Natalija Vlajic

66 papers A* 2A 1B 7C 3Misc 3Journal 17Unranked 33
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
Secur. Priv.
Gabriele Cianfarani, Natalija Vlajic, Robert Noce
2025 conf
ISDFS
Natalija Vlajic, Melina Hajimi, Milos Stojadinovic
2025 B conf
COMPSAC
Natalija Vlajic, Melina Najimi, Milos Stojadinovic
2025 conf
ICC
Gabriele Cianfarani, Natalija Vlajic, Robert Noce
2024 Misc conf
CSR
Natalija Vlajic, Gabriele Cianfarani, Robert Noce
2024 Misc conf
CSR
Daniel Brown, Natalija Vlajic
2024 Misc conf
CSR
Shadi Sadeghpour, Natalija Vlajic
2024 conf
RICSS@CCS
Natalija Vlajic, Gabriele Cianfarani
2023 conf
CCNC
Shadi Sadeghpour, Natalija Vlajic
2023 J jnl
IEEE Commun. Mag.
Natalija Vlajic, Jelena Mirkovic, Robert Noce
2023 conf
ICCPS
Natalija Vlajic, Stefan Petrovic, Gabriele Cianfarani
2023 A conf
IMC
Natalija Vlajic, Daniel Brown
2023 conf
MTD@CCS
Shadi Sadeghpour, Natalija Vlajic
2023 J jnl
J. Cybersecur. Priv.
Shadi Sadeghpour, Natalija Vlajic
2022 conf
ADIoT
Pooria Madani, Natalija Vlajic
2022 A* conf
CCS
Shadi Sadeghpour, Natalija Vlajic
2022 J jnl
DTRAP
Pooria Madani, Natalija Vlajic, Ivo Maljevic
2022 conf
CNS
Daniel Brown, Gabriele Cianfarani, Natalija Vlajic
2022 conf
CNS
Jay Chung, Natalija Vlajic
2021 J jnl
J. Cybersecur. Priv.
Shadi Sadeghpour, Natalija Vlajic
2021 J jnl
Comput.
Shadi Sadeghpour, Natalija Vlajic
2021 conf
CSCI
Josh Sahota, Natalija Vlajic
2021 J jnl
J. Cybersecur. Priv.
Pooria Madani, Natalija Vlajic
2021 conf
CCNC
Shadi Sadeghpour, Natalija Vlajic, Pooria Madani, Dusan Stevanovic
2020 conf
CPSIOTSEC@CCS
Pooria Madani, Natalija Vlajic, Shadi Sadeghpour
2019 J jnl
Comput.
Natalija Vlajic, Mashruf Chowdhury, Marin Litoiu
2019 B conf
ARES
Pooria Madani, Natalija Vlajic
2018 A* conf
CCS
Zachary Matthews, Natalija Vlajic
2018 conf
ICII
Natalija Vlajic, Daiwei Zhou, Jonathan Tung
2018 J jnl
Computer
Natalija Vlajic, Daiwei Zhou
2018 conf
CBI (2)
Natalija Vlajic, Shun-Nam Wilson Chow, Xavon Charles
2018 conf
MPS@CCS
Natalija Vlajic, Marmara El Masri, Gianluigi M. Riva, Marguerite Barry, Derek Doran
2018 conf
HotSoS
Pooria Madani, Natalija Vlajic
2017 conf
CNS
Marmara El Masri, Natalija Vlajic
2017 B conf
ARES
Natalija Vlajic, Xue Ying Shi, Hamzeh Roumani, Pooria Madani
2017 J jnl
J. Cyber Secur. Mobil.
Xue Ying Shi, Natalija Vlajic, Hamzeh Roumani, Pooria Madani
2016 conf
CNS
Pooria Madani, Natalija Vlajic
2015 conf
CSCloud
Yang Yang, Natalija Vlajic, Uyen Trang Nguyen
2015 conf
CNS
Y. Yang, Natalija Vlajic, Uyen Trang Nguyen
2014 conf
CNS
Dusan Stevanovic, Natalija Vlajic
2014 C conf
ICMLA
Dusan Stevanovic, Natalija Vlajic
2014 conf
ICITST
Natalija Vlajic, Armin Slopek
2014 conf
GLOBECOM Workshops
Natalija Vlajic, Armin Slopek
2013 J jnl
Appl. Soft Comput.
Dusan Stevanovic, Natalija Vlajic, Aijun An
2012 conf
WorldCIS
Maria Angel Marquez Andrade, Natalija Vlajic
2012 J jnl
Expert Syst. Appl.
Dusan Stevanovic, Aijun An, Natalija Vlajic
2012 conf
WorldCIS
Dimitry Drinfeld, Natalija Vlajic
2012 conf
ANT/MobiWIS
Natalija Vlajic, Maria Angel Marquez Andrade, Uyen Trang Nguyen
2012 conf
WorldCIS
Alex Naumov, Natalija Vlajic, Hamzeh Roumani
2011 C conf
ISMIS
Dusan Stevanovic, Aijun An, Natalija Vlajic
2011 J jnl
Comput. Commun.
Natalija Vlajic, Dusan Stevanovic, George Spanogiannopoulos
2011 conf
ANT/MobiWIS
Dusan Stevanovic, Natalija Vlajic, Aijun An
2009 conf
ADHOCNETS
George Spanogiannopoulos, Natalija Vlajic, Dusan Stevanovic
2009 B conf
IWCMC
Natalija Vlajic, Dusan Stevanovic
2008 B conf
LCN
Dusan Stevanovic, Natalija Vlajic
2007 J jnl
Ad Hoc Sens. Wirel. Networks
Dawei Xia, Natalija Vlajic
2007 B conf
AINA
Dawei Xia, Natalija Vlajic
2006 conf
CCECE
Ting Xue, Natalija Vlajic
2006 conf
CCECE
Dawei Xia, Natalija Vlajic
2006 C conf
WOWMOM
Natalija Vlajic, David Xia
2004 J jnl
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw.
Natalija Vlajic, Charalambos D. Charalambous, Dimitrios Makrakis
2003 conf
ICC
Natalija Vlajic, Charalambos D. Charalambous, Dimitrios Makrakis
2001 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Neural Networks
Natalija Vlajic, Howard C. Card
2000 conf
IJCNN (1)
Natalija Vlajic, Thomas Kunz, Howard C. Card
1999 B conf
IJCNN
Natalija Vlajic, Howard C. Card
1998 J jnl
J. Netw. Comput. Appl.
Natalija Vlajic, Howard C. Card
redb/extractors/elf_extractors/elf_notes.py
← Index redb/extractors/elf_extractors/elf_notes.py python
import inspect
import binascii
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from typing import Any, List, Dict

