Nan Li

28 papers B 2C 2Journal 15Unranked 8
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun.
Tingting Yang, Ping Zhang, Mengfan Zheng, Yuxuan Shi, Liwen Jing, Jianbo Huang, Nan Li
2025 conf
ICC Workshops
Chao Zhou, Zhengquan Zhang, Xinyu Liu, Yue Xiao, Nan Li, Zheng Ma, Ming Xiao
2025 conf
INFOCOM WKSHPS
Tingting Yang, Ping Zhang, Mengfan Zheng, Nan Li, Shuai Ma
2025 B conf
WCNC
Jiale Wang, Nan Li, Xinghan Wang, Tingting Yang
2025 B conf
IWCMC
Chao Zhou, Zhengquan Zhang, Xiaoxu Zhang, Nan Li, Zheng Ma, Ming Xiao
2025 J jnl
IEEE Internet Things J.
Shuai Ma, Bin Shen, Chuanhui Zhang, Hang Li, Nan Li, Jinjin Chai, Chuan Huang, Shiyin Li, Guangming Shi
2025 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Serv. Comput.
Lingzheng Kong, Tingting Yang, Nan Li, Kaoru Ota, Mianxiong Dong
2025 J jnl
IEEE Netw.
Tingting Yang, Ping Zhang, Mengfan Zheng, Yuxuan Shi, Liwen Jing, Jianbo Huang, Nan Li
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Tingting Yang, Ping Zhang, Mengfan Zheng, Yuxuan Shi, Liwen Jing, Jianbo Huang, Nan Li
2024 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Consumer Electron.
Yanrui Wang, Yue Xiao, Ming Xiao, Nan Li
2024 conf
BCB
Zengding Liu, Chen Chen, Jiannong Cao, Minglei Pan, Jikui Liu, Nan Li, Fen Miao, Ye Li
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Zengding Liu, Chen Chen, Jiannong Cao, Minglei Pan, Jikui Liu, Nan Li, Fen Miao, Ye Li
2023 J jnl
Secur. Saf.
Nan Li, Minxian Xu, Qimeng Li, Jikui Liu, Shudi Bao, Ye Li, Jianzhong Li, Hairong Zheng
2023 J jnl
IEEE Internet Things J.
Yufeng Han, Yue Xiao, Yulan Gao, Mingming Wu, Nan Li, Wei Xiang
2021 C conf
ICCC
Linfei Xu, Nan Li, Wei Xiang, Sen Wang, Lu Dai, Jing Jin, Hang Long
2021 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Ind. Informatics
Nan Li, Ming Xiao, Lars K. Rasmussen, Xiping Hu, Victor C. M. Leung
2020 conf
ICC Workshops
Jing Dong, Hanning Wang, Guangyi Liu, Qixing Wang, Jing Jin, Nan Li, Liang Xia
2020 C conf
HealthCom
Nan Li, Xiping Hu, Edith C. H. Ngai, Erol Gelenbe
2019 J jnl
IEEE Internet Things J.
Nan Li, Ming Xiao, Lars Kildehoj Rasmussen
2018 conf
VTC Spring
Nan Li, Ming Xiao, Lars K. Rasmussen
2018 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Ind. Informatics
Nan Li, Ming Xiao, Lars K. Rasmussen
2018 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol.
Nan Li, Lars K. Rasmussen, Ming Xiao
2018
Nan Li
2015 J jnl
CoRR
Nan Li, Lars K. Rasmussen, Ming Xiao
2014 conf
VTC Fall
Nan Li, Ming Xiao, Lars K. Rasmussen
2014 J jnl
IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun.
Frederic Gabry, Nan Li, Nicolas Schrammar, Maksym A. Girnyk, Lars K. Rasmussen, Mikael Skoglund
2012 conf
ICC
Frederic Gabry, Nicolas Schrammar, Maksym A. Girnyk, Nan Li, Ragnar Thobaben, Lars K. Rasmussen
2012 conf
Future Network & Mobile Summit
Frederic Gabry, Nan Li, Nicolas Schrammar, Maksym A. Girnyk, Eleftherios Karipidis, Ragnar Thobaben, Lars K. Rasmussen, Erik G. Larsson, Mikael Skoglund
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
    #         )