Manohar Swaminathan

38 papers A* 5A 6B 1C 3Misc 4Journal 10Unranked 9
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 A conf
ASSETS
Manohar Swaminathan, Tarini Naik
2024 A* conf
CHI
Sukhnidh Kaur, Manohar Swaminathan, Kalika Bali, Aditya Vashistha
2024 J jnl
ACM J. Comput. Sustain. Soc.
Tarini Naik, Meena Elapulli Shankaranarayanan, Manohar Swaminathan, Kalika Bali, Mohit Jain
2024 J jnl
ACM J. Comput. Sustain. Soc.
Roshni Poddar, Tarini Naik, Manikanteswar Punnam, Kavyansh Chourasia, Rajeswari Pandurangan, Rajesh S. Paali, Nagarathna R. Bhat, Bhagyashree Biradar, Venkatesh Deshpande, Devidatta Ghosh, Sudipta Ray Chaudhuri, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Amit Prakash, Manohar Swaminathan
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Ishaan Watts, Varun Gumma, Aditya Yadavalli, Vivek Seshadri, Manohar Swaminathan, Sunayana Sitaram
2024 A* conf
EMNLP
Ishaan Watts, Varun Gumma, Aditya Yadavalli, Vivek Seshadri, Manohar Swaminathan, Sunayana Sitaram
2024 J jnl
J. Comput. Inf. Sci. Eng.
Abhijeet Singh Raina, Ronak R. Mohanty, Abhirath Bhuvanesh, Divya Prabha J, Manohar Swaminathan, Vinayak R. Krishnamurthy
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Nishanth Chandran, Sunayana Sitaram, Divya Gupta, Rahul Sharma, Kashish Mittal, Manohar Swaminathan
2024 conf
W4A
Taslima Akter, Manohar Swaminathan, Apu Kapadia
2023 B conf
CCGrid
Beth Plale, Preeti Malakar, Meenakshi D'Souza, Hemangee K. Kapoor, Yogesh Simmhan, Ilkay Altintas, Manohar Swaminathan
2023 A conf
ASSETS
Roshni Poddar, Pradyumna YM, Divya Prabha Jayakumar, Tarini Naik, Punyat Tripathi, Nabeel TP, Hemanth Reddy Yeddula, Pratyush Kumar, Mohit Jain, Manohar Swaminathan
2022 conf
AACL/IJCNLP (Findings)
Ishani Mondal, Sukhnidh Kaur, Kalika Bali, Aditya Vashistha, Manohar Swaminathan
2022 J jnl
IEEE Micro
Ranveer Chandra, Manohar Swaminathan, Tusher Chakraborty, Jian Ding, Zerina Kapetanovic, Peeyush Kumar, Deepak Vasisht
2022 J jnl
ACM Trans. Access. Comput.
Taslima Akter, Tousif Ahmed, Apu Kapadia, Manohar Swaminathan
2021 conf
CHI Extended Abstracts
Pradipta Biswas, Pilar Orero, Manohar Swaminathan, Kavita Krishnaswamy, Peter Robinson
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Pradipta Biswas, Pilar Orero, Manohar Swaminathan, Kavita Krishnaswamy, Peter Robinson
2021 conf
CLIHC
Giulia Barbareschi, Manohar Swaminathan, André Pimenta Freire, Catherine Holloway
2021 conf
IoTDI
Sumukh Marathe, Akshay Nambi, Manohar Swaminathan, Ronak Sutaria
2021 conf
CHI Extended Abstracts
Giulia Barbareschi, Dafne Zuleima Morgado Ramirez, Catherine Holloway, Manohar Swaminathan, Aditya Vashistha, Edward Cutrell
2021 A* conf
CHI
Mohit Jain, Nirmalendu Diwakar, Manohar Swaminathan
2021 A* conf
CHI
Gesu India, Vidhya Y, O Aishwarya, Nirmalendu Diwakar, Mohit Jain, Aditya Vashistha, Manohar Swaminathan
2021 conf
INTERACT (1)
Gesu India, Mohit Jain, Manohar Swaminathan
2021 A conf
ASSETS
Gesu India, Mohit Jain, Pallav Karya, Nirmalendu Diwakar, Manohar Swaminathan
2020 C conf
ICTD
Gesu India, Geetha Ramakrishna, Joyojeet Pal, Manohar Swaminathan
2020 Misc conf
SenSys
Sumukh Marathe, Akshay Nambi, Nishant Shrivastava, Manohar Swaminathan, Ronak Sutaria
2020 C conf
COMPASS
Dhruv Agarwal, Srinivasan Iyengar, Manohar Swaminathan, Eash Sharma, Ashish Raj, Aadithya Hatwar
2020 A conf
ASSETS
Taslima Akter, Tousif Ahmed, Apu Kapadia, Manohar Swaminathan
2019 A conf
ASSETS
Gesu India, Geetha Ramakrishna, Jyoti Bisht, Manohar Swaminathan
2019 C conf
COMPASS
Aditya Jain, Zerina Kapetanovic, Akshit Kumar, Vasuki Narasimha Swamy, Rohit Patil, Deepak Vasisht, Rahul Sharma, Manohar Swaminathan, Ranveer Chandra, Anirudh Badam, Gireeja Ranade, Sudipta N. Sinha, Akshay Uttama Nambi
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Dhruv Agarwal, Srinivasan Iyengar, Manohar Swaminathan
2019 Misc conf
SenSys
Dhruv Agarwal, Srinivasan Iyengar, Manohar Swaminathan
2018 A* conf
CHI
Venkatesh Potluri, Priyan Vaithilingam, Suresh Iyengar, Y. Vidya, Manohar Swaminathan, Gopal Srinivasa
2018 Misc conf
SenSys
Tusher Chakraborty, Akshay Uttama Nambi, Ranveer Chandra, Rahul Sharma, Manohar Swaminathan, Zerina Kapetanovic, Jonathan Appavoo
2018 Misc conf
SenSys
Tusher Chakraborty, Akshay Uttama Nambi, Ranveer Chandra, Rahul Sharma, Manohar Swaminathan, Zerina Kapetanovic
2018 J jnl
Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol.
Tousif Ahmed, Apu Kapadia, Venkatesh Potluri, Manohar Swaminathan
2018 A conf
ASSETS
Manohar Swaminathan, Sujeath Pareddy, Tanuja Sunil Sawant, Shubi Agarwal
2017 conf
CHI Extended Abstracts
Abhay Agarwal, Sujeath Pareddy, Manohar Swaminathan
2016 conf
SUI
Sujeath Pareddy, Abhay Agarwal, Manohar Swaminathan
redb/extractors/elf_extractor.py
← Index redb/extractors/elf_extractor.py python
import logging
from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod
import inspect

