Nawal A. El-Fishawy

54 papers B 2C 2Journal 44Unranked 6
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
Int. J. Mach. Learn. Cybern.
Mohamed A. El-Rashidy, Amira E. Enab, Salah S. Elagooz, Nawal A. El-Fishawy, Marwa Radad
2025 J jnl
Intell. Syst. Appl.
Hanaa Torkey, Heba El-Behery, Abdel-Fattah Attia, Nawal A. El-Fishawy
2025 J jnl
Neural Comput. Appl.
Hanaa Torkey, Heba El-Behery, Abdel-Fattah Attia, Nawal A. El-Fishawy
2025 J jnl
Int. J. Comput. Intell. Syst.
Marwa Radad, Amira E. Enab, Salah S. Elagooz, Nawal A. El-Fishawy, Mohamed A. El-Rashidy
2024 J jnl
IEEE Access
Nesma Abd El-Mawla, Mohamed A. Berbar, Nawal A. El-Fishawy, Mohamed A. El-Rashidy
2024 J jnl
Neural Comput. Appl.
Nesma Abd El-Mawla, Mohamed A. Berbar, Nawal A. El-Fishawy, Mohamed A. El-Rashidy
2024 J jnl
Multim. Tools Appl.
Mohamed A. El-Rashidy, Ramy G. Mohamed, Nawal A. El-Fishawy, Marwa A. Shouman
2024 J jnl
Complex Intell. Syst.
Hussein A. Ibrahim, Marwa A. Shouman, Nawal A. El-Fishawy, Ayman Ahmed
2024 J jnl
J. Supercomput.
Samia Souror, Mohammed Badawy, Nawal A. El-Fishawy
2023 J jnl
Multim. Tools Appl.
Randa Kamal, Ezz El-Din Hemdan, Nawal A. El-Fishawy
2023 J jnl
Computing
Maha Zeedan, Gamal Attiya, Nawal A. El-Fishawy
2023 J jnl
Neural Comput. Appl.
Mohamed A. El-Rashidy, Ahmed Farouk, Nawal A. El-Fishawy, Heba K. Aslan, Nabila A. Khodeir
2022 J jnl
Parallel Process. Lett.
Maha Zeedan, Gamal Attiya, Nawal A. El-Fishawy
2022 J jnl
Sensors
Ahmed Samy AbdElAziz Moursi, Nawal A. El-Fishawy, Soufiene Djahel, Marwa A. Shouman
2022 J jnl
Concurr. Comput. Pract. Exp.
Randa Kamal, Ezz El-Din Hemdan, Nawal A. El-Fishawy
2022 J jnl
J. King Saud Univ. Comput. Inf. Sci.
Ahmed Arafa, Nawal A. El-Fishawy, Mohamed Alfateh Badawy, Marwa Radad
2022 J jnl
Neural Comput. Appl.
Mohamed A. El-Rashidy, Ramy G. Mohamed, Nawal A. El-Fishawy, Marwa A. Shouman
2021 J jnl
PeerJ Comput. Sci.
Hanaa Torkey, Mostafa Atlam, Nawal A. El-Fishawy, Hanaa Salem
2021 J jnl
Multim. Tools Appl.
Randa Kamal, Ezz El-Din Hemdan, Nawal A. El-Fishawy
2021 J jnl
Multim. Tools Appl.
Ahmed Shalaby, Ramadan Gad, Ezz El-Din Hemdan, Nawal A. El-Fishawy
2021 J jnl
Secur. Priv.
Gamal Eldin I. Selim, Ezz El-Din Hemdan, Ahmed M. Shehata, Nawal A. El-Fishawy
2021 J jnl
PeerJ Comput. Sci.
Ahmed Shalaby, Ramadan Gad, Ezz El-Din Hemdan, Nawal A. El-Fishawy
2021 J jnl
Multim. Tools Appl.
Gamal Eldin I. Selim, Ezz El-Din Hemdan, Ahmed M. Shehata, Nawal A. El-Fishawy
2021 J jnl
Wirel. Networks
Ehab Khater, Nawal A. El-Fishawy, Maha Tolba, Dina M. Ibrahim, Mohammed Badawy
2021 J jnl
Pattern Anal. Appl.
Mostafa Atlam, Hanaa Torkey, Nawal A. El-Fishawy, Hanaa Salem
2021 J jnl
Comput. Biol. Chem.
Heba El-Behery, Abdel-Fattah Attia, Nawal A. El-Fishawy, Hanaa Torkey
2020 J jnl
Wirel. Pers. Commun.
Rania A. Ghazy, El-Sayed M. El-Rabaie, Moawad I. Dessouky, Nawal A. El-Fishawy, Fathi E. Abd El-Samie
2020 J jnl
Comput. Intell. Neurosci.
Ahmed Ghozia, Gamal Attiya, Emad Adly, Nawal A. El-Fishawy
2018 J jnl
Wirel. Pers. Commun.
Rania A. Ghazy, El-Sayed M. El-Rabaie, Moawad I. Dessouky, Nawal A. El-Fishawy, Fathi E. Abd El-Samie
