Naveed Islam

35 papers C 1Journal 27Unranked 7
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
Int. J. Commun. Syst.
Khalid Haseeb, Naveed Islam, Imran Ahmed, Mohammad Mehedi Hassan, Gwanggil Jeon
2023 J jnl
Clust. Comput.
Naveed Islam, Khalid Haseeb, Amjad Rehman, Teg Alam, Gwanggil Jeon
2023 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Comput. Soc. Syst.
Ali Daud, Naveed Islam, Xin Li, Imran Razzak, Malik Khizar Hayat
2023 J jnl
IEEE Access
Muhammad Shabir, Zahoor Jan, Naveed Islam, Inayat Khan, Gauhar Ali, Mohammed Ahmed El-Affendi
2023 J jnl
J. Circuits Syst. Comput.
Muhammad Shabir, Naveed Islam, Zahoor Jan, Inayat Khan
2022 J jnl
Neural Comput. Appl.
Sana Ullah Khan, Naveed Islam, Zahoor Jan, Khalid Haseeb, Syed Inayat Ali Shah, Muhammad Hanif
2021 J jnl
IEEE Access
Muhammad Shabir, Naveed Islam, Zahoor Jan, Inayat Khan, Taj Rahman, Asim Zeb, Shafiq Ahmad, Abdelaty Edrees Abdelgawad, Mali Abdollahian
2020 J jnl
Multim. Tools Appl.
Irshad Khan, Naveed Islam, Hafeez Ur Rehman, Murad Khan
2020 J jnl
Future Gener. Comput. Syst.
Naveed Islam, Khalid Haseeb, Ahmad Almogren, Ikram Ud Din, Mohsen Guizani, Ayman Altameem
2020 J jnl
Sensors
Khalid Haseeb, Ikram Ud Din, Ahmad Almogren, Naveed Islam
2020 J jnl
IEEE Access
Umair Ali Khan, Miguel A. Martínez-del-Amor, Saleh M. Altowaijri, Adnan Ahmed, Atiq Ur Rahman, Najm Us Sama, Khalid Haseeb, Naveed Islam
2020 J jnl
IEEE Access
Khalid Haseeb, Ikram Ud Din, Ahmad Almogren, Naveed Islam, Ayman Altameem
2020 J jnl
Sensors
Khalid Haseeb, Ahmad Almogren, Ikram Ud Din, Naveed Islam, Ayman Altameem
2019 J jnl
Future Gener. Comput. Syst.
Naveed Islam, Yasir Faheem, Ikram Ud Din, Muhammad Talha, Mohsen Guizani, Mudassir Khalil
2019 J jnl
Clust. Comput.
Shaukat Ali, Azhar Rauf, Naveed Islam, Haleem Farman
2019 J jnl
Pattern Recognit. Lett.
Sana Ullah Khan, Naveed Islam, Zahoor Jan, Ikram Ud Din, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues
2019 J jnl
Future Gener. Comput. Syst.
Sana Ullah Khan, Naveed Islam, Zahoor Jan, Ikram Ud Din, Atif Khan, Yasir Faheem
2019 J jnl
IEEE Access
Hafeez Ur Rehman, Usman Habib, Umer Ijaz, Naveed Islam, Atta ur Rehman Khan, Raheel Nawaz
2019 J jnl
IEEE Access
Khalid Haseeb, Naveed Islam, Ahmad Almogren, Ikram Ud Din
2019 J jnl
IEEE Access
Fatima Tul Zuhra, Kamalrulnizam bin Abu Bak, Adnan Ahmed Arain, Khaled Mohamad Almustafa, Tanzila Saba, Khalid Haseeb, Naveed Islam
2019 conf
WorldCIST (2)
Zahoor Jan, Inayat Ullah, Faryal Tahir, Naveed Islam, Babar Shah
2019 J jnl
IEEE Access
Khalid Haseeb, Naveed Islam, Ahmad Almogren, Ikram Ud Din, Hisham N. Almajed, Nadra Guizani
2019 J jnl
Comput. Environ. Urban Syst.
Amir Badshah, Naveed Islam, Danish Shahzad, Bilal Jan, Haleem Farman, Murad Khan, Gwanggil Jeon, Awais Ahmad
2019 J jnl
IEEE Access
Ali Raza Bhangwar, Adnan Ahmed, Umair Ali Khan, Tanzila Saba, Khaled Mohamad Almustafa, Khalid Haseeb, Naveed Islam
2018 conf
HPCC/SmartCity/DSS
Sana Ullah Khan, Naveed Islam, Zahoor Jan, Hameed Ullah Shah, Aziz Ud Din
2018 J jnl
Future Internet
Shaukat Ali, Naveed Islam, Azhar Rauf, Ikram Ud Din, Mohsen Guizani, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues
2016 conf
BIOINFORMATICS
Hafeez Ur Rehman, Usman Zafar, Alfredo Benso, Naveed Islam
2016 J jnl
Signal Process. Image Commun.
Naveed Islam, Zafar Shahid, William Puech
2012 conf
Media Watermarking, Security, and Forensics
Naveed Islam, William Puech
2011 conf
Media Forensics and Security
Naveed Islam, William Puech, Robert Brouzet
2011 conf
EUVIP
Naveed Islam, William Puech
2011 J jnl
Int. J. Biomed. Imaging
Shadi AlZu'bi, Naveed Islam, Maysam F. Abbod
2010 conf
APCCAS
Shadi AlZu'bi, Naveed Islam, Maysam F. Abbod
2010 J jnl
EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process.
Khizar Hayat, William Puech, Naveed Islam, Gilles Gesquière
2009 C conf
IWDW
Naveed Islam, William Puech, Robert Brouzet
redb/extractors/malcontent.py
← Index redb/extractors/malcontent.py python
import inspect
import json
import subprocess
from typing import Any
from datetime import datetime, timezone

