Mahdi Zamani

58 papers A* 4A 3B 5C 1Journal 31Unranked 13
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2024 conf
ESORICS (4)
Lucien K. L. Ng, Panagiotis Chatzigiannis, Duc Viet Le, Mohsen Minaei, Ranjit Kumaresan, Mahdi Zamani
2024 J jnl
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Lucien K. L. Ng, Panagiotis Chatzigiannis, Duc Viet Le, Mohsen Minaei, Ranjit Kumaresan, Mahdi Zamani
2024 conf
ACSAC Workshops
Sunpreet S. Arora, Andrew Beams, Panagiotis Chatzigiannis, Sebastian Meiser, Karan Patel, Srinivasan Raghuraman, Peter Rindal, Harshal Shah, Yizhen Wang, Yuhang Wu, Hao Yang, Mahdi Zamani
2024 conf
ACNS (3)
Ranjit Kumaresan, Duc Viet Le, Mohsen Minaei, Srinivasan Raghuraman, Yibin Yang, Mahdi Zamani
2023 J jnl
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Yibin Yang, Mohsen Minaei, Srinivasan Raghuraman, Ranjit Kumaresan, Mahdi Zamani
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Panagiotis Chatzigiannis, Wanyun Catherine Gu, Srinivasan Raghuraman, Peter Rindal, Mahdi Zamani
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Sunpreet S. Arora, Andrew Beams, Panagiotis Chatzigiannis, Sebastian Meiser, Karan Patel, Srinivasan Raghuraman, Peter Rindal, Harshal Shah, Yizhen Wang, Yuhang Wu, Hao Yang, Mahdi Zamani
2023 J jnl
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Mohsen Minaei, Duc Viet Le, Ranjit Kumaresan, Andrew Beams, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Yibin Yang, Srinivasan Raghuraman, Panagiotis Chatzigiannis, Mahdi Zamani
2023 conf
FC Workshops
Mohsen Minaei, Panagiotis Chatzigiannis, Shan Jin, Srinivasan Raghuraman, Ranjit Kumaresan, Mahdi Zamani, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez
2023 J jnl
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Mohsen Minaei, Panagiotis Chatzigiannis, Shan Jin, Srinivasan Raghuraman, Ranjit Kumaresan, Mahdi Zamani, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez
2022 J jnl
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Mustafa Safa Özdayi, Yue Guo, Mahdi Zamani
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Rongjian Lan, Ganesha Upadhyaya, Stephen Tse, Mahdi Zamani
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Mihai Christodorescu, Erin English, Wanyun Catherine Gu, David Kreissman, Ranjit Kumaresan, Mohsen Minaei, Srinivasan Raghuraman, Cuy Sheffield, Arjuna Wijeyekoon, Mahdi Zamani
2020 A* conf
SP
Benedikt Bünz, Lucianna Kiffer, Loi Luu, Mahdi Zamani
2020 J jnl
Proc. Priv. Enhancing Technol.
Ludovic Barman, Italo Dacosta, Mahdi Zamani, Ennan Zhai, Apostolos Pyrgelis, Bryan Ford, Joan Feigenbaum, Jean-Pierre Hubaux
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Mihai Christodorescu, Wanyun Catherine Gu, Ranjit Kumaresan, Mohsen Minaei, Mustafa Özdayi, Benjamin Price, Srinivasan Raghuraman, Muhammad Saad, Cuy Sheffield, Minghua Xu, Mahdi Zamani
2020 conf
Financial Cryptography
Benedikt Bünz, Shashank Agrawal, Mahdi Zamani, Dan Boneh
2019 A* conf
PODC
Abhinav Aggarwal, Mahnush Movahedi, Jared Saia, Mahdi Zamani
2019 J jnl
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Benedikt Bünz, Lucianna Kiffer, Loi Luu, Mahdi Zamani
2019 J jnl
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Benedikt Bünz, Shashank Agrawal, Mahdi Zamani, Dan Boneh
2018 J jnl
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Mahdi Zamani, Mahnush Movahedi, Mariana Raykova
2018 A* conf
CCS
Mahdi Zamani, Mahnush Movahedi, Mariana Raykova
2017 J jnl
CoRR
Ludovic Barman, Italo Dacosta, Mahdi Zamani, Ennan Zhai, Bryan Ford, Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Joan Feigenbaum
2017 J jnl
CoRR
Abhinav Aggarwal, Mahdi Zamani, Mihai Christodorescu
2017 J jnl
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Varsha Dani, Valerie King, Mahnush Movahedi, Jared Saia, Mahdi Zamani
2017 J jnl
Distributed Comput.