2018 B conf
SMC
Khaled Saleh, Ramy A. Zeineldin, Mohammed Hossny, Saeid Nahavandi, Nawal A. El-Fishawy
2018 J jnl
Future Gener. Comput. Syst.
Ramadan Gad, Muhammad Talha, Ahmed A. Abd El-Latif, Mohamed Zorkany, Ayman El-Sayed, Nawal A. El-Fishawy, Ghulam Muhammad
2018 J jnl
Int. J. Wirel. Networks Broadband Technol.
Amany M. Sarhan, Nawal A. El-Fishawy, Mahmoud M. Shawara
2017 J jnl
Appl. Soft Comput.
Hanaa Salem, Gamal Attiya, Nawal A. El-Fishawy
2017 J jnl
Pattern Anal. Appl.
Hanaa Salem, Gamal Attiya, Nawal A. El-Fishawy
2017 B conf
SMC
Khaled Saleh, Ramy A. Zeineldin, Mohammed Hossny, Saeid Nahavandi, Nawal A. El-Fishawy
2016 J jnl
EURASIP J. Inf. Secur.
Sheren A. El-Booz, Gamal Attiya, Nawal A. El-Fishawy
2016 J jnl
Int. Arab J. Inf. Technol.
Osama M. Abu Zaid, Nawal A. El-Fishawy, Elsayed Nigm
2015 conf
ICCTA
A. S. Hashwa, Nawal A. El-Fishawy, Sherin M. Youssef
2015 conf
ICCTA
Ramadan Gad, M. Zorkany, Nawal A. El-Fishawy, Ayman El-Sayed
2014 J jnl
Int. J. Commun. Syst.
Waleed Saad, Nawal A. El-Fishawy, S. El-Rabaie, Mona Shokair
2014 J jnl
Inf. Process. Manag.
Hanaa A. Abdallah, Rania A. Ghazy, Hany Kasban, Osama S. Faragallah, Abdalhameed A. Shaalan, Mohiy M. Hadhoud, Moawad I. Dessouky, Nawal A. El-Fishawy, Saleh A. Alshebeili, Fathi E. Abd El-Samie
2014 conf
ITNG
Mohamed Alfateh Badawy, Nawal A. El-Fishawy, Osama A. Elshakankiry
2013 J jnl
Wirel. Networks
Mohsen A. M. El-Bendary, Atef E. Abou-El-azm, Nawal A. El-Fishawy, Farid Shawki, Mostafa Refai El-Tokhy, Fathi E. Abd El-Samie, Hassan B. Kazemian
2013 J jnl
IET Commun.
Waleed Saad, Nawal A. El-Fishawy, S. El-Rabaie, Mona Shokair
2013 J jnl
Digit. Signal Process.
Seif Shebl, Naglaa F. Soliman, Nawal A. El-Fishawy, Atef E. Abou-El-azm, Saleh A. Alshebeili, Fathi E. Abd El-Samie
2013 conf
SecNet
Mohamed Alfateh Badawy, Nawal A. El-Fishawy, Osama A. Elshakankiry
2012 J jnl
EURASIP J. Audio Speech Music. Process.
Mohsen A. M. El-Bendary, Atef E. Abou-El-azm, Nawal A. El-Fishawy, Farid Shawki, Fathi E. Abd El-Samie, Mostafa Refai El-Tokhy, Hassan B. Kazemian
2011 J jnl
Digit. Signal Process.
Waleed Al-Nuaimy, Mohsen A. M. El-Bendary, Amira Shafik, Farid Shawki, Atef E. Abou-El-azm, Nawal A. El-Fishawy, Said M. Elhalafawy, Salaheldin M. Diab, Bassiuny M. Sallam, Fathi E. Abd El-Samie, Hassan B. Kazemian
2011 J jnl
KSII Trans. Internet Inf. Syst.
Mohsen A. M. El-Bendary, Atef E. Abou-El-azm, Nawal A. El-Fishawy, Farid Shawki, Mostafa Refai El-Tokhy, Fathi E. Abd El-Samie, Hassan B. Kazemian
2010 C conf
GPC
Waleed Saad, Nawal A. El-Fishawy, S. El-Rabaie, Mona Shokair
2008 conf
COMSWARE
Nawal A. El-Fishawy, Mona Shokair, Waleed Saad
2007 J jnl
Int. J. Netw. Secur.
Nawal A. El-Fishawy, Osama M. Abu Zaid
2003 C conf
IPCCC
Nawal A. El-Fishawy, Mostafa A. Nofal, Albert M. Tadros
2002 conf
VTC Spring
Nawal A. El-Fishawy, Mostafa A. Nofal, Albert M. Tadros
redb/extractors/elf_extractors/elf_sections.py
← Index redb/extractors/elf_extractors/elf_sections.py python
import inspect
import hashlib
import math
from collections import Counter
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 ELFSection


