Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca

31 papers B 2Misc 1Journal 14Unranked 14
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Netw. Serv. Manag.
Hernani D. Chantre, Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca
2026 J jnl
IEEE Internet Things J.
Silvana Trindade, Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Yeison Stiven Murcia, Oscar Maurício Caicedo Rendón, Daniela M. Casas-Velasco, Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca
2024 conf
WF-IoT
Eduardo E. P. Mosca, Silvio E. S. B. Ribeiro, Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca, Carlos A. Astudillo
2024 J jnl
CLEI Electron. J.
Rodrigo Augusto Cardoso da Silva, Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Caio Vinicius Dadauto, Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca, Ricardo da Silva Torres
2023 J jnl
CLEI Electron. J.
Carlos Alberto Astudillo Trujillo, Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca
2021 J jnl
Int. J. Commun. Syst.
Ana Isabel Montoya-Munoz, Daniela M. Casas-Velasco, Felipe Estrada Solano, Oscar Maurício Caicedo Rendón, Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca
2021 conf
SBRC Companion
Daniela M. Casas-Velasco, Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca, Oscar Maurício Caicedo Rendón
2020 conf
SBRC Companion
Oscar Jaime Ciceri Coral, Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca
2020 conf
SBRC Companion
Silvana Trindade, Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca
2020 J jnl
IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun.
Hernani D. Chantre, Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca
2020 conf
SBRC
Helder May Nunes da Silva Oliveira, Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca
2015 conf
ICC
Pedro M. Moura, Rafael Augusto Scaraficci, Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca
2015 J jnl
Comput. Networks
Raouf Boutaba, Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca, Dzmitry Kliazovich, Noura Limam
2015 conf
CIT/IUCC/DASC/PICom
Allan Mariano de Souza, Roberto Sadao Yokoyama, Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca, Rodolfo Ipolito Meneguette, Leandro Aparecido Villas
2014 J jnl
Wirel. Commun. Mob. Comput.
Juliana Freitag Borin, Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca
2014 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput.
Pedro Henrique Gomes, Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca, Omar Carvalho Branquinho
2011 B conf
GLOBECOM
Gustavo Prado Alkmim, Daniel Macêdo Batista, Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca
2011 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Netw. Serv. Manag.
Daniel M. Batista, Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca
2010 J jnl
IEEE Commun. Mag.
Daniel M. Batista, Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca
2010 conf
AINA Workshops
Vinicius Garcia de Oliveira, Marcos Rogério Salvador, Daniel Kenji Takayassu, Vinicius Geraldo Felix, Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca
2010 conf
ICC
Sávio R. A. dos Santos Rosa, André C. Drummond, Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca
2009 conf
NTMS
Cecília de A. Castro César, Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca, Solon Venâncio de Carvalho
2009 conf
CNSR
Xiaomin Chen, Mohit Chamania, Admela Jukan, André C. Drummond, Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca
2009 Misc conf
SAC
Daniel M. Batista, André C. Drummond, Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca
2007 J jnl
IEEE Commun. Mag.
S.-H. Gary Chan, Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca, Giovanni Pau
2007 conf
ICC
Daniel M. Batista, Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca, Fabrizio Granelli, Dzmitry Kliazovich
2002 conf
ICC
Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca, Flávio de Melo Pereira, Dalton Soares Arantes
2002 conf
ICC
Kleber Vieira Cardoso, José Ferreira de Rezende, Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca
2002 B conf
GLOBECOM
Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca, Flávio de Melo Pereira, Dalton Soares Arantes
redb/extractors/elf_extractors/elf_notes.py
← Index redb/extractors/elf_extractors/elf_notes.py python
import inspect
import binascii
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 ELFNote


class ELFNotesExtractor(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_notes = []
        self.elastic_index = self.index_prefix + "-elf_notes"
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

    def _get_note_type_string(self, note_type: int, note_name: str) -> str:
        """Convert note type number to human-readable string."""