Varsha Dani, Valerie King, Mahnush Movahedi, Jared Saia, Mahdi Zamani
2017 C conf
SSS
Mahdi Zamani, Jared Saia, Jedidiah R. Crandall
2016 conf
WPES@CCS
Ludovic Barman, Mahdi Zamani, Italo Dacosta, Joan Feigenbaum, Bryan Ford, Jean-Pierre Hubaux, David Wolinsky
2016 J jnl
CoRR
Mahdi Zamani, Jared Saia, Jedidiah R. Crandall
2015 B conf
SOFSEM
Jared Saia, Mahdi Zamani
2015 J jnl
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Mahnush Movahedi, Jared Saia, Mahdi Zamani
2015 B conf
SIROCCO
Mahnush Movahedi, Jared Saia, Mahdi Zamani
2015 A conf
ICDCS
Mahnush Movahedi, Jared Saia, Mahdi Zamani
2014 J jnl
CoRR
Mahdi Zamani, Mahnush Movahedi, Mohammad Mehdi Ebadzadeh, Hossein Pedram
2014 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory
Mahdi Zamani, Amir Keyvan Khandani
2014 J jnl
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Mahdi Zamani, Mahnush Movahedi, Jared Saia
2014 J jnl
CoRR
Mahnush Movahedi, Mahdi Zamani
2014 A conf
DISC
Mahnush Movahedi, Mahdi Zamani
2014 conf
OFC
Chen Chen, Mahdi Zamani, Zhuhong Zhang, Chuandong Li
2014 J jnl
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Jared Saia, Mahdi Zamani
2014 A conf
DISC
Mahnush Movahedi, Jared Saia, Mahdi Zamani
2014 J jnl
CoRR
Mahnush Movahedi, Jared Saia, Mahdi Zamani
2014 conf
FOMC
Mahdi Zamani, Mahnush Movahedi
2013 conf
OFC/NFOEC
Mahdi Zamani, Chuandong Li, Chen Chen, Zhuhong Zhang
2013 A* conf
PODC
Josh R. Karlin, Joud S. Khoury, Jared Saia, Mahdi Zamani
2013 conf
OFC/NFOEC
Chen Chen, Chuandong Li, Mahdi Zamani, Zhuhong Zhang
2013 J jnl
CoRR
Mahdi Zamani
2013 conf
OFC/NFOEC
Mahdi Zamani, Zhuhong Zhang, Chen Chen, Chuandong Li
2013 conf
FOCI
Mahdi Zamani, Jared Saia, Mahnush Movahedi, Joud S. Khoury
2012 J jnl
CoRR
Mahdi Zamani, Amir K. Khandani
2012 B conf
ISIT
Mahdi Zamani, Amir K. Khandani
2012 J jnl
CoRR
Mahdi Zamani, Amir K. Khandani
2012 B conf
ISIT
Mahdi Zamani, Amir K. Khandani
2012
Mahdi Zamani
2011 B conf
ISIT
Mahdi Zamani, Amir K. Khandani
2009 conf
CIS (1)
Mahdi Zamani, Mahnush Movahedi, Mohammad Mehdi Ebadzadeh, Hossein Pedram
2009 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Commun.
Mahdi Zamani, Farshad Lahouti
2008 J jnl
IET Commun.
Mahdi Zamani, Farshad Lahouti
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