class ELFSectionExtractor(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_sections = []
        self.elastic_index = self.index_prefix + "-elf_sections"
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

    def _is_empty_result(self, extracted_data) -> bool:
        """
        Override: Empty sections is an ERROR, not a valid empty case.
        A valid ELF file must have sections (at minimum a null section).
        """
        # Always return False - empty sections should be treated as an error
        return False

    def _calculate_entropy(self, data: bytes) -> float:
        """Calculate Shannon entropy of data."""
        if not data:
            return 0.0

        try:
            # Count frequency of each byte
            byte_counts = Counter(data)
            data_len = len(data)

            # Calculate entropy
            entropy = 0.0
            for count in byte_counts.values():
                if count > 0:
                    frequency = count / data_len
                    entropy -= frequency * math.log2(frequency)

            return entropy
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error calculating entropy: {e}")
            return 0.0

    def _map_section_type(self, sh_type_str: str) -> int:
        """Map section type string to enum value."""
        type_map = {
            'SHT_NULL': 0,
            'SHT_PROGBITS': 1,
            'SHT_SYMTAB': 2,
            'SHT_STRTAB': 3,
            'SHT_RELA': 4,
            'SHT_HASH': 5,
            'SHT_DYNAMIC': 6,
            'SHT_NOTE': 7,
            'SHT_NOBITS': 8,
            'SHT_REL': 9,
            'SHT_DYNSYM': 11
        }
        return type_map.get(sh_type_str, 0)

    def _decode_section_flags(self, flags: int) -> List[str]:
        """Decode section flags to human-readable strings."""
        flag_strings = []

        # Common ELF section flags
        if flags & 0x1:  # SHF_WRITE
            flag_strings.append('WRITE')
        if flags & 0x2:  # SHF_ALLOC
            flag_strings.append('ALLOC')
        if flags & 0x4:  # SHF_EXECINSTR
            flag_strings.append('EXECINSTR')
        if flags & 0x10:  # SHF_MERGE
            flag_strings.append('MERGE')
        if flags & 0x20:  # SHF_STRINGS
            flag_strings.append('STRINGS')
        if flags & 0x40:  # SHF_INFO_LINK
            flag_strings.append('INFO_LINK')
        if flags & 0x80:  # SHF_LINK_ORDER
            flag_strings.append('LINK_ORDER')
        if flags & 0x100:  # SHF_OS_NONCONFORMING
            flag_strings.append('OS_NONCONFORMING')
        if flags & 0x200:  # SHF_GROUP
            flag_strings.append('GROUP')
        if flags & 0x400:  # SHF_TLS
            flag_strings.append('TLS')

        return flag_strings if flag_strings else ['NONE']

    def _extract_section_data(self, section) -> Dict:
        """Extract data from a single section."""
        try:
            header = section.header

            # Get section name (handle empty names)
            section_name = section.name if section.name else f"<unnamed_{section.header.get('sh_name', 0)}>"