        # GNU-specific note types
        if note_name == "GNU":
            gnu_types = {
                1: "NT_GNU_ABI_TAG",
                2: "NT_GNU_HWCAP",
                3: "NT_GNU_BUILD_ID",
                4: "NT_GNU_GOLD_VERSION",
                5: "NT_GNU_PROPERTY_TYPE_0"
            }
            return gnu_types.get(note_type, f"NT_GNU_UNKNOWN_{note_type}")

        # Generic note types
        generic_types = {
            1: "NT_PRSTATUS",
            2: "NT_FPREGSET",
            3: "NT_PRPSINFO",
            4: "NT_TASKSTRUCT",
            5: "NT_AUXV",
            6: "NT_PSTATUS",
            7: "NT_FPREGS",
            8: "NT_PSINFO",
            9: "NT_PRCRED",
            10: "NT_UTSNAME",
            11: "NT_LWPSTATUS",
            12: "NT_LWPSINFO",
            13: "NT_PRFPXREG"
        }

        return generic_types.get(note_type, f"NT_UNKNOWN_{note_type}")

    def _format_note_description(self, note_desc, note_type: int, note_name: str) -> str:
        """Format note description based on type for human readability."""
        try:
            if not note_desc:
                return ""

            # Handle build ID specifically (common case)
            if note_name == "GNU" and note_type == 3:  # NT_GNU_BUILD_ID
                if isinstance(note_desc, bytes):
                    return binascii.hexlify(note_desc).decode('ascii')
                return str(note_desc)

            # Handle ABI tag
            if note_name == "GNU" and note_type == 1:  # NT_GNU_ABI_TAG
                if isinstance(note_desc, bytes) and len(note_desc) >= 16:
                    # ABI tag contains OS, major, minor, subminor
                    import struct
                    try:
                        os_val, major, minor, subminor = struct.unpack('<IIII', note_desc[:16])
                        os_names = {0: "Linux", 1: "GNU", 2: "Solaris", 3: "FreeBSD"}
                        os_name = os_names.get(os_val, f"OS_{os_val}")
                        return f"{os_name} {major}.{minor}.{subminor}"
                    except:
                        pass

            # For binary data, convert to hex
            if isinstance(note_desc, bytes):
                # Limit size for very large descriptions
                if len(note_desc) > 256:
                    return binascii.hexlify(note_desc[:256]).decode('ascii') + "..."
                return binascii.hexlify(note_desc).decode('ascii')

            # For string data
            if isinstance(note_desc, str):
                return note_desc

            # Fallback
            return str(note_desc)

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error formatting note description: {e}")
            return str(note_desc) if note_desc else ""

    def _extract_note_data(self, note, section_name: str) -> ELFNote:
        """Extract data from a single note entry."""
        try:
            # Get note properties
            note_name = note.get('n_name', '').rstrip('\x00') if note.get('n_name') else ""
            note_type_raw = note.get('n_type', 0)
            note_desc_raw = note.get('n_desc', b'')

            # Handle note_type - pyelftools may return string or int
            if isinstance(note_type_raw, str):
                # pyelftools returned the type as a string like 'NT_GNU_BUILD_ID'
                note_type_str = note_type_raw
                # Map known string types to integers
                note_type_map = {
                    'NT_GNU_ABI_TAG': 1,
                    'NT_GNU_HWCAP': 2,
                    'NT_GNU_BUILD_ID': 3,
                    'NT_GNU_GOLD_VERSION': 4,
                    'NT_GNU_PROPERTY_TYPE_0': 5,
                    'NT_PRSTATUS': 1,
                    'NT_FPREGSET': 2,
                    'NT_PRPSINFO': 3,
                    'NT_TASKSTRUCT': 4,
                    'NT_AUXV': 5,
                    'NT_PSTATUS': 6,
                    'NT_FPREGS': 7,
                    'NT_PSINFO': 8,
                    'NT_PRCRED': 9,
                    'NT_UTSNAME': 10,
                    'NT_LWPSTATUS': 11,
                    'NT_LWPSINFO': 12,
                    'NT_PRFPXREG': 13,
                }
                note_type = note_type_map.get(note_type_raw, 0)
            else:
                note_type = note_type_raw
                # Get human-readable type string
                note_type_str = self._get_note_type_string(note_type, note_name)