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 ELFNote


class ELFNotesExtractor(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_notes = []
        self.elastic_index = self.index_prefix + "-elf_notes"
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

    def _get_note_type_string(self, note_type: int, note_name: str) -> str:
        """Convert note type number to human-readable string."""

        # GNU-specific note types
        if note_name == "GNU":
            gnu_types = {
                1: "NT_GNU_ABI_TAG",
                2: "NT_GNU_HWCAP",
                3: "NT_GNU_BUILD_ID",
                4: "NT_GNU_GOLD_VERSION",
                5: "NT_GNU_PROPERTY_TYPE_0"
            }
            return gnu_types.get(note_type, f"NT_GNU_UNKNOWN_{note_type}")

        # Generic note types
        generic_types = {
            1: "NT_PRSTATUS",
            2: "NT_FPREGSET",
            3: "NT_PRPSINFO",
            4: "NT_TASKSTRUCT",
            5: "NT_AUXV",
            6: "NT_PSTATUS",
            7: "NT_FPREGS",
            8: "NT_PSINFO",
            9: "NT_PRCRED",
            10: "NT_UTSNAME",
            11: "NT_LWPSTATUS",
            12: "NT_LWPSINFO",
            13: "NT_PRFPXREG"
        }

        return generic_types.get(note_type, f"NT_UNKNOWN_{note_type}")

    def _format_note_description(self, note_desc, note_type: int, note_name: str) -> str:
        """Format note description based on type for human readability."""
        try:
            if not note_desc:
                return ""

            # Handle build ID specifically (common case)
            if note_name == "GNU" and note_type == 3:  # NT_GNU_BUILD_ID
                if isinstance(note_desc, bytes):
                    return binascii.hexlify(note_desc).decode('ascii')
                return str(note_desc)

            # Handle ABI tag
            if note_name == "GNU" and note_type == 1:  # NT_GNU_ABI_TAG
                if isinstance(note_desc, bytes) and len(note_desc) >= 16:
                    # ABI tag contains OS, major, minor, subminor
                    import struct
                    try:
                        os_val, major, minor, subminor = struct.unpack('<IIII', note_desc[:16])
                        os_names = {0: "Linux", 1: "GNU", 2: "Solaris", 3: "FreeBSD"}
                        os_name = os_names.get(os_val, f"OS_{os_val}")
                        return f"{os_name} {major}.{minor}.{subminor}"
                    except:
                        pass

            # For binary data, convert to hex
            if isinstance(note_desc, bytes):
                # Limit size for very large descriptions
                if len(note_desc) > 256:
                    return binascii.hexlify(note_desc[:256]).decode('ascii') + "..."
                return binascii.hexlify(note_desc).decode('ascii')

            # For string data
            if isinstance(note_desc, str):
                return note_desc

            # Fallback
            return str(note_desc)

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error formatting note description: {e}")
            return str(note_desc) if note_desc else ""

    def _extract_note_data(self, note, section_name: str) -> ELFNote:
        """Extract data from a single note entry."""
        try:
            # Get note properties
            note_name = note.get('n_name', '').rstrip('\x00') if note.get('n_name') else ""
            note_type_raw = note.get('n_type', 0)
            note_desc_raw = note.get('n_desc', b'')