            # Get section type and map to enum
            sh_type_str = header.get('sh_type', 'SHT_NULL')
            section_type_enum = self._map_section_type(sh_type_str)
            section_type_str = sh_type_str.replace('SHT_', '') if sh_type_str.startswith('SHT_') else sh_type_str

            # Get section properties
            section_flags = header.get('sh_flags', 0)
            section_flags_str = self._decode_section_flags(section_flags)
            section_addr = header.get('sh_addr', 0)
            section_offset = header.get('sh_offset', 0)
            section_size = header.get('sh_size', 0)
            section_link = header.get('sh_link', 0)
            section_info = header.get('sh_info', 0)
            section_addralign = header.get('sh_addralign', 0)
            section_entsize = header.get('sh_entsize', 0)

            # Calculate entropy and hashes for section data
            section_entropy = 0.0
            section_sha256 = ""
            section_md5 = ""

            try:
                if section_size > 0 and section_type_str != 'NOBITS':
                    section_data = section.data()
                    if section_data:
                        # Calculate entropy
                        section_entropy = self._calculate_entropy(section_data)

                        # Calculate hashes
                        section_sha256 = hashlib.sha256(section_data).hexdigest()
                        section_md5 = hashlib.md5(section_data).hexdigest()
            except Exception as e:
                self.log.warning(f"Could not read section '{section_name}' data: {e}")
                section_entropy = 0.0
                section_sha256 = ""
                section_md5 = ""

            return ELFSection(
                section_name=section_name,
                section_type=section_type_enum,
                section_type_str=section_type_str,
                section_flags=section_flags,
                section_flags_str=section_flags_str,
                section_addr=section_addr,
                section_offset=section_offset,
                section_size=section_size,
                section_link=section_link,
                section_info=section_info,
                section_addralign=section_addralign,
                section_entsize=section_entsize,
                section_entropy=section_entropy,
                section_sha256=section_sha256,
                section_md5=section_md5
            )

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

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

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

            def extract_data(elf):
                sections_data = []

                # Iterate through all sections with per-section error handling
                for section_index, section in enumerate(elf.iter_sections()):
                    try:
                        section_data = self._extract_section_data(section)
                        if section_data:
                            sections_data.append(section_data)
                        else:
                            self.log.warning(f"Failed to extract data for section {section_index}")
                    except Exception as e:
                        self.log.warning(f"Error processing section {section_index}: {e}")
                        # Continue processing other sections

                return sections_data

            if not self._is_elf_file():
                return None

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

            self.elf_sections = result
            return self.elf_sections

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

                # Prepare data arrays for all sections
                data = []
                current_time = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
                for section in self.elf_sections:
                    row = [
                        self.sha256,
                        self.md5,
                        self.sha1,
                        section.section_name,
                        section.section_type,
                        section.section_type_str,
                        section.section_flags,
                        section.section_flags_str,
                        section.section_addr,
                        section.section_offset,
                        section.section_size,
                        section.section_link,
                        section.section_info,
                        section.section_addralign,
                        section.section_entsize,
                        section.section_entropy,
                        section.section_sha256,
                        section.section_md5,
                        current_time
                    ]
                    data.append(row)

                column_names = [
                    'sha256', 'md5', 'sha1',
                    'section_name', 'section_type', 'section_type_str',
                    'section_flags', 'section_flags_str',
                    'section_addr', 'section_offset', 'section_size',
                    'section_link', 'section_info', 'section_addralign', 'section_entsize',
                    'section_entropy', 'section_sha256', 'section_md5',
                    'analysis_date'
                ]

                column_type_names = [
                    'FixedString(64)', 'FixedString(32)', 'FixedString(40)',
                    'LowCardinality(String)',
                    "Enum8('NULL'=0, 'PROGBITS'=1, 'SYMTAB'=2, 'STRTAB'=3, 'RELA'=4, 'HASH'=5, 'DYNAMIC'=6, 'NOTE'=7, 'NOBITS'=8, 'REL'=9, 'DYNSYM'=11)",
                    'LowCardinality(String)',
                    'UInt64',
                    'Array(LowCardinality(String))',
                    'UInt64', 'UInt64', 'UInt64',
                    'UInt32', 'UInt32', 'UInt64', 'UInt64',
                    'Float64',
                    'FixedString(64)', 'FixedString(32)',
                    '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_sections"