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

from redb.extractors.extractor import Extractor

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)


@abstractmethod
class ELFExtractor(Extractor, metaclass=ABCMeta):

    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
        )
        # Store ELF object if provided, otherwise we'll create it per-operation for security
        self._provided_elf = elf
        self._elf_file_valid = None  # Cache validity check

    def _with_elf_file(self, operation):
        """Safely execute an operation with an ELF file using context manager.

        Args:
            operation: A callable that takes an ELFFile object and returns a result

        Returns:
            The result of the operation, or None if an error occurred
        """
        if self._provided_elf:
            try:
                return operation(self._provided_elf)
            except ELFError as e:
                if "String Table not found" in str(e):
                    self.log.warning(f"String table missing in ELF {self.hash.sha256}: {e}")
                    return None
                else:
                    self.log.error(f"ELF format error {self.hash.sha256} Full error: {e}")
                    return None
            except Exception as e:
                self.log.error(f"Error processing ELF file {self.hash.sha256} Full error: {e}")
                return None

        try:
            with open(self.filepath, 'rb') as f:
                elf = ELFFile(f)
                if not elf:
                    raise ELFError("Empty file?")
                return operation(elf)
        except ELFError as e:
            if "String Table not found" in str(e):
                self.log.warning(f"String table missing in ELF {self.hash.sha256}: {e}")
                return None
            else:
                self.log.error(f"ELF format error {self.hash.sha256} Full error: {e}")
                return None
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error reading ELF file {self.hash.sha256} Full error: {e}")
            return None

    def _is_elf_file(self):
        """Check if the file is a valid ELF binary."""
        if self._elf_file_valid is not None:
            return self._elf_file_valid

        def check_elf_validity(elf):
            # pyelftools ELFFile object existing means it's valid ELF
            # Just check that we can access the header
            header = elf.header
            return header is not None

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_elf_validity)
            self._elf_file_valid = bool(result)
            return self._elf_file_valid
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking ELF file: {e}")
            self._elf_file_valid = False
            return False

    def _is_64bit(self):
        """Check if the ELF binary is 64-bit."""
        def check_64bit(elf):
            return elf.header.get('e_ident', {}).get('EI_CLASS') == 'ELFCLASS64'

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_64bit)
            return bool(result)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking ELF bitness: {e}")
            return False

    def _is_stripped(self):
        """Check if the ELF binary is stripped (no symbol table)."""
        def check_stripped(elf):
            # Look for symbol table sections
            for section in elf.iter_sections():
                if section.name in ['.symtab', '.strtab']:
                    return False
            return True

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_stripped)
            return result if result is not None else True
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking if ELF is stripped: {e}")
            return True

    def _has_debug_info(self):
        """Check if the ELF binary contains debug information."""
        def check_debug_info(elf):
            # Look for debug sections
            debug_sections = ['.debug_info', '.debug_line', '.debug_str', '.debug_abbrev']
            for section in elf.iter_sections():
                if section.name in debug_sections:
                    return True
            return False

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_debug_info)
            return bool(result)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking debug info: {e}")
            return False

    def _get_architecture(self):
        """Get the architecture of the ELF binary."""
        def get_arch(elf):
            machine = elf.header.get('e_machine', 'EM_NONE')

            # Map common machine types to readable names
            arch_map = {
                'EM_386': 'x86',
                'EM_X86_64': 'x86_64',
                'EM_ARM': 'ARM',
                'EM_AARCH64': 'ARM64',
                'EM_MIPS': 'MIPS',
                'EM_PPC': 'PowerPC',
                'EM_PPC64': 'PowerPC64',
                'EM_SPARC': 'SPARC',
                'EM_RISCV': 'RISC-V'
            }

            return arch_map.get(machine, machine)