            # Format description
            note_desc = self._format_note_description(note_desc_raw, note_type, note_name)

            return ELFNote(
                note_name=note_name,
                note_type=note_type,
                note_type_str=note_type_str,
                note_desc=note_desc,
                note_section=section_name
            )

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

    def _extract_notes_from_sections(self, elf) -> List[Dict]:
        """Extract notes from note sections."""
        notes = []

        try:
            # Look for note sections
            for section in elf.iter_sections():
                if (section.name and
                    section.name.startswith('.note') and
                    hasattr(section, 'iter_notes')):

                    section_name = section.name
                    try:
                        for note in section.iter_notes():
                            note_data = self._extract_note_data(note, section_name)
                            if note_data:
                                notes.append(note_data)
                    except Exception as e:
                        self.log.debug(f"Could not process notes in section {section_name}: {e}")

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting notes from sections: {e}")

        return notes

    def _extract_notes_from_segments(self, elf) -> List[Dict]:
        """Extract notes from PT_NOTE segments."""
        notes = []

        try:
            # Look for PT_NOTE segments
            for segment in elf.iter_segments():
                if segment.header.get('p_type') == 'PT_NOTE':
                    segment_name = f"PT_NOTE_segment_{segment.header.get('p_offset', 0)}"

                    try:
                        if hasattr(segment, 'iter_notes'):
                            for note in segment.iter_notes():
                                note_data = self._extract_note_data(note, segment_name)
                                if note_data:
                                    notes.append(note_data)
                    except Exception as e:
                        self.log.debug(f"Could not process notes in segment: {e}")

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting notes from segments: {e}")

        return notes

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

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

            def extract_data(elf):
                all_notes = []

                # Extract notes from note sections
                section_notes = self._extract_notes_from_sections(elf)
                all_notes.extend(section_notes)

                # Extract notes from PT_NOTE segments
                segment_notes = self._extract_notes_from_segments(elf)
                all_notes.extend(segment_notes)

                # Remove duplicates (same note might appear in section and segment)
                unique_notes = []
                seen_notes = set()
                for note in all_notes:
                    note_key = (note.note_name, note.note_type, note.note_desc)
                    if note_key not in seen_notes:
                        seen_notes.add(note_key)
                        unique_notes.append(note)

                return unique_notes

            if not self._is_elf_file():
                return None

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

            self.elf_notes = result
            return self.elf_notes

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting ELF notes {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_notes
        elif exporter_type == "ClickHouseExporter":
            try:
                # Return valid empty structure if no notes found
                # None is reserved for actual errors

                # Prepare data arrays for all notes
                data = []
                current_time = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
                for note in self.elf_notes:
                    row = [
                        self.sha256,
                        self.md5,
                        self.sha1,
                        note.note_name,
                        note.note_type,
                        note.note_type_str,
                        note.note_desc,
                        note.note_section,
                        current_time
                    ]
                    data.append(row)

                column_names = [
                    'sha256', 'md5', 'sha1',
                    'note_name', 'note_type', 'note_type_str',
                    'note_desc', 'note_section',
                    'analysis_date'
                ]

                if not data:
                    return None

                column_type_names = [
                    'FixedString(64)', 'FixedString(32)', 'FixedString(40)',
                    'LowCardinality(String)', 'UInt32', 'LowCardinality(String)',
                    'String CODEC(ZSTD(3))', 'LowCardinality(String)',
                    'DateTime64(3, \'UTC\')'
                ]

                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_notes"