Neil Gong

31 papers A* 7Journal 19Unranked 5
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Vincent Siu, Jingxuan He, Kyle Montgomery, Zhun Wang, Neil Gong, Chenguang Wang, Dawn Song
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Yuqi Jia, Ruiqi Wang, Xilong Wang, Chong Xiang, Neil Gong
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Guangwei Zhang, Jianing Zhu, Cheng Qian, Neil Gong, Rada Mihalcea, Zhaozhuo Xu, Jingrui He, Jiaqi Ma, Yun Huang, Chaowei Xiao, Bowen Li, Ahmed Abbasi, Dongwon Lee, Heng Ji, Denghui Zhang
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Yuepeng Hu, Yuqi Jia, Mengyuan Li, Dawn Song, Neil Gong
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Xilong Wang, Yinuo Liu, Zhun Wang, Dawn Song, Neil Gong
2025 conf
AISec@CCS
Zedian Shao, Hongbin Liu, Jaden Mu, Neil Gong
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Yuepeng Hu, Zhengyuan Jiang, Mengyuan Li, Osama Ahmed, Zhicong Huang, Cheng Hong, Neil Gong
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Jiadong Lou, Xu Yuan, Rui Zhang, Xingliang Yuan, Neil Gong, Nian-Feng Tzeng
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Jiacheng Liang, Yuhui Wang, Changjiang Li, Rongyi Zhu, Tanqiu Jiang, Neil Gong, Ting Wang
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Toluwani Aremu, Noor Hussein, Munachiso Nwadike, Samuele Poppi, Jie Zhang, Karthik Nandakumar, Neil Gong, Nils Lukas
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Wei Zou, Yupei Liu, Yanting Wang, Ying Chen, Neil Gong, Jinyuan Jia
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Tianneng Shi, Kaijie Zhu, Zhun Wang, Yuqi Jia, Will Cai, Weida Liang, Haonan Wang, Hend Alzahrani, Joshua Lu, Kenji Kawaguchi, Basel Alomair, Xuandong Zhao, William Yang Wang, Neil Gong, Wenbo Guo, Dawn Song
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Xingjun Ma, Yifeng Gao, Yixu Wang, Ruofan Wang, Xin Wang, Ye Sun, Yifan Ding, Hengyuan Xu, Yunhao Chen, Yunhan Zhao, Hanxun Huang, Yige Li, Jiaming Zhang, Xiang Zheng, Yang Bai, Zuxuan Wu, Xipeng Qiu, Jingfeng Zhang, Yiming Li, Jun Sun, Cong Wang, Jindong Gu, Baoyuan Wu, Siheng Chen, Tianwei Zhang, Yang Liu, Mingming Gong, Tongliang Liu, Shirui Pan, Cihang Xie, Tianyu Pang, Yinpeng Dong, Ruoxi Jia, Yang Zhang, Shiqing Ma, Xiangyu Zhang, Neil Gong, Chaowei Xiao, Sarah M. Erfani, Bo Li, Masashi Sugiyama, Dacheng Tao, James Bailey, Yu-Gang Jiang
2025 J jnl
Found. Trends Priv. Secur.
