Narendra Singh

34 papers C 2Misc 2Journal 25Unranked 5
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
J. Inf. Secur. Appl.
Sanaya Malik, Narendra Singh, Somanath Tripathy
2026 J jnl
Comput. Networks
Narendra Singh, Somanath Tripathy
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Jacob Helwig, Sai Sreeharsha Adavi, Xuan Zhang, Yuchao Lin, Felix S. Chim, Luke Takeshi Vizzini, Haiyang Yu, Muhammad Hasnain, Saykat Kumar Biswas, John J. Holloway, Narendra Singh, N. K. Anand, Swagnik Guhathakurta, Shuiwang Ji
2025 J jnl
J. Supercomput.
Narendra Singh, Somanath Tripathy
2025 J jnl
J. Comput. Phys.
Anthony Chang, Narendra Singh, Marco Panesi
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Ashish S. Nair, Narendra Singh, Marco Panesi, Justin A. Sirignano, Jonathan F. MacArt
2025 J jnl
Comput. Secur.
Narendra Singh, Somanath Tripathy
2024 C conf
IGARSS
Vikas Rawat, Narendra Singh, Surendra K. Dhaka, Prabir K. Patra, Yutaka Matsumi, Tomoki Nakayama, Sachiko Hayashida
2024 J jnl
Comput. Secur.
Narendra Singh, Somanath Tripathy
2024 J jnl
Int. J. Crit. Infrastructures
Pushpa Singh, Narendra Singh, Rajnesh Singh, Nishu Panwar, Sunil Gupta
2023 Misc conf
ICISS
Narendra Singh, Somanath Tripathy
2023 J jnl
Int. J. Syst. Syst. Eng.
Narendra Singh, Priyanka Gupta, Richa Sharma, Pushpa Singh, Rajnesh Singh, Sunil Gupta
2023 J jnl
Int. J. Syst. Syst. Eng.
Rajnesh Singh, Pushpa Singh, Richa Kumari Sharma, Priyanka Gupta, Narendra Singh, Sunil Gupta
2023 conf
IC3I
Anjani Kumar Rai, Parul Madan, Irfan Khan, V. Divya Vani, Rajeev Singh, Narendra Singh
2023 J jnl
Wirel. Pers. Commun.
Vikas Misra, Narendra Singh, M. Shukla
2023 C conf
IGARSS
Prity S. Pippal, Rajesh Kumar, Akshansha Chauhan, Narendra Singh, Ramesh P. Singh
2022 J jnl
Int. J. E Adopt.
Vidushi Mishra, Narendra Singh, Manisha Agarwal, Ajay Kumar Shrivastava
2022 J jnl
Manuf. Serv. Oper. Manag.
Narendra Singh, Karthik Ramachandran, Ravi Subramanian
2022 Misc conf
ICISS
Narendra Singh, Somanath Tripathy, Bruhadeshwar Bezawada
2021 conf
SecITC
Somanath Tripathy, Narendra Singh, Divyanshu N. Singh
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Julian Arnold, Juan Carlos San Vicente Veliz, Debasish Koner, Narendra Singh, Raymond J. Bemish, Markus Meuwly
2021 J jnl
Int. J. Wirel. Mob. Comput.
Archana Verma, Pushpa Singh, Narendra Singh
2020 J jnl
Int. J. Appl. Evol. Comput.
Pushpa Singh, Narendra Singh
2020 conf
PKDD/ECML Workshops
Narendra Singh, Harsh Kasyap, Somanath Tripathy
2020 J jnl
Multim. Tools Appl.
Mahesh K. Singh, Ashutosh Kumar Singh, Narendra Singh
2020 J jnl
Multim. Tools Appl.
Jitendra Raghuwanshi, Amit Mishra, Narendra Singh
2019 J jnl
Multim. Tools Appl.
Mahesh K. Singh, Ashutosh Kumar Singh, Narendra Singh
2019 J jnl
IEICE Trans. Electron.
Tomoya Sato, Narendra Singh, Roland Hönes, Chihiro Urata, Yasutaka Matsuo, Atsushi Hozumi
2018 J jnl
Int. J. Open Source Softw. Process.
Pushpa Singh, Narendra Singh
2018 conf
RAIT
Surya Bhan Yadav, Dheeraj Kumar, Sumit Kumar Chaudhary, Narendra Singh, Sunil Kumar
2018 conf
RAIT
Narendra Singh, Sumi Kala, Dheeraj Kumar, R. S. Chatterjee, Durga Charan Panigrahi, Sumit Kumar Chaudhary
2017 J jnl
Multim. Tools Appl.
Deepak Sharma, Rajiv Saxena, Narendra Singh
2017 J jnl
Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinformation
R. S. Chatterjee, Narendra Singh, Shailaja Thapa, Dravneeta Sharma, Dheeraj Kumar
1997 J jnl
Wirel. Networks
Henry Lai, Monserrat Carino, Narendra Singh
redb/extractors/elf_extractors/elf_imports.py
← Index redb/extractors/elf_extractors/elf_imports.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 ELFImport


