Oliver Bent

25 papers A* 2B 1Journal 17Unranked 5
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Ilann Amiaud-Plachy, Michael Blank, Oliver Bent, Sebastien Boyer
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Eoin Quinn, Ghassene Jebali, Maxime Seince, Oliver Bent
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Eoin Quinn, Marco Carobene, Jean Quentin, Sebastien Boyer, Miguel Arbesú, Oliver Bent
2025 A* conf
ICLR
Jacob Beck, Shikha Surana, Manus McAuliffe, Oliver Bent, Thomas D. Barrett, Juan Jose Garau-Luis, Paul Duckworth
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Christoph Brunken, Sebastien Boyer, Mustafa Omar, Martin Maarand, Olivier Peltre, Solal Attias, Bakary N'tji Diallo, Anastasia Markina, Olaf Othersen, Oliver Bent
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Ulrich A. Mbou Sob, Qiulin Li, Miguel Arbesú, Oliver Bent, Andries P. Smit, Arnu Pretorius
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Jacob Beck, Shikha Surana, Manus McAuliffe, Oliver Bent, Thomas D. Barrett, Juan Jose Garau Luis, Paul Duckworth
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Frederic Renard, Cyprien Courtot, Alfredo Reichlin, Oliver Bent
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Arturo Fiorellini-Bernardis, Sebastien Boyer, Christoph Brunken, Bakary N'tji Diallo, Karim Beguir, Nicolás López Carranza, Oliver Bent
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Sebastien Boyer, Sam Money-Kyrle, Oliver Bent
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Oliver Bent, Komminist Weldemariam, Md. Abrar Istiak, Taufiq Hasan, Andrea Cavallaro
2020 conf
ICHI
Charles M. Wachira, Sekou L. Remy, Oliver Bent, Nelson Bore, Samuel Osebe, Komminist Weldemariam, Aisha Walcott-Bryant
2020 J jnl
IEEE Signal Process. Mag.
Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Oliver Bent, Lucio Marcenaro, Komminist Weldemariam, Andrea Cavallaro
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Parthasarathy Suryanarayanan, Ching-Huei Tsou, Ananya Poddar, Diwakar Mahajan, Bharath Dandala, Piyush Madan, Anshul Agrawal, Charles Wachira, Samuel Mogaka Osebe, Osnat Bar-Shira, Clifton Kipchirchir, Sharon Okwako, William Ogallo, Fred Otieno, Timothy Nyota, Fiona Matu, Vesna Resende Barros, Daniel Shats, Oren Kagan, Sekou L. Remy, Oliver Bent, Shilpa Mahatma, Aisha Walcott-Bryant, Divya Pathak, Michal Rosen-Zvi
2019 conf
NeurIPS (Competition and Demos)
Sekou L. Remy, Oliver Bent
2019 conf
IEEE ICBC
Nelson Kibichii Bore, Ravi Kiran Raman, Isaac M. Markus, Sekou L. Remy, Oliver Bent, Michael Hind, Eleftheria Kyriaki Pissadaki, Biplav Srivastava, Roman Vaculín, Kush R. Varshney, Komminist Weldemariam
2018 A* conf
AAAI
Oliver Bent, Sekou L. Remy, Stephen J. Roberts, Aisha Walcott-Bryant
2018 J jnl
CoRR
Nelson Kibichii Bore, Ravi Kiran Raman, Isaac M. Markus, Sekou L. Remy, Oliver Bent, Michael Hind, Eleftheria Kyriaki Pissadaki, Biplav Srivastava, Roman Vaculín, Kush R. Varshney, Komminist Weldemariam
2018 J jnl
CoRR
Sekou L. Remy, Oliver Bent, Nelson Bore
2017 J jnl
Future Gener. Comput. Syst.
Oliver Bent, Prasenjit Dey, Komminist Weldemariam, Mukesh K. Mohania
2017 J jnl
CoRR
Oliver Bent, Sekou L. Remy, Stephen J. Roberts, Aisha Walcott-Bryant
2016 conf
ITSC
Aisha Walcott-Bryant, Michiaki Tatsubori, Reginald E. Bryant, Erick Oduor, Samuel Omondi, Samuel Osebe, John Wamburu, Oliver Bent
2015 conf
MOBILESoft
Juliet Mutahi, Oliver Bent, Andrew Kinai, Komminist Weldemariam, Bikram Sengupta
2015 J jnl
IBM J. Res. Dev.
Juliet Mutahi, Oliver Bent, Andrew Kinai, Komminist Weldemariam, Bikram Sengupta, Danish Contractor
2015 B conf
L@S
Jaye Clarkes-Nias, Juliet Mutahi, Andrew Kinai, Oliver Bent, Komminist Weldemariam, Saurabh Srivastava
redb/extractors/pe_extractors/pe_signature_old.py
← Index redb/extractors/pe_extractors/pe_signature_old.py python
import inspect
import pefile

