Neftali Watkinson

15 papers A 1Journal 2Unranked 11
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2024 conf
SIGCSE (2)
Shirin Haji Amin Shirazi, Mariam Salloum, Neftali Watkinson
2024 conf
SIGCSE (1)
Shirin Haji Amin Shirazi, Mariam Salloum, Annika Speer, Neftali Watkinson
2023 conf
IPDPS Workshops
Neftali Watkinson, Divya Devineni, Victor Joe, Tony Givargis, Alexandru Nicolau, Alexander V. Veidenbaum
2021 conf
EMBC
Neftali Watkinson, Tony Givargis, Victor Joe, Alexandru Nicolau, Alexander V. Veidenbaum
2021 conf
EMBC
Neftali Watkinson, Tony Givargis, Victor Joe, Alexandru Nicolau, Alexander V. Veidenbaum
2021 conf
EduHPC@SC
Henry A. Gabb, Alexandru Nicolau, Satish Puri, Michael D. Shah, Rahul Toppur, Neftali Watkinson, Weijia Xu, Hui Zhang
2020 A conf
SIGCSE
Neftali Watkinson, Lubomir Bic
2020 conf
IPDPS Workshops
Neftali Watkinson, Preston Tai, Alexandru Nicolau, Alexander V. Veidenbaum
2020
Neftali Watkinson
2019 conf
IPDPS Workshops
Neftali Watkinson, Aniket Shivam, Alexandru Nicolau, Alexander V. Veidenbaum
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Aniket Shivam, Neftali Watkinson, Alexandru Nicolau, David A. Padua, Alexander V. Veidenbaum
2018 J jnl
Proc. ACM Program. Lang.
Zhangxiaowen Gong, Zhi Chen, Justin Josef Szaday, David C. Wong, Zehra Sura, Neftali Watkinson, Saeed Maleki, David A. Padua, Alexander V. Veidenbaum, Alexandru Nicolau, Josep Torrellas
2018 conf
LCPC
Aniket Shivam, Neftali Watkinson, Alexandru Nicolau, David A. Padua, Alexander V. Veidenbaum
2017 conf
IISWC
Zhi Chen, Zhangxiaowen Gong, Justin Josef Szaday, David C. Wong, David A. Padua, Alexandru Nicolau, Alexander V. Veidenbaum, Neftali Watkinson, Zehra Sura, Saeed Maleki, Josep Torrellas, Gerald DeJong
2017 conf
LCPC
Neftali Watkinson, Aniket Shivam, Zhi Chen, Alexander V. Veidenbaum, Alexandru Nicolau, Zhangxiaowen Gong
redb/extractors/pe_extractors/pe_sections.py
← Index redb/extractors/pe_extractors/pe_sections.py python
import base64
import hashlib
import inspect
from redb.extractors.enum import Tag
from redb.extractors.pe_extractor import PEExtractor
from redb.models.dataclasses import PESection
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from typing import Any


class PESectionExtractor(PEExtractor):

    def __init__(
        self,
        filepath,
        log,
        exporters=None,
        index_prefix=None,
        elastic_index=None,
        known_benign=False,
        known_malicious=False,
        pe=None,
    ):
        super().__init__(
            filepath,
            log,
            exporters,
            index_prefix,
            elastic_index,
            known_benign,
            known_malicious,
            pe,
        )
        self.elastic_index = self.index_prefix + "-pe_sections"
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

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

    def _extract_sections(self):
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)
        sections = []
        for section in self.pe.sections:
            try:
                name = self.process_binary_string(section.Name)
            except Exception as e:
                name = "UnableToDecode"
                self.log.warning(
                    f'Unable to store section Name "{section.Name}" for {self.hash.sha256}'
                    f" exception {e}"
                )
            sec_sha256 = section.get_hash_sha256()
            sec_md5 = section.get_hash_md5()
            # sec_entropy = "%.2f" % section.get_entropy()
            sec_entropy = section.get_entropy()
            pe_section = PESection(
                _id=hashlib.sha256(
                    name.encode()
                ).hexdigest(),  # usecase 8e035beb02a411f8a9e92d4cf184ad34f52bbd0a81a50c222cdd4706e4e45104, all section have same sha256
                section_name=name,
                section_name_b64=base64.b64encode(
                    section.Name.rstrip(b'\x00')
                ).decode(),  # base64.b64decode(b64) to decode
                section_v_addr=section.VirtualAddress,
                section_v_addr_hex=hex(section.VirtualAddress),
                section_v_size=section.Misc_VirtualSize,
                section_size=section.SizeOfRawData,
                section_pointer_to_raw_data=hex(section.PointerToRawData),
                section_md5=sec_md5,
                section_sha256=sec_sha256,
                section_entropy=sec_entropy,
            )
            sections.append(pe_section)
        return sections

    def extract(self):
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)
        try:
            sections = self._extract_sections()
            # self.export_to_elastic(sections)  # Let the exporters handle this
            return sections
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting PE sections: {e}")
            return None

    def prepare_export_data(self, exporter_type: str) -> Any:
        if exporter_type == "ElasticsearchExporter":
            return self.extract()
        elif exporter_type == "ClickHouseExporter":
            sections = self.extract()
            if sections is None:
                return None
            
            data = []
            current_time = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
            
            for section in sections:
                data.append([
                    self.sha256,                          # sha256
                    self.md5,                             # md5
                    self.sha1,                            # sha1
                    section.section_name,                 # section_name
                    section.section_name_b64,             # section_name_b64
                    section.section_entropy,              # section_entropy
                    section.section_sha256,               # section_sha256
                    section.section_md5,                  # section_md5
                    section.section_size,                 # section_size
                    section.section_v_addr,               # section_v_addr
                    section.section_v_size,               # section_v_size
                    int(section.section_pointer_to_raw_data, 16),  # section_pointer_to_raw_data - convert from hex
                    current_time                          # analysis_date
                ])
            
            column_names = [
                'sha256', 'md5', 'sha1', 'section_name', 'section_name_b64',
                'section_entropy', 'section_sha256', 'section_md5', 'section_size',
                'section_v_addr', 'section_v_size', 'section_pointer_to_raw_data',
                'analysis_date'
            ]
            
            if not data:
                return None

            column_type_names = [
                'FixedString(64)', 'FixedString(32)', 'FixedString(40)',
                'LowCardinality(String)', 'LowCardinality(String)',
                'Float64', 'FixedString(64)', 'FixedString(32)', 'UInt64',
                'UInt64', 'UInt64', 'UInt64',
                'DateTime64(3, \'UTC\')'
            ]

            return (data, column_names, column_type_names)

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