Xingjun Ma, Yifeng Gao, Yixu Wang, Ruofan Wang, Xin Wang, Ye Sun, Yifan Ding, Hengyuan Xu, Yunhao Chen, Yunhao Zhao, Hanxun Huang, Yige Li, Yutao Wu, Jiaming Zhang, Xiang Zheng, Yang Bai, Yiming Li, Zuxuan Wu, Xipeng Qiu, Jingfeng Zhang, Xudong Han, Haonan Li, Jun Sun, Cong Wang, Jindong Gu, Baoyuan Wu, Siheng Chen, Tianwei Zhang, Yang Liu, Mingming Gong, Tongliang Liu, Shirui Pan, Cihang Xie, Tianyu Pang, Yinpeng Dong, Ruoxi Jia, Yang Zhang, Shiqing Ma, Xiangyu Zhang, Neil Gong, Chaowei Xiao, Sarah M. Erfani, Tim Baldwin, Bo Li, Masashi Sugiyama, Dacheng Tao, James Bailey, Yu-Gang Jiang
2025 A* conf
USENIX Security Symposium
Jiacheng Du, Jiahui Hu, Zhibo Wang, Peng Sun, Neil Gong, Kui Ren, Chun Chen
2024 A* conf
CCS
Neil Gong, Qi Li, Xiaoli Zhang
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Moyang Guo, Yuepeng Hu, Zhengyuan Jiang, Zeyu Li, Amir Sadovnik, Arka Daw, Neil Gong
2024 A* conf
NeurIPS
Hongbin Liu, Moyang Guo, Zhengyuan Jiang, Lun Wang, Neil Gong
2024 A* conf
CCS
Minghong Fang, Zifan Zhang, Hairi, Prashant Khanduri, Jia Liu, Songtao Lu, Yuchen Liu, Neil Gong
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Yujie Zhang, Neil Gong, Michael K. Reiter
2024 conf
ACL (1)
Yueqi Xie, Minghong Fang, Renjie Pi, Neil Gong
2024 A* conf
CCS
Bo Hui, Haolin Yuan, Neil Gong, Philippe Burlina, Yinzhi Cao
2024 conf
LAMPS@CCS
Kaijie Zhu, Jindong Wang, Jiaheng Zhou, Zichen Wang, Hao Chen, Yidong Wang, Linyi Yang, Wei Ye, Yue Zhang, Neil Gong, Xing Xie
2024 A* conf
EMNLP
Roy Xie, Junlin Wang, Ruomin Huang, Minxing Zhang, Rong Ge, Jian Pei, Neil Gong, Bhuwan Dhingra
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Mihai Christodorescu, Ryan Craven, Soheil Feizi, Neil Gong, Mia Hoffmann, Somesh Jha, Zhengyuan Jiang, Mehrdad Saberi Kamarposhti, John C. Mitchell, Jessica Newman, Emelia Probasco, Yanjun Qi, Khawaja Shams, Matthew Turek
2024 A* conf
SP
Yuchen Yang, Bo Hui, Haolin Yuan, Neil Gong, Yinzhi Cao
2024 J jnl
Proc. Priv. Enhancing Technol.
Wei Sun, Tingjun Chen, Neil Gong
2024 conf
ACL (Findings)
Wen Huang, Hongbin Liu, Minxin Guo, Neil Gong
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Zonghao Huang, Neil Gong, Michael K. Reiter
2022 conf
CNS
Jiyu Chen, Yiwen Guo, Hao Chen, Neil Gong
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Wei Sun, Tingjun Chen, Neil Gong
redb/extractors/macho_extractors/macho_imports.py
← Index redb/extractors/macho_extractors/macho_imports.py python
import inspect
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from typing import Any