from hashlib import md5, sha1, sha256

from asn1crypto import cms, pem, x509, core

from redb.extractors.enum import Tag
from redb.extractors.pe_extractor import PEExtractor
from redb.models.dataclasses import PECertificate, PESigner


class PESignatureExtractor(PEExtractor):
    """
    RFC 3161 - Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Time-Stamp Protocol (TSP)
    Section 2.4.2 defines the TSTInfo structure.
    https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3161#section-2.4.2

    Microsoft Authenticode Time Stamping Specification
    https://download.microsoft.com/download/9/c/5/9c5b2167-8017-4bae-9fde-d599bac8184a/Authenticode_PE.docx
    """

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

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

    @staticmethod
    def _extract_certificate_info(cert_data):
        # self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

        certificate = x509.Certificate.load(cert_data)
        certificate_serial_number = format(certificate.serial_number, "x").upper()
        grouped_serial_number = ":".join(
            [
                certificate_serial_number[i : i + 2]
                for i in range(0, len(certificate_serial_number), 2)
            ]
        )
        return PECertificate(
            _id=format(certificate.serial_number, "x").upper(),
            certificate_serial_number=grouped_serial_number,
            certificate_issuer=certificate.issuer.human_friendly,
            certificate_subject=certificate.subject.human_friendly,
            certificate_valid_from=certificate["tbs_certificate"]["validity"][
                "not_before"
            ].native.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"),
            certificate_valid_to=certificate["tbs_certificate"]["validity"][
                "not_after"
            ].native.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"),
            certificate_thumbprint=sha1(cert_data).hexdigest().upper(),
            certificate_md5=md5(cert_data).hexdigest().upper(),
            certificate_sha256=sha256(cert_data).hexdigest().upper(),
        )

    @staticmethod
    def _parse_microsoft_time_stamp(ts_token):
        class TSTInfo(core.Sequence):
            _fields = [
                ("version", core.Integer),
                ("policy_id", core.ObjectIdentifier),
                ("message_imprint", core.Sequence),
                ("serial_number", core.Integer),
                ("gen_time", core.GeneralizedTime),
                ("accuracy", core.Sequence, {"optional": True}),
                ("ordering", core.Boolean, {"optional": True}),
                ("nonce", core.Integer, {"optional": True}),
                ("tsa", core.Sequence, {"optional": True}),
                ("extensions", core.Sequence, {"optional": True}),
            ]

        # The content should be SignedData
        signed_data = ts_token["content"]

        # The actual timestamp should be in the encapContentInfo
        encap_content_info = signed_data["encap_content_info"]
        tst_info = TSTInfo.load(encap_content_info["content"])

        # Extract the genTime field from TSTInfo, type(genTime): <class 'datetime.datetime'>
        gen_time = tst_info["gen_time"].native

        return gen_time

    def _extract_signer_info(self, signer):
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)
        signing_time = None

