Neel Patel

51 papers A* 12A 1B 3C 1Journal 26Unranked 8
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Rudrajit Das, Neel Patel, Meisam Razaviyayn, Vahab Mirrokni
2025 conf
ASPLOS (1)
Derrick Quinn, Mohammad Nouri, Neel Patel, John Salihu, Alireza Salemi, Sukhan Lee, Hamed Zamani, Mohammad Alian
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Neel Patel, Alexander Wong, Ashkan Ebadi
2025 J jnl
IEEE Micro
Derrick Quinn, Neel Patel, Mohammad Alian
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Kshipra Bhawalkar, Jeff Dean, Christopher Liaw, Aranyak Mehta, Neel Patel
2025 A* conf
EC
Kshipra Bhawalkar, Jeff Dean, Christopher Liaw, Aranyak Mehta, Neel Patel
2025 A* conf
ICML
Gramoz Goranci, Peter Kiss, Neel Patel, Martin P. Seybold, Eva Szilagyi, Da Wei Zheng
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Gramoz Goranci, Peter Kiss, Neel Patel, Martin P. Seybold, Eva Szilagyi, Da Wei Zheng
2025 J jnl
Int. J. Comput. Vis. Robotics
Om Patel, Vishvas Patel, Krinal Khamar, Neel Patel, Sharon Coutinho, Urvish Patel, Zeel Patel, Aryan Patel, Himani Trivedi
2025 J jnl
ACM Trans. Archit. Code Optim.
Neel Patel, Ren Wang, Mohammad Alian
2025 J jnl
Frontiers Robotics AI
Neel Patel, Rwik Rana, Deepesh Kumar, Nitish V. Thakor
2025 conf
USENIX ATC
Neel Patel, Mohammad Alian
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Derrick Quinn, Mohammad Nouri, Neel Patel, John Salihu, Alireza Salemi, Sukhan Lee, Hamed Zamani, Mohammad Alian
2024 J jnl
SN Comput. Sci.
Rutul Patel, Neel Patel, Bhupendra Fataniya, Dhaval Shah
2024 A* conf
SODA
Neel Patel, David Wajc
2024 C conf
ICMLA
Neel Patel, Alexander Wong, Ashkan Ebadi
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Neel Patel, Alexander Wong, Ashkan Ebadi
2024 A* conf
STOC
Shaddin Dughmi, Yusuf Hakan Kalayci, Neel Patel
2024 B conf
IEEE Big Data
Hui Zhang, Guangchen Ruan, Roland Hartich, Neel Patel, Ming Zhong, Andrew Kaczorek, Leah Miller, Regan Giesting, Wentao Li, Bo Zhang, Hui Xiao, Reagan Porter, Brian E. Winger, Jian Yang
2024 A* conf
FOCS
Arnold Filtser, Gramoz Goranci, Neel Patel, Maximilian Probst Gutenberg
2024 A* conf
SODA
Ramiro Deo-Campo Vuong, Shaddin Dughmi, Neel Patel, Aditya Prasad
2024 A* conf
HPCA
Neel Patel, Amin Mamandipoor, Mohammad Nouri, Mohammad Alian
2023 J jnl
npj Digit. Medicine
Ju Ji, Jordan Venderley, Hui Zhang, Mengjue Lei, Guangchen Ruan, Neel Patel, Yu-Min Chung, Regan Giesting, Leah Miller
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Neel Patel, David Wajc
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Shaddin Dughmi, Yusuf Hakan Kalayci, Neel Patel
2023 A* conf
ICALP
Shaddin Dughmi, Yusuf Hakan Kalayci, Neel Patel
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Ramiro Deo-Campo Vuong, Shaddin Dughmi, Neel Patel, Aditya Prasad
2023 B conf
ISPASS
Johnson Umeike, Neel Patel, Alex Manley, Amin Mamandipoor, Heechul Yun, Mohammad Alian
2023 A* conf
MICRO
Neel Patel, Amin Mamandipoor, Derrick Quinn, Mohammad Alian
2023 conf
iSES
Harsh Panara, Neel Patel, Trushti Selarka, Amisha Naik
2022 A* conf
EC
Curtis Bechtel, Shaddin Dughmi, Neel Patel
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Curtis Bechtel, Shaddin Dughmi, Neel Patel
2022 B conf
IEEE Big Data
Hui Zhang, Ju Ji, Guangchen Ruan, Neel Patel, Regan Giesting, Leah Miller, Yi Lin Yang, Jian Yang
2022 A* conf
MICRO
Mohammad Alian, Siddharth Agarwal, Jongmin Shin, Neel Patel, Yifan Yuan, Daehoon Kim, Ren Wang, Nam Sung Kim
2022 conf
FAccT
Neel Patel, Reza Shokri, Yair Zick
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Shaddin Dughmi, Yusuf Hakan Kalayci, Neel Patel
2022 conf
COMAD/CODS
Neel Patel, Rahul Gupta, Anas Ali
2021 J jnl
Int. J. Game Theory
Ravi Kant Rai, Urban Larsson, Neel Patel
2021 conf
FAccT
Neel Patel, Martin Strobel, Yair Zick
2021 J jnl
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.
Pierre Berthet-Rayne, S. M. Hadi Sadati, Georgios Petrou, Neel Patel, Stamatia Giannarou, Daniel Richard Leff, Christos Bergeles
2021 J jnl
BMC Bioinform.
Neel Patel, William S. Bush
2021 A conf
AAMAS
Omer Lev, Neel Patel, Vignesh Viswanathan, Yair Zick
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Urban Larsson, Neel Patel, Ravi Kant Rai
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Neel Patel, Martin Strobel, Yair Zick
2020 conf
SMM4H@COLING
V. G. Vinod Vydiswaran, Deahan Yu, Xinyan Zhao, Ermioni Carr, Jonathan Martindale, Jingcheng Xiao, Noha Ghannam, Matteo Althoen, Alexis Castellanos, Neel Patel, Daniel Vasquez
2020 A* conf
IJCAI
Edith Elkind, Neel Patel, Alan Tsang, Yair Zick
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Edith Elkind, Neel Patel, Alan Tsang, Yair Zick
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Neel Patel, Reza Shokri, Yair Zick
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Omer Lev, Neel Patel, Vignesh Viswanathan, Yair Zick
2016 conf
BioNLP@ACL
Brian E. Chapman, Danielle L. Mowery, Evan Narasimhan, Neel Patel, Wendy W. Chapman, Marta E. Heilbrun
2016 J jnl
Am. Math. Mon.
Peter S. Landweber, Emanuel A. Lazar, Neel Patel
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"