Mahmud Hasan

24 papers A 1Misc 1Journal 18Unranked 4
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
Frontiers Artif. Intell.
Mahmud Hasan, Mathias Nthiani Muia, Md. Mahmudul Islam
2026 J jnl
Neural Comput. Appl.
Apu Bhowmick, Md. Rayhan Ahmed, Md. Ashif Mahmud Joy, Mahmud Hasan
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Md. Akmol Masud, Md Abrar Jahin, Mahmud Hasan
2024 J jnl
Comput.
El-Awady Attia, Md Maniruzzaman Miah, Abu Sayeed Arif, Ali AlArjani, Mahmud Hasan, Md. Sharif Uddin
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Mahmud Hasan
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Mahmud Hasan, Hailin Sang
2023 J jnl
Vietnam. J. Comput. Sci.
Mahmud Hasan, Labiba Islam, Ismat Jahan, Sabrina Mannan Meem, Rashedur M. Rahman
2023 conf
AsiaSim (1)
Fariha Tabassum, Imtiaj Ahmed, Mahmud Hasan, Adnan Mahmud, Abdullah Ahnaf
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Mahmud Hasan
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Mahmud Hasan, Labiba Islam, Jannatul Ferdous Ruma, Tasmiah Tahsin Mayeesha, Rashedur M. Rahman
2021 Misc conf
RoViSP
Borun Das, Mahmud Hasan, Rafi Belal
2021 J jnl
IEEE Access
Muhammad Firoz Mridha, Aklima Akter Lima, Kamruddin Nur, Sujoy Chandra Das, Mahmud Hasan, Muhammad Mohsin Kabir
2021 conf
Canadian AI
Mahmud Hasan
2021 J jnl
Adv. Eng. Softw.
Mahmud Hasan, Daniel Pérez, Yuzhong Shen, Hong Yang
2020 J jnl
Comput. Networks
Mohamed A. Nassar, Mahmud Hasan, Md Ibrahim Khan, Mirza Sultana, Md Mesbahul Hasan, Len Luxford, Peter Cole, Giles Oatley, Polychronis Koutsakis
2019 J jnl
Simul. Model. Pract. Theory
Daniel Pérez Ibañez, Mahmud Hasan, Yuzhong Shen, Hong Yang
2019 J jnl
Inf. Process. Manag.
Mahmud Hasan, Mehmet A. Orgun, Rolf Schwitter
2018 J jnl
CoRR
Atin Angrish, Benjamin Craver, Mahmud Hasan, Binil Starly
2018 J jnl
J. Inf. Sci.
Mahmud Hasan, Mehmet A. Orgun, Rolf Schwitter
2018 J jnl
EURASIP J. Image Video Process.
Mahmud Hasan, Mahmoud R. El-Sakka
2016 conf
SocInfo (1)
Mahmud Hasan, Mehmet A. Orgun, Rolf Schwitter
2016 J jnl
PeerJ Prepr.
Mahmud Hasan, Mehmet A. Orgun, Rolf Schwitter
2015 conf
ICIAR
Mahmud Hasan, Mahmoud R. El-Sakka
2013 A conf
AAMAS
Bao Vo Luong, John Thangarajah, Fabio Zambetta, Mahmud Hasan
redb/extractors/extractor.py
← Index redb/extractors/extractor.py python
import hashlib
import inspect
from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod
from dataclasses import asdict
from functools import cached_property
from datetime import datetime, timezone
import math
from typing import Counter, List, Optional, Dict, Any, Tuple
from redb import settings
from redb.models.dataclasses import Hash
from .database_exporters import DatabaseExporter, ElasticsearchExporter, ClickHouseExporter, PrintExporter

class Extractor(metaclass=ABCMeta):
    def __init__(
        self,
        filepath: str,
        log: Any,
        exporters: Optional[List[DatabaseExporter]] = None,
        index_prefix: Optional[str] = None,
        source: Optional[str] = None,
        elastic_index: Optional[str] = None,
        known_benign: bool = False,
        known_malicious: bool = False,
        precomputed_hashes: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None,
    ):
        self.log = log
        self.log.debug(f"Creating {self.__class__.__name__}")
        self.filepath = filepath
        self.source = source
        self.exporters = exporters or []
        self.index_prefix = index_prefix if index_prefix else settings.ELASTIC_BINARIES_COLLECTION
        self.elastic_index = self.index_prefix + (elastic_index if elastic_index else "")
        self.known_benign = known_benign
        self.known_malicious = known_malicious

        # Use precomputed hashes if provided (e.g., from machofile, pefile)
        # Otherwise compute them from binary
        if precomputed_hashes:
            self.md5 = precomputed_hashes.get('md5') or precomputed_hashes.get('MD5')
            self.sha1 = precomputed_hashes.get('sha1') or precomputed_hashes.get('SHA1')
            self.sha256 = precomputed_hashes.get('sha256') or precomputed_hashes.get('SHA256')
        else:
            self.md5 = hashlib.md5(self.binary).hexdigest()
            self.sha1 = hashlib.sha1(self.binary).hexdigest()
            self.sha256 = hashlib.sha256(self.binary).hexdigest()
        self.hash = Hash(self.md5, self.sha1, self.sha256)

    @cached_property
    def binary(self):
        with open(self.filepath, "rb") as f:
            data = f.read()
        return data

    @property
    @abstractmethod
    def tag(self):
        pass

    @abstractmethod
    def extract(self):
        """
        this method defines the extracted data
        """

    @staticmethod
    def process_binary_string(s):
        # Remove \x00 padding
        s = s.rstrip(b"\x00")

