Omid Abari

61 papers A* 19A 3B 2Misc 14Journal 16Unranked 7
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Heyu Guo, Shanmu Wang, Ruichun Ma, Shiqi Jiang, Yasaman Ghasempour, Omid Abari, Baining Guo, Lili Qiu
2025 J jnl
ACM Trans. Sens. Networks
Ju Wang, Liqiong Chang, Shourya Aggarwal, Omid Abari, Srinivasan Keshav
2025 J jnl
CoRR
John Hateley, Sriram Narasimhan, Omid Abari
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Haofan Lu, Christopher Vattheuer, Baharan Mirzasoleiman, Omid Abari
2024 Misc conf
HotMobile
Tianxiang Li, Mohammad Hossein Mazaheri, Kalaivani Kamalakannan, Haofan Lu, Omid Abari
2024 A* conf
MobiCom
Tianxiang Li, Mohammad Hossein Mazaheri, Omid Abari
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Tianxiang Li, Haofan Lu, Omid Abari
2024 A* conf
ICML
Haofan Lu, Christopher Vattheuer, Baharan Mirzasoleiman, Omid Abari
2024 J jnl
IEEE Internet Things J.
Ali Abedi, Haofan Lu, Alex Chen, Charlie Liu, Omid Abari
2023 A* conf
SIGCOMM
Haofan Lu, Mohammad Mazaheri, Reza Rezvani, Omid Abari
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Christopher Vattheuer, Charlie Liu, Ali Abedi, Omid Abari
2023 A* conf
MobiCom
Mohammad Mazaheri, Rafael Ruiz, Domenico Giustiniano, Joerg Widmer, Omid Abari
2023 conf
IPSN
Justin Feng, Timothy Jacques, Omid Abari, Nader Sehatbakhsh
2023 conf
IPSN
Justin Feng, Timothy Jacques, Omid Abari, Nader Sehatbakhsh
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Ali Abedi, Haofan Lu, Alex Chen, Charlie Liu, Omid Abari
2023 Misc conf
NSDI
Kun Woo Cho, Mohammad Hossein Mazaheri, Jeremy Gummeson, Omid Abari, Kyle Jamieson
2022 Misc conf
HotMobile
Tianxiang Li, Mohammad Hossein Mazaheri, Omid Abari
2022 J jnl
GetMobile Mob. Comput. Commun.
Mohammad Mazaheri, Omid Abari
2022 J jnl
GetMobile Mob. Comput. Commun.
Farzan Dehbashi, Ali Abedi, Tim Brecht, Omid Abari
2022 Misc conf
HotNets
Tianxiang Li, Haofan Lu, Reza Rezvani, Ali Abedi, Omid Abari
2022 B conf
SECON
Ju Wang, Liqiong Chang, Omid Abari, Srinivasan Keshav
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Kun Woo Cho, Mohammad Hossein Mazaheri, Jeremy Gummeson, Omid Abari, Kyle Jamieson
2021 Misc conf
HotNets
Ali Abedi, Omid Abari
2021 J jnl
Comput. Commun.
Ali Abedi, Tim Brecht, Omid Abari
2021 A* conf
UIST
Antony Albert Raj Irudayaraj, Rishav Agarwal, Nikhita Joshi, Aakar Gupta, Omid Abari, Daniel Vogel
2021 A* conf
MobiCom
Farzan Dehbashi, Ali Abedi, Tim Brecht, Omid Abari
2021 A* conf
SIGCOMM
Mohammad Hossein Mazaheri, Alex Chen, Omid Abari
2021 Misc conf
HotMobile
Kun Woo Cho, Mohammad Hossein Mazaheri, Jeremy Gummeson, Omid Abari, Kyle Jamieson
2020 conf
BuildSys
David Radke, Omid Abari, Tim Brecht, Kate Larson
2020 conf
IoTDI
Liqiong Chang, Ju Wang, Omid Abari, Srinivasan Keshav
2020 Misc conf
HotNets
Mohammad Hossein Mazaheri, Alex Chen, Omid Abari
2020 A conf
MSWiM
Ali Abedi, Tim Brecht, Omid Abari
2020 Misc conf
SenSys
Ju Wang, Jianyan Li, Mohammad Hossein Mazaheri, Keiko Katsuragawa, Daniel Vogel, Omid Abari
2020 A conf
MobiSys
Ju Wang, Liqiong Chang, Shourya Aggarwal, Omid Abari, Srinivasan Keshav
2020 Misc conf
HotNets
Ali Abedi, Omid Abari
2020 A* conf
SIGCOMM
Ali Abedi, Farzan Dehbashi, Mohammad Hossein Mazaheri, Omid Abari, Tim Brecht
2019 J jnl
GetMobile Mob. Comput. Commun.
Mohammad Hossein Mazaheri, Ali Abedi, Soroush Ameli, Omid Abari
2019 A* conf
SIGCOMM
Mohammad Hossein Mazaheri, Soroush Ameli, Ali Abedi, Omid Abari
2019 A conf
MobiSys
Ju Wang, Liqiong Chang, Omid Abari, Srinivasan Keshav
2019 J jnl
GetMobile Mob. Comput. Commun.
Ju Wang, Omid Abari, Srinivasan Keshav
2019 conf
SIGCOMM Posters and Demos
Farzan Dehbashi, Nauman Ahmed, Manav Mehra, Ju Wang, Omid Abari
2019 A* conf
UIST
Keiko Katsuragawa, Ju Wang, Ziyang Shan, Ningshan Ouyang, Omid Abari, Daniel Vogel
2019 Misc conf
HotNets
Ali Abedi, Omid Abari, Tim Brecht
2018 A* conf
MobiCom
Ju Wang, Omid Abari, Srinivasan Keshav
2018 A* conf
SIGCOMM
Haitham Hassanieh, Omid Abari, Michael Rodriguez, Mohammed A. Abdelghany, Dina Katabi, Piotr Indyk
2018 A* conf
SIGCOMM
Deepak Vasisht, Guo Zhang, Omid Abari, Hsiao-Ming Lu, Jacob Flanz, Dina Katabi
2018 A* conf
MobiCom
Mohammad Hossein Mazaheri, Ali Abedi, Omid Abari
2018 Misc conf
HotNets
Ali Abedi, Mohammad Hossein Mazaheri, Omid Abari, Tim Brecht
2017 J jnl
CoRR
Haitham Hassanieