Mahmood Neshati

28 papers A* 2A 5C 1Misc 3Journal 14Unranked 3
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2021 Misc conf
ICTIR
Sepideh Entezari Maleki, Mahmood Neshati
2021 J jnl
Expert Syst. Appl.
Arash Dargahi Nobari, Malikeh Haj Khan Mirzaye Sarraf, Mahmood Neshati, Farnaz Erfanian Daneshvar
2021 J jnl
Expert Syst. Appl.
Peyman Rostami, Mahmood Neshati
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Omid Mohammadi Kia, Mahmood Neshati, Mahsa Soudi Alamdari
2020 J jnl
Decis. Support Syst.
Mahdi Dehghan, Ahmad Ali Abin, Mahmood Neshati
2020 J jnl
Soc. Netw. Anal. Min.
Asal Jalilvand, Mahmood Neshati
2020 J jnl
Inf. Syst.
Arash Dargahi Nobari, Mahmood Neshati, Sajad Sotudeh Gharebagh
2019 A* conf
SIGIR
Arian Askari, Asal Jalilvand, Mahmood Neshati
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Arash Dargahi Nobari, Mahmood Neshati, Sajad Sotudeh Gharebagh
2019 J jnl
Expert Syst. Appl.
Peyman Rostami, Mahmood Neshati
2018 A conf
CIKM
Arash Dargahi Nobari, Arian Askari, Faegheh Hasibi, Mahmood Neshati
2018 J jnl
CoRR
Arash Dargahi Nobari, Arian Askari, Faegheh Hasibi, Mahmood Neshati
2018 A conf
ECIR
Sajad Sotudeh Gharebagh, Peyman Rostami, Mahmood Neshati
2017 A conf
CIKM
Arash Dargahi Nobari, Negar Reshadatmand, Mahmood Neshati
2017 J jnl
Inf. Process. Manag.
Mahmood Neshati, Zohreh Fallahnejad, Hamid Beigy
2017 J jnl
Inf. Process. Manag.
Mahmood Neshati
2017 A* conf
SIGIR
Arash Dargahi Nobari, Sajad Sotudeh Gharebagh, Mahmood Neshati
2014 J jnl
Inf. Process. Manag.
Mahmood Neshati, Hamid Beigy, Djoerd Hiemstra
2014 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Cybern.
Mahmood Neshati, Seyyed Hadi Hashemi, Hamid Beigy
2014 J jnl
World Wide Web
Mahmood Neshati, Djoerd Hiemstra, Ehsaneddin Asgari, Hamid Beigy
2013 A conf
ECIR
Mahmood Neshati, Ehsaneddin Asgari, Djoerd Hiemstra, Hamid Beigy
2013 A conf
CIKM
Seyyed Hadi Hashemi, Mahmood Neshati, Hamid Beigy
2012 Misc conf
ADCS
Mahmood Neshati, Hamid Beigy, Djoerd Hiemstra
2008 Misc conf
CSICC
Mahmood Neshati, Hassan Abolhassani, Hassan Fatemi
2007 C conf
AICCSA
Kyumars Sheykh Esmaili, Hassan Abolhassani, Mahmood Neshati, Ehsan Behrangi, Asreen Rostami, Mojtaba Mohammadi Nasiri
2007 conf
OTM Conferences (1)
Mahmood Neshati, Leila Sharif Hassanabadi
2007 conf
Web Intelligence
Mahmood Neshati, Ali Alijamaat, Hassan Abolhassani, Afshin Rahimi, Mehdi Hosseini
2006 conf
Web Intelligence
Yasser Ganjisaffar, Hassan Abolhassani, Mahmood Neshati, Mohsen Jamali
redb/extractors/elf_extractors/elf_exports.py
← Index redb/extractors/elf_extractors/elf_exports.py python
import inspect
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from typing import Any, List, Set

from elftools.elf.elffile import ELFFile
from elftools.common.exceptions import ELFError

from redb.extractors.enum import Tag
from redb.extractors.elf_extractor import ELFExtractor
from redb.models.dataclasses import ELFExport


class ELFExportExtractor(ELFExtractor):

    def __init__(
        self,
        filepath,
        log,
        exporters=None,
        index_prefix=None,
        elastic_index=None,
        known_benign=False,
        known_malicious=False,
        elf=None,
    ):
        super().__init__(
            filepath,
            log,
            exporters,
            index_prefix,
            elastic_index,
            known_benign,
            known_malicious,
            elf,
        )
        self.elf_exports = None
        self.elastic_index = self.index_prefix + "-elf_exports"
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

    def _get_exported_functions_from_symbols(self, elf) -> Set[str]:
        """Extract exported functions from symbol tables."""
        exported_functions = set()

        try:
            # Check both static (.symtab) and dynamic (.dynsym) symbol tables
            symbol_sections = ['.symtab', '.dynsym']

            for section_name in symbol_sections:
                section = elf.get_section_by_name(section_name)
                if not section or not hasattr(section, 'iter_symbols'):
                    continue

                for symbol in section.iter_symbols():
                    # Check if symbol is exported (defined and globally visible)
                    if (symbol.name and
                        symbol.entry.get('st_shndx', 0) != 'SHN_UNDEF' and  # Not undefined
                        symbol.entry.get('st_info', {}).get('bind') in ['STB_GLOBAL', 'STB_WEAK'] and  # Global or weak binding
                        symbol.entry.get('st_info', {}).get('type') in ['STT_FUNC', 'STT_OBJECT']):  # Function or object

                        # Additional checks for meaningful exports
                        if (symbol.entry.get('st_value', 0) > 0 or  # Has a value
                            symbol.entry.get('st_size', 0) > 0):    # Has a size
                            exported_functions.add(symbol.name)

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting exported functions from symbols: {e}")

        return exported_functions

    def _get_exported_functions_from_dynamic_section(self, elf) -> Set[str]:
        """Extract exported functions information from dynamic section."""
        exported_functions = set()

        try:
            # Get the dynamic section
            dynamic_section = elf.get_section_by_name('.dynamic')
            if not dynamic_section:
                return exported_functions

            # Look for version definition sections that might indicate exports
            # This is complementary to symbol table analysis
            for tag in dynamic_section.iter_tags():
                if tag.entry.d_tag == 'DT_SONAME':
                    # If it has a SONAME, it's likely a shared library with exports
                    # The actual exports are still found in symbol tables
                    pass

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting exports from dynamic section: {e}")

        return exported_functions

    def _filter_meaningful_exports(self, exports: Set[str]) -> Set[str]:
        """Filter out compiler-generated and internal symbols to focus on meaningful exports."""
        filtered_exports = set()

        # Common patterns to exclude (compiler-generated, internal symbols)
        exclude_patterns = [
            '_start',
            '_init',
            '_fini',
            '__libc_',
            '__gmon_start__',
            '_IO_stdin_used',
            '__data_start',
            '__bss_start',
            '_edata',
            '_end',
            '__TMC_END__',
            '_ITM_deregisterTMCloneTable',
            '_ITM_registerTMCloneTable',
            '__cxa_finalize',
            '__gxx_personality_v0',
            '_Jv_RegisterClasses'
        ]

        for export in exports:
            # Skip empty or very short names
            if not export or len(export) < 2:
                continue

            # Skip symbols that match exclude patterns
            skip = False
            for pattern in exclude_patterns:
                if export.startswith(pattern):
                    skip = True
                    break

            # Skip symbols that look like internal mangled names (but keep reasonable C++ names)
            if export.startswith('_Z') and len(export) > 50:  # Very long mangled names
                skip = True

            if not skip:
                filtered_exports.add(export)

        return filtered_exports

    def tag(self):
        return Tag.ELF_EXPORTS.value if hasattr(Tag, 'ELF_EXPORTS') else "elf_exports"

    def extract(self):
        try:
            self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

            def extract_data(elf):
                # Extract exported functions from multiple sources
                exported_functions = set()

                # From symbol tables (primary source)
                symbol_exports = self._get_exported_functions_from_symbols(elf)
                exported_functions.update(symbol_exports)

                # From dynamic section (supplementary)
                dynamic_exports = self._get_exported_functions_from_dynamic_section(elf)
                exported_functions.update(dynamic_exports)

                # Filter out compiler-generated and internal symbols
                meaningful_exports = self._filter_meaningful_exports(exported_functions)

                # Convert to sorted list for consistent output
                export_functions_list = sorted(list(meaningful_exports))

                # Return ELFExport dataclass
                return ELFExport(
                    elf_exports_total=len(export_functions_list),
                    elf_export_functions=export_functions_list,
                )

            if not self._is_elf_file():
                return None

            result = self._with_elf_file(extract_data)
            if result is None:
                return None

            self.elf_exports = result
            return self.elf_exports

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting ELF exports {self.hash.sha256}: {e}")
            return None

    def prepare_export_data(self, exporter_type: str) -> Any:
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

        if exporter_type == "ElasticsearchExporter":
            return self.elf_exports
        elif exporter_type == "ClickHouseExporter":
            try:
                if not self.elf_exports:
                    return None

                # Prepare data array
                data = [[
                    self.sha256,
                    self.md5,
                    self.sha1,
                    self.elf_exports.elf_exports_total,
                    self.elf_exports.elf_export_functions,
                    datetime.now(timezone.utc)
                ]]

                column_names = [
                    'sha256', 'md5', 'sha1',
                    'elf_exports_total',
                    'elf_export_functions',
                    'analysis_date'
                ]

                if not data:
                    return None

                column_type_names = [
                    'FixedString(64)', 'FixedString(32)', 'FixedString(40)',
                    'UInt32',
                    'Array(LowCardinality(String))',
                    'DateTime64(3, \'UTC\')'
                ]

                return (data, column_names, column_type_names)

            except Exception as e:
                self.log.error(f"Error preparing export data: {e}")
                raise

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