            # Handle note_type - pyelftools may return string or int
            if isinstance(note_type_raw, str):
                # pyelftools returned the type as a string like 'NT_GNU_BUILD_ID'
                note_type_str = note_type_raw
                # Map known string types to integers
                note_type_map = {
                    'NT_GNU_ABI_TAG': 1,
                    'NT_GNU_HWCAP': 2,
                    'NT_GNU_BUILD_ID': 3,
                    'NT_GNU_GOLD_VERSION': 4,
                    'NT_GNU_PROPERTY_TYPE_0': 5,
                    'NT_PRSTATUS': 1,
                    'NT_FPREGSET': 2,
                    'NT_PRPSINFO': 3,
                    'NT_TASKSTRUCT': 4,
                    'NT_AUXV': 5,
                    'NT_PSTATUS': 6,
                    'NT_FPREGS': 7,
                    'NT_PSINFO': 8,
                    'NT_PRCRED': 9,
                    'NT_UTSNAME': 10,
                    'NT_LWPSTATUS': 11,
                    'NT_LWPSINFO': 12,
                    'NT_PRFPXREG': 13,
                }
                note_type = note_type_map.get(note_type_raw, 0)
            else:
                note_type = note_type_raw
                # Get human-readable type string
                note_type_str = self._get_note_type_string(note_type, note_name)

            # Format description
            note_desc = self._format_note_description(note_desc_raw, note_type, note_name)

            return ELFNote(
                note_name=note_name,
                note_type=note_type,
                note_type_str=note_type_str,
                note_desc=note_desc,
                note_section=section_name
            )

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting note data: {e}")
            return None

    def _extract_notes_from_sections(self, elf) -> List[Dict]:
        """Extract notes from note sections."""
        notes = []

        try:
            # Look for note sections
            for section in elf.iter_sections():
                if (section.name and
                    section.name.startswith('.note') and
                    hasattr(section, 'iter_notes')):

                    section_name = section.name
                    try:
                        for note in section.iter_notes():
                            note_data = self._extract_note_data(note, section_name)
                            if note_data:
                                notes.append(note_data)
                    except Exception as e:
                        self.log.debug(f"Could not process notes in section {section_name}: {e}")

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting notes from sections: {e}")

        return notes

    def _extract_notes_from_segments(self, elf) -> List[Dict]:
        """Extract notes from PT_NOTE segments."""
        notes = []

        try:
            # Look for PT_NOTE segments
            for segment in elf.iter_segments():
                if segment.header.get('p_type') == 'PT_NOTE':
                    segment_name = f"PT_NOTE_segment_{segment.header.get('p_offset', 0)}"

                    try:
                        if hasattr(segment, 'iter_notes'):
                            for note in segment.iter_notes():
                                note_data = self._extract_note_data(note, segment_name)
                                if note_data:
                                    notes.append(note_data)
                    except Exception as e:
                        self.log.debug(f"Could not process notes in segment: {e}")

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting notes from segments: {e}")

        return notes

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

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

            def extract_data(elf):
                all_notes = []

                # Extract notes from note sections
                section_notes = self._extract_notes_from_sections(elf)
                all_notes.extend(section_notes)

                # Extract notes from PT_NOTE segments
                segment_notes = self._extract_notes_from_segments(elf)
                all_notes.extend(segment_notes)

                # Remove duplicates (same note might appear in section and segment)
                unique_notes = []
                seen_notes = set()
                for note in all_notes:
                    note_key = (note.note_name, note.note_type, note.note_desc)
                    if note_key not in seen_notes:
                        seen_notes.add(note_key)
                        unique_notes.append(note)

                return unique_notes

            if not self._is_elf_file():
                return None

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

            self.elf_notes = result
            return self.elf_notes

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting ELF notes {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_notes
        elif exporter_type == "ClickHouseExporter":
            try:
                # Return valid empty structure if no notes found
                # None is reserved for actual errors

                # Prepare data arrays for all notes
                data = []
                current_time = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
                for note in self.elf_notes:
                    row = [
                        self.sha256,
                        self.md5,
                        self.sha1,
                        note.note_name,
                        note.note_type,
                        note.note_type_str,
                        note.note_desc,
                        note.note_section,
                        current_time
                    ]
                    data.append(row)

                column_names = [
                    'sha256', 'md5', 'sha1',
                    'note_name', 'note_type', 'note_type_str',
                    'note_desc', 'note_section',
                    'analysis_date'
                ]

                if not data:
                    return None

                column_type_names = [
                    'FixedString(64)', 'FixedString(32)', 'FixedString(40)',
                    'LowCardinality(String)', 'UInt32', 'LowCardinality(String)',
                    'String CODEC(ZSTD(3))', '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_notes"