from redb.extractors.enum import Tag
from redb.models.dataclasses import Malcontent
from redb.extractors.extractor import Extractor
from dotenv import load_dotenv
import os

load_dotenv(override=True)


class MalcontentExtractor(Extractor):
    """
    Extractor for malcontent tool from chainguard-dev/malcontent.

    Malcontent discovers supply-chain compromises through context, differential
    analysis, and 14,000+ YARA rules. It analyzes binaries and code to detect
    malicious content and suspicious behavioral patterns.

    Binary can be extracted from Docker image:
        docker cp $(docker create cgr.dev/chainguard/malcontent:latest):/usr/bin/mal /usr/local/bin/mal

    Stores full JSON output for materialized view extraction.
    """

    # Cache version at class level to avoid repeated subprocess calls
    _cached_version = None

    def __init__(
        self,
        filepath,
        log,
        exporters=None,
        index_prefix=None,
        elastic_index=None,
        known_benign=False,
        known_malicious=False,
    ):
        super().__init__(
            filepath,
            log,
            exporters,
            index_prefix,
            elastic_index,
            known_benign,
            known_malicious
        )
        self.malcontent = None

    @classmethod
    def _get_malcontent_version(cls, log) -> str:
        """Get malcontent version, cached at class level."""
        if cls._cached_version is not None:
            return cls._cached_version

        malcontent_path = os.getenv("MALCONTENT_PATH", "/usr/local/bin/mal")
        try:
            result = subprocess.run(
                [malcontent_path, "--version"],
                capture_output=True,
                text=True,
                timeout=10
            )
            version_output = result.stdout.strip()
            if result.returncode == 0 and version_output:
                # Parse "malcontent version v1.21.5" -> "1.21.5"
                if version_output.startswith("malcontent version v"):
                    version_output = version_output[len("malcontent version v"):]
                elif version_output.startswith("malcontent version "):
                    version_output = version_output[len("malcontent version "):]
                cls._cached_version = version_output
            else:
                cls._cached_version = "unknown"
        except Exception as e:
            log.warning(f"Could not get malcontent version: {e}")
            cls._cached_version = "unknown"