        for attr_set in [signer["signed_attrs"], signer["unsigned_attrs"]]:
            if attr_set:
                for attribute in attr_set:
                    attr_type = attribute["type"].dotted
                    if attr_type == "1.2.840.113549.1.9.5":  # signingTime
                        signing_time = attribute["values"][0].native
                        break
                    elif (
                        attr_type == "1.3.6.1.4.1.311.3.2.1"
                        or attr_type == "1.3.6.1.4.1.311.3.3.1"
                    ):  # microsoft_time_stamp_token
                        try:
                            ts_token = attribute["values"][0].native
                            signing_time = self._parse_microsoft_time_stamp(ts_token)
                            self.log.debug(
                                f"Signing Time from Microsoft Time Stamp Token: {signing_time}"
                            )
                        except Exception as e:
                            self.log.error(
                                f"Error parsing Microsoft Time Stamp Token: {e}"
                            )
                            self.log.error("Token structure:", attribute["values"][0])
                    elif attr_type == "1.2.840.113549.1.9.6":  # counterSignature
                        counter_sig_values = attribute["values"]
                        for counter_sig_value in counter_sig_values:
                            try:
                                counter_sig_info = cms.SignerInfo.load(
                                    counter_sig_value.native
                                )
                                cs_signed_attrs = counter_sig_info["signed_attrs"]
                                for cs_attr in cs_signed_attrs:
                                    cs_attr_type = cs_attr["type"].dotted
                                    if (
                                        cs_attr_type == "1.2.840.113549.1.9.5"
                                    ):  # signingTime
                                        signing_time = cs_attr["values"][0].native
                                        self.log.debug(
                                            "Signing Time (from countersignature):",
                                            signing_time,
                                        )
                                        break
                                if signing_time:
                                    break
                            except Exception as e:
                                self.log.error(
                                    f"Error processing countersignature: {e}"
                                )
                    if signing_time:
                        break
            if signing_time:
                break
        signer_serial_number = format(
            signer["sid"].native["serial_number"], "x"
        ).upper()
        grouped_serial_number = " ".join(
            [
                signer_serial_number[i : i + 2]
                for i in range(0, len(signer_serial_number), 2)
            ]
        )
        return PESigner(
            # this is to avoid duplicate _id with the Signer certificate used to sign as they are in the same ES index
            _id=format(signer["sid"].native["serial_number"], "x").upper()
            + signer["digest_algorithm"]["algorithm"].native,
            signer_serial_number=grouped_serial_number,
            signer_digest_algorithm=signer["digest_algorithm"]["algorithm"].native,
            signer_signature_algorithm=signer["signature_algorithm"][
                "algorithm"
            ].native,
            signing_time=(
                signing_time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") if signing_time else None
            ),
            # "countersigners": extract_countersigners(signer), # TODO: Implement this
        )

    def _extract_signature_info(self):
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)
        address = self.pe.OPTIONAL_HEADER.DATA_DIRECTORY[
            pefile.DIRECTORY_ENTRY["IMAGE_DIRECTORY_ENTRY_SECURITY"]
        ].VirtualAddress
        size = self.pe.OPTIONAL_HEADER.DATA_DIRECTORY[
            pefile.DIRECTORY_ENTRY["IMAGE_DIRECTORY_ENTRY_SECURITY"]
        ].Size

        addr_8 = address + 8
        signature_data = bytes(
            self.pe.write()[addr_8 : addr_8 + size]  # noqa E203
        )  # Ensure this is a bytes object
        if pem.detect(signature_data):
            signature_data = pem.unarmor(signature_data)

        content_info = cms.ContentInfo.load(signature_data)
        signed_data = content_info["content"]

        certificates = signed_data["certificates"]
        signers = signed_data["signer_infos"]

        certificates_list = []
        for cert in certificates:
            cert_info = self._extract_certificate_info(cert.chosen.dump())
            certificates_list.append(cert_info)

        signer_info_list = []
        for signer in signers:
            signer_info = self._extract_signer_info(signer)
            signer_info_list.append(signer_info)

        return certificates_list, signer_info_list

    def extract(self):
        try:
            self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)
            if self._is_signed():
                certificates_list, signers_list = self._extract_signature_info()
                # self.export_to_elastic([PECodeSigning(certificates_list, signers_list)])
                self.export_to_elastic(certificates_list, Tag.PE_CERTIFICATE.value)
                self.export_to_elastic(signers_list, Tag.PE_SIGNER.value)
            return True
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting PE Signature: {e}")
            return None