from redb.extractors.enum import Tag
from redb.extractors.macho_extractor import MachOExtractor
from redb.models.dataclasses import MachOImport


class MachOImportExtractor(MachOExtractor):

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

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

    def _extract_imports(self, arch_name=None):
        """Extract import information from the MachO binary for a specific architecture.

        Handles machofile v2026.2.4+ API where get_imported_functions() returns:
        Dict[str, List[Dict]] where each dict has {'name': str, 'sources': [str, ...]}
        """
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

        if not self.macho:
            return None

        try:
            # Get imported functions using API for specific architecture
            imported_functions = self.macho.get_imported_functions(arch=arch_name)
            if not imported_functions:
                return None

            # Keep the library→functions mapping (like PE does)
            library_names = []
            imports_with_mapping = []  # List of {library: [(name, source), ...]}

            for dylib_name, functions in imported_functions.items():
                # v2026.2.4+: dylib_name is already str, but handle bytes for compatibility
                if isinstance(dylib_name, bytes):
                    dylib_name = dylib_name.decode('utf-8', errors='replace')
                library_names.append(dylib_name)

                # Process function entries
                func_list = []
                for func_entry in functions:
                    # v2026.2.4+: func_entry is {'name': str, 'sources': [str, ...]}
                    if isinstance(func_entry, dict):
                        func_name = func_entry.get('name', '')
                        # Join sources if multiple, take first if single
                        sources = func_entry.get('sources', [])
                        import_source = sources[0] if sources else None
                        func_list.append((func_name, import_source))
                    else:
                        # Legacy format: func_entry is str or bytes
                        if isinstance(func_entry, bytes):
                            func_entry = func_entry.decode('utf-8', errors='replace')
                        func_list.append((func_entry, None))

                imports_with_mapping.append({dylib_name: func_list})

            # Count total functions
            total_functions = sum(len(list(d.values())[0]) for d in imports_with_mapping)

            # Create import dataclass with mapping preserved
            macho_import = MachOImport(
                macho_imports_total=total_functions,
                macho_import_libraryName=library_names if library_names else None,
                macho_import_functions=imports_with_mapping if imports_with_mapping else None
            )

            return macho_import

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting MachO imports for arch {arch_name}: {e}")
            return None

    def extract(self):
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)
        try:
            # Get architectures (macho is already parsed in base class)
            architectures = self.macho.get_architectures()
            if len(architectures) > 1:
                # FAT binary - return list of imports for each architecture
                results = []
                for arch_name in architectures:
                    imports = self._extract_imports(arch_name)
                    if imports:
                        imports.arch_identifier = arch_name
                        results.append(imports)
                return results
            else:
                # Single architecture - return single result
                return self._extract_imports(architectures[0] if architectures else None)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting MachO imports: {e}")
            return None

    def prepare_export_data(self, exporter_type: str) -> Any:
        if exporter_type == "ElasticsearchExporter":
            return self.extract()
        elif exporter_type == "ClickHouseExporter":
            if not self.macho:
                return None

            # Get architectures (macho is already parsed in base class)
            try:
                architectures = self.macho.get_architectures()
                is_fat = len(architectures) > 1
            except Exception as e:
                self.log.error(f"Could not get architectures: {e}")
                return None

            # Flatten the data - one row per function import (like PE imports)
            data = []
            current_time = datetime.now(timezone.utc)

            # Loop through each architecture (1 for single, multiple for FAT)
            for arch_name in architectures:
                # Get architecture-specific sha256
                try:
                    arch_general_info = self.macho.get_general_info(arch=arch_name)
                    arch_header_raw = self.macho.get_macho_header(arch=arch_name)
                    arch_sha256 = arch_general_info.get('SHA256', self.sha256)
                    arch_cputype_raw = arch_header_raw.get('cputype', 0) if arch_header_raw else 0
                except Exception as e:
                    self.log.warning(f"Could not get arch-specific data for {arch_name}: {e}")
                    arch_sha256 = self.sha256
                    arch_cputype_raw = 0

                # Get imports for this architecture
                macho_import = self._extract_imports(arch_name)
                if not macho_import or not macho_import.macho_import_functions:
                    continue

                # Flatten to one row per (library, function) pair
                for lib_funcs in macho_import.macho_import_functions:
                    for lib, funcs in lib_funcs.items():
                        for func_name, import_source in funcs:
                            data.append([
                                arch_sha256,        # sha256 (arch-specific)
                                lib,                # library_name
                                func_name,          # function_name
                                import_source,      # import_source (chained_fixups, bind_opcodes, symtab)
                                current_time,       # analysis_date
                            ])

            column_names = [
                'sha256',
                'library_name', 'function_name', 'import_source',
                'analysis_date'
            ]

            if not data:
                return None

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

            return (data, column_names, column_type_names)

        return None

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