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(get_arch)
            return result if result is not None else "unknown"
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting architecture: {e}")
            return "unknown"

    def _get_endianness(self):
        """Get the endianness of the ELF binary."""
        def get_endian(elf):
            data_encoding = elf.header.get('e_ident', {}).get('EI_DATA')
            if data_encoding == 'ELFDATA2LSB':
                return "little"
            elif data_encoding == 'ELFDATA2MSB':
                return "big"
            return "unknown"

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(get_endian)
            return result if result is not None else "unknown"
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting endianness: {e}")
            return "unknown"

    def _get_file_type(self):
        """Get the file type of the ELF binary."""
        def get_file_type(elf):
            etype = elf.header.get('e_type', 'ET_NONE')

            # Map file types to readable names
            type_map = {
                'ET_NONE': 'none',
                'ET_REL': 'relocatable',
                'ET_EXEC': 'executable',
                'ET_DYN': 'shared_object',
                'ET_CORE': 'core_dump'
            }

            return type_map.get(etype, etype)

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(get_file_type)
            return result if result is not None else "unknown"
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting file type: {e}")
            return "unknown"

    def _is_pie(self):
        """Check if the ELF binary is position-independent executable."""
        def check_pie(elf):
            # PIE binaries are typically ET_DYN type
            etype = elf.header.get('e_type', 'ET_NONE')
            if etype == 'ET_DYN':
                # Check if it has an entry point (executable) vs library
                entry_point = elf.header.get('e_entry', 0)
                return entry_point > 0
            return False

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_pie)
            return bool(result)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking PIE: {e}")
            return False

    def _has_stack_protection(self):
        """Check if the binary has stack protection (canaries)."""
        def check_stack_protection(elf):
            # Look for stack protection symbols
            stack_symbols = ['__stack_chk_fail', '__stack_chk_guard']

            for section in elf.iter_sections():
                if hasattr(section, 'iter_symbols'):
                    for symbol in section.iter_symbols():
                        if symbol.name in stack_symbols:
                            return True
            return False

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_stack_protection)
            return bool(result)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking stack protection: {e}")
            return False

    def _has_nx_bit(self):
        """Check if the binary has NX bit (non-executable stack)."""
        def check_nx_bit(elf):
            # Look for GNU_STACK segment
            for segment in elf.iter_segments():
                if segment.header.get('p_type') == 'PT_GNU_STACK':
                    flags = segment.header.get('p_flags', 0)
                    # Check if execute flag is NOT set (NX enabled)
                    return not (flags & 0x1)  # PF_X = 0x1
            return False

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_nx_bit)
            return bool(result)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking NX bit: {e}")
            return False

    def _has_relro(self):
        """Check if the binary has RELRO (Relocation Read-Only)."""
        def check_relro(elf):
            # Look for GNU_RELRO segment
            for segment in elf.iter_segments():
                if segment.header.get('p_type') == 'PT_GNU_RELRO':
                    return True
            return False

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_relro)
            return bool(result)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking RELRO: {e}")
            return False

    def _get_build_id(self):
        """Extract build ID from notes section."""
        def get_build_id(elf):
            # Look for build ID in notes sections
            for section in elf.iter_sections():
                if section.name == '.note.gnu.build-id':
                    for note in section.iter_notes():
                        if note['n_type'] == 'NT_GNU_BUILD_ID':
                            # Convert bytes to hex string
                            build_id = note['n_desc']
                            if isinstance(build_id, bytes):
                                return build_id.hex()
                            return str(build_id)
            return None

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(get_build_id)
            return result
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting build ID: {e}")
            return None

    def _count_sections(self):
        """Count the number of sections in the ELF file."""
        def count_sections(elf):
            return elf.header.get('e_shnum', 0)

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(count_sections)
            return result if result is not None else 0
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error counting sections: {e}")
            return 0

    def _count_segments(self):
        """Count the number of segments (program headers) in the ELF file."""
        def count_segments(elf):
            return elf.header.get('e_phnum', 0)

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(count_segments)
            return result if result is not None else 0
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error counting segments: {e}")
            return 0

    def _count_symbols(self):
        """Count the total number of symbols in symbol tables."""
        def count_symbols(elf):
            symbol_count = 0
            for section in elf.iter_sections():
                if hasattr(section, 'iter_symbols'):
                    symbol_count += section.num_symbols()
            return symbol_count

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(count_symbols)
            return result if result is not None else 0
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error counting symbols: {e}")
            return 0

    def _get_dependencies(self):
        """Get list of dynamic dependencies."""
        def get_dependencies(elf):
            dependencies = []
            dynamic_section = elf.get_section_by_name('.dynamic')
            if dynamic_section:
                for tag in dynamic_section.iter_tags():
                    if tag.entry.d_tag == 'DT_NEEDED':
                        dependencies.append(tag.needed)
            return dependencies

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(get_dependencies)
            return result if result is not None else []
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting dependencies: {e}")
            return []