        return cls._cached_version

    def _extract_malcontent(self):
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)
        TIMEOUT = int(os.getenv("MALCONTENT_TIMEOUT", "300"))
        malcontent_path = os.getenv("MALCONTENT_PATH", "/usr/local/bin/mal")

        malcontent_command = [malcontent_path, "analyze", "--format=json", self.filepath]

        import signal

        try:
            process = subprocess.Popen(
                malcontent_command,
                stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
                text=True,
                preexec_fn=os.setsid
            )

            try:
                stdout, stderr = process.communicate(timeout=TIMEOUT)
                if process.returncode != 0:
                    self.log.error(f"Error running malcontent, return code: {process.returncode}, stderr: {stderr}")
                    return {}
            except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
                self.log.warning(f"The malcontent command timed out after {TIMEOUT} seconds, terminating process group")
                try:
                    os.killpg(process.pid, signal.SIGTERM)
                    try:
                        process.wait(timeout=3)
                    except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
                        self.log.warning("Process didn't terminate with SIGTERM, sending SIGKILL")
                        os.killpg(process.pid, signal.SIGKILL)
                    process.wait()
                except (ProcessLookupError, OSError) as e:
                    self.log.warning(f"Error while killing process: {e}")
                return {}

            try:
                malcontent_output = json.loads(stdout)
            except json.JSONDecodeError as e:
                self.log.error(f"Error parsing malcontent output: {e}")
                return {}

            # Unwrap the Files/<path> structure to get the inner content
            # Structure is: {"Files": {"/path/to/file": {<actual content>}}}
            files_dict = malcontent_output.get("Files", {})
            if not files_dict:
                self.log.warning("Malcontent output has no 'Files' key")
                return {}

            # Get the first (and only) file's content
            file_content = next(iter(files_dict.values()), {})
            if not file_content:
                self.log.warning("Malcontent output has empty file content")
                return {}

            # Extract risk score and level from the unwrapped content
            risk_score = file_content.get("RiskScore", 0)
            risk_level = file_content.get("RiskLevel", "")

            version = self._get_malcontent_version(self.log)

            self.malcontent = Malcontent(
                malcontent_dump=json.dumps(file_content),
                version=version,
                risk_score=risk_score,
                risk_level=risk_level
            )
            self.log.debug(f"Malcontent analysis complete, version={version}, risk={risk_level}({risk_score})")

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Unexpected error in malcontent extraction: {str(e)}")
            if 'process' in locals() and process.poll() is None:
                try:
                    os.killpg(process.pid, signal.SIGKILL)
                    process.wait()
                except:
                    pass
            return {}

    def prepare_export_data(self, exporter_type: str) -> Any:
        if exporter_type == "ClickHouseExporter":
            current_time = datetime.now(timezone.utc)

            data = [[
                self.sha256,
                current_time,
                self.malcontent.version,
                self.malcontent.risk_score,
                self.malcontent.risk_level,
                self.malcontent.malcontent_dump
            ]]

            column_names = [
                'sha256', 'analysis_date',
                'malcontent_version', 'malcontent_risk_score', 'malcontent_risk_level',
                'malcontent_json'
            ]

            column_type_names = [
                'FixedString(64)',
                'DateTime64(3, \'UTC\')',
                'LowCardinality(String)', 'UInt8', 'LowCardinality(String)',
                'JSON'
            ]

            return (data, column_names, column_type_names)

    def get_clickhouse_table(self) -> str:
        return "redb_malcontent"

    def extract(self):
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)
        try:
            self._extract_malcontent()
            return self.malcontent
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting malcontent: {e}")
            return None

    def tag(self):
        return Tag.MALCONTENT.value