Nelson Sollenberger

51 papers B 13Misc 1Journal 27Unranked 10
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2002 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Commun.
Geoffrey Ye Li, Jack H. Winters, Nelson Sollenberger
2002 J jnl
IEEE Commun. Lett.
Rick S. Blum, Jack H. Winters, Nelson Sollenberger
2002 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun.
Zoran Kostic, Nelson Sollenberger
2001 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Commun.
Geoffrey Ye Li, Nelson Sollenberger
2001 conf
VTC Fall
Carol C. Martin, Jack H. Winters, Nelson Sollenberger
2001 J jnl
IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun.
Xiaoxin Qiu, Kapil Chawla, Justin C.-I. Chuang, Nelson Sollenberger
2001 conf
VTC Fall
Rick S. Blum, Jack H. Winters, Nelson Sollenberger
2001 conf
ICC
Ye (Geoffrey) Li, Jack H. Winters, Nelson Sollenberger
2001 conf
ICC
Xiaoxin Qiu, Li-Fung Chang, Kapil Chawla, Justin C.-I. Chuang, Nelson Sollenberger, Jim Whitehead
2000 B conf
WCNC
Xiaoxin Qiu, Kapil Chawla, Li-Fung Chang, Justin C.-I. Chuang, Nelson Sollenberger, James F. Whitehead
2000 J jnl
IEEE Commun. Mag.
Justin C.-I. Chuang, Nelson Sollenberger
2000 B conf
ICCCN
Zoran Kostic, Nelson Sollenberger
2000 J jnl
IEEE Commun. Lett.
Moe Z. Win, George Chrisikos, Nelson Sollenberger
2000 J jnl
IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun.
Sirikiat Lek Ariyavisitakul, Jack H. Winters, Nelson Sollenberger
2000 B conf
PIMRC
Justin C.-I. Chuang, Ye (Geoffrey) Li, Nelson Sollenberger, Lang Lin
2000 B conf
GLOBECOM
Leonard J. Cimini Jr., Nelson Sollenberger
2000 J jnl
IEEE Commun. Lett.
Leonard J. Cimini Jr., Nelson Sollenberger
2000 J jnl
IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun.
Moe Z. Win, George Chrisikos, Nelson Sollenberger
2000 J jnl
IEEE Wirel. Commun.
Xiaoxin Qiu, Kapil K. Chawla, Li-Fung Chang, Justin C.-I. Chuang, Nelson Sollenberger, James F. Whitehead
2000 conf
ICC (1)
Ye (Geoffrey) Li, Nelson Sollenberger
2000 B conf
GLOBECOM
Moe Z. Win, George Chrisikos, Andreas F. Molisch, Nelson Sollenberger
2000 B conf
WCNC
Kapil Chawla, Xiaoxin Qiu, Justin C.-I. Chuang, Nelson Sollenberger
2000 B conf
PIMRC
Xiaoxin Qiu, Li-Fung Chang, Kapil Chawla, Justin C.-I. Chuang, Nelson Sollenberger, Jim Whitehead
1999 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Commun.
Ye (Geoffrey) Li, Nelson Sollenberger
1999 J jnl
IEEE Commun. Mag.
Justin C.-I. Chuang, Leonard J. Cimini Jr., Geoffrey Ye Li, Bruce McNair, Nelson Sollenberger, Hong Zhao, Lang Lin, M. Suzuki
1999 B conf
WCNC
Moe Z. Win, George Chrisikos, Nelson Sollenberger
1999 conf
ICC
Leonard J. Cimini Jr., Nelson Sollenberger
1999 J jnl
IEEE Wirel. Commun.
Nelson Sollenberger, Nambi Seshadri, Richard V. Cox
1999 J jnl
IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun.
Ye (Geoffrey) Li, Justin C.-I. Chuang, Nelson Sollenberger
1999 conf
ICC
Ye (Geoffrey) Li, Justin C.-I. Chuang, Nelson Sollenberger
1999 B conf
WCNC
Justin C.-I. Chuang, Nelson Sollenberger
1998 J jnl
IEEE Commun. Mag.
Leonard J. Cimini Jr., Justin C.-I. Chuang, Nelson Sollenberger
1998 conf
ICC
Ye (Geoffrey) Li, Jack H. Winters, Nelson Sollenberger
1998 conf
ICC
Ye (Geoffrey) Li, Leonard J. Cimini Jr., Nelson Sollenberger
1998 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Commun.
Ye (Geoffrey) Li, Leonard J. Cimini Jr., Nelson Sollenberger
1998 J jnl
IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun.
Justin C.-I. Chuang, Nelson Sollenberger
1997 B conf
PIMRC
Justin C.-I. Chuang, Nelson Sollenberger
1997 B conf
PIMRC
Ye (Geoffrey) Li, Jack H. Winters, Nelson Sollenberger
1997 J jnl
Mob. Networks Appl.
Babak Daneshrad, Leonard J. Cimini Jr., Manny Carloni, Nelson Sollenberger
1997 conf
ICC (3)
Sirikiat Lek Ariyavisitakul, Nelson Sollenberger, Larry J. Greenstein
1997 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Commun.
Sirikiat Lek Ariyavisitakul, Nelson Sollenberger, Larry J. Greenstein
1995 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Commun.
Li-Fung Chang, Fuyun Ling, David D. Falconer, Nelson Sollenberger
1995 J jnl
IEEE Wirel. Commun.
Joseph F. Rizzo, Nelson Sollenberger
1995 B conf
PIMRC
Shaw-Min Lei, Hamilton W. Arnold, Nelson Sollenberger
1994 J jnl
Int. J. Wirel. Inf. Networks
Justin C.-I. Chuang, Nelson Sollenberger, Donald C. Cox
1994 B conf
VTC
Justin C.-I. Chuang, Nelson Sollenberger
1994 J jnl
IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun.
Justin C.-I. Chuang, Nelson Sollenberger
1993 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Commun.
Li-Fung Chang, Nelson Sollenberger, Sirikiat Lek Ariyavisitakul
1991 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Commun.
Justin C.-I. Chuang, Nelson Sollenberger
1990 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Commun.
Nelson Sollenberger, Justin C.-I. Chuang
1989 Misc conf
ICASSP
James L. Dixon, Vijay K. Varma, Nelson Sollenberger, David W. Lin
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"