_name[-2:])

        # Check whether the Rich and PE linker versions match
        if pe_major == rich_major and pe_minor == rich_minor:
            return Result.VALID

    if not found_linker:
        return Result.UNABLE_TO_PARSE

    return Result.INVALID


def import_count_test(pe, rich_header):
    """Checks that import0 does not conflict with the IAT import count.

    The Rich header contains a ProdID called import0
    It is related to the number of imports in the IAT, but we are unsure how
    It is never less than the number of imports in the IAT

    If import0 is less than IAT import count, this function returns INVALID
    This indicates that the Rich header or IAT has been modified
    """
    if rich_header is None:
        rich_header = {}

    # Check whether the file has an IAT
    if not hasattr(pe, "DIRECTORY_ENTRY_IMPORT"):
        return Result.UNABLE_TO_PARSE

    # Get the number of imports in the IAT
    iat_count = 0
    for entry in pe.DIRECTORY_ENTRY_IMPORT:
        for imported_function in entry.imports:
            iat_count += 1

    # Get list of @Comp.IDs and counts from Rich header
    # Elements in rich_fields at even indices are @Comp.IDs
    # Elements in rich_fields at odd indices are counts
    rich_fields = copy.deepcopy(rich_header.get("values", None))
    if len(rich_fields) % 2 != 0:
        return Result.INVALID

    # Get @Comp.ID 65536 (ProdID Import0)
    import0_count = None
    while len(rich_fields):
        compid = rich_fields.pop(0)
        count = rich_fields.pop(0)
        if compid == 65536:
            import0_count = count

    # Legitimate files never have import0_count < iat_count
    if import0_count is None:
        return Result.VALID

    if import0_count < iat_count:
        return Result.INVALID

    return Result.VALID