        # Check if there are any non-printable characters
        has_non_printable = any(byte < 32 or byte > 126 for byte in s)

        if not has_non_printable:
            # If all characters are printable, decode the string
            return s.decode()
        else:
            # If there are non-printable characters, represent them as \xDD
            return "".join(
                [
                    f"\\x{byte:02x}" if byte < 32 or byte > 126 else chr(byte)
                    for byte in s
                ]
            )

    @staticmethod
    def remove_non_utf8(binary_string):
        decoded = b""
        for i in range(len(binary_string)):
            try:
                # Try to decode each byte
                char = binary_string[i : i + 1].decode("utf-8")
                decoded += char.encode("utf-8")
            except UnicodeDecodeError:
                # Skip this byte if it can't be decoded
                continue
        return decoded

    def calculate_entropy(self, data):
        """Calculate the entropy of a chunk of data.
        Based on pefile.SectionStructure.entropy_H.
        """
        # self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)
        if not data:
            return 0.0

        if type(data) == str:
            counts = Counter(data)
            frequencies = ((i / len(data)) for i in counts.values())
            return - sum(f * math.log(f, 2) for f in frequencies)
        else:
            occurences = Counter(bytearray(data))
            entropy = 0
            for x in occurences.values():
                p_x = float(x) / len(data)
                entropy -= p_x * math.log(p_x, 2)
            return entropy

    @abstractmethod
    def prepare_export_data(self, exporter_type: str) -> Tuple[List[Any], List[str], List[str]]:
        """
        Prepare data for specific export type
        Returns:
            Tuple containing:
            - data: List of values to insert
            - column_names: List of column names
            - column_type_names: List of column types
        """
        pass

    def export_data(self):
        """Export data to all configured exporters

        Returns:
            True: Export succeeded
            False: Export failed (actual error)
            None: No data to export (not an error, e.g., no overlay, no signature)
        """
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)
        success = True
        extracted_data = self.extract()

        if extracted_data is None:
            self.log.debug("extract() returned None, skipping export")
            return None  # No data to export, not a failure
            
        for exporter in self.exporters:
            if isinstance(exporter, PrintExporter):
                # For PrintExporter, we pass the extracted data directly
                success &= exporter.export(extracted_data)
            else:
                # Get the data prepared for this specific exporter type
                export_data = self.prepare_export_data(exporter.__class__.__name__)
                
                if export_data is None:
                    self.log.debug(f"prepare_export_data returned None for {exporter.__class__.__name__}")
                    return False
                
                if isinstance(exporter, ElasticsearchExporter):
                    success &= exporter.export(
                        export_data,
                        index=self.elastic_index,
                        tag=self.tag(),
                        hashes=asdict(self.hash),
                        known_benign=self.known_benign,
                        known_malicious=self.known_malicious
                    )
                elif isinstance(exporter, ClickHouseExporter):
                    # For ClickHouse, we need to pass the table name and the prepared data
                    success &= exporter.export(
                        export_data,
                        table=self.get_clickhouse_table(),
                        # Add these parameters explicitly
                        column_names=export_data[1] if isinstance(export_data, tuple) else None,
                        column_type_names=export_data[2] if isinstance(export_data, tuple) else None
                    )
                
        return success

    @abstractmethod
    def get_clickhouse_table(self) -> str:
        """Return the appropriate ClickHouse table name"""
        pass
    # def export_to_elastic(self, list_of_dataclasses, tag=None):
    #     self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

    #     if not isinstance(list_of_dataclasses, list):
    #         self.log.error("Called export_to_elastic wrongly")

    #     now_t = datetime.now(timezone.utc).strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
    #     for dataclass_ in list_of_dataclasses:
    #         if not settings.ELASTIC_CLIENT.ping():
    #             self.log.error("[CONNECTION ERROR] ping to elastic failed")
            
    #         # Convert dataclass to dict and filter out None values
    #         document = {k: v for k, v in asdict(dataclass_).items() if v is not None}
            
    #         if tag:
    #             document["tag"] = [tag, self.tag()]
    #         else:
    #             document["tag"] = self.tag()
    #         hashes = asdict(self.hash)
    #         document |= hashes
    #         document["timestamp_utc"] = now_t
    #         # document["source"] = self.source
    #         document["known_benign"] = self.known_benign
    #         document["known_malicious"] = self.known_malicious

    #         if "_id" in document:
    #             tmp_id = document.pop("_id") + document["sha256"]
    #             _id = hashlib.sha256(tmp_id.encode()).hexdigest()
    #         else:
    #             _id = document["sha256"]

    #         # self.log.debug(f"[DEBUG] about to export {type(document)} {document}")
    #         try:
    #             doc_dump = json.dumps(document)
    #         except TypeError as e:
    #             self.log.error(
    #                 f"Failed export of document. " f"full document: {document}"
    #             )
    #             raise e

    #         # body={"doc": doc_dump,
    #         #       "doc_as_upsert": True  # Create the document if it doesn't exist
    #         # }

    #         # Check if the index exists, and create it if it doesn't
    #         # if not settings.ELASTIC_CLIENT.indices.exists(index=self.elastic_index):
    #         #     settings.ELASTIC_CLIENT.indices.create(index=self.elastic_index)
    #         # pprint(doc_dump) #DEBUG
    #         # print("[DEBUG] _id: " + _id)
    #         # print("[DEBUG] index: " + self.elastic_index)
    #         settings.ELASTIC_CLIENT.index(
    #             index=self.elastic_index, id=_id, document=doc_dump
    #         )