class ELFImportExtractor(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_imports = None
        self.elastic_index = self.index_prefix + "-elf_imports"
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

    def _get_import_libraries(self, elf) -> List[str]:
        """Extract imported libraries from dynamic section."""
        libraries = []

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

            # Extract DT_NEEDED entries (required libraries)
            for tag in dynamic_section.iter_tags():
                if tag.entry.d_tag == 'DT_NEEDED':
                    libraries.append(tag.needed)

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting import libraries: {e}")

        return libraries

    def _get_imported_functions_from_symbols(self, elf) -> Set[str]:
        """Extract imported functions from dynamic symbol table."""
        imported_functions = set()

        try:
            # Get the dynamic symbol table
            dynsym_section = elf.get_section_by_name('.dynsym')
            if not dynsym_section or not hasattr(dynsym_section, 'iter_symbols'):
                return imported_functions

            # Look for undefined symbols (imports)
            for symbol in dynsym_section.iter_symbols():
                # Check if symbol is undefined (imported)
                if (symbol.entry.get('st_shndx', 0) == 'SHN_UNDEF' and
                    symbol.name and
                    symbol.entry.get('st_info', {}).get('bind') in ['STB_GLOBAL', 'STB_WEAK']):
                    imported_functions.add(symbol.name)

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

        return imported_functions

    def _get_imported_functions_from_relocations(self, elf) -> Set[str]:
        """Extract imported functions from relocation sections."""
        imported_functions = set()

        try:
            # Look through relocation sections
            for section in elf.iter_sections():
                if hasattr(section, 'iter_relocations'):
                    try:
                        for relocation in section.iter_relocations():
                            # Get symbol associated with relocation
                            if hasattr(relocation, 'symbol') and relocation.symbol:
                                symbol_name = relocation.symbol.name
                                if symbol_name:
                                    imported_functions.add(symbol_name)
                    except Exception as e:
                        self.log.debug(f"Could not process relocations in section {section.name}: {e}")

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

        return imported_functions

    def _get_plt_functions(self, elf) -> Set[str]:
        """Extract functions from PLT (Procedure Linkage Table) sections."""
        plt_functions = set()

        try:
            # Look for PLT-related sections
            plt_sections = ['.plt', '.plt.got', '.plt.sec']

            for section_name in plt_sections:
                section = elf.get_section_by_name(section_name)
                if section:
                    # PLT functions are typically associated with relocations
                    # We'll get them from the relocation analysis
                    pass

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

        return plt_functions

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

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

            def extract_data(elf):
                # Extract import libraries
                import_libraries = self._get_import_libraries(elf)

                # Extract imported functions from multiple sources
                imported_functions = set()

                # From dynamic symbols
                symbol_imports = self._get_imported_functions_from_symbols(elf)
                imported_functions.update(symbol_imports)

                # From relocations
                relocation_imports = self._get_imported_functions_from_relocations(elf)
                imported_functions.update(relocation_imports)

                # From PLT
                plt_imports = self._get_plt_functions(elf)
                imported_functions.update(plt_imports)

                # Convert to sorted lists for consistent output
                import_libraries_list = sorted(list(set(import_libraries)))
                import_functions_list = sorted(list(imported_functions))

                # Return ELFImport dataclass
                return ELFImport(
                    elf_imports_total=len(import_functions_list),
                    elf_import_libraries=import_libraries_list,
                    elf_import_functions=import_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_imports = result
            return self.elf_imports

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting ELF imports {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_imports
        elif exporter_type == "ClickHouseExporter":
            try:
                if not self.elf_imports:
                    return None

                # Prepare data array
                data = [[
                    self.sha256,
                    self.md5,
                    self.sha1,
                    self.elf_imports.elf_imports_total,
                    self.elf_imports.elf_import_libraries,
                    self.elf_imports.elf_import_functions,
                    datetime.now(timezone.utc)
                ]]

                column_names = [
                    'sha256', 'md5', 'sha1',
                    'elf_imports_total',
                    'elf_import_libraries',
                    'elf_import_functions',
                    'analysis_date'
                ]

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

                if not data:
                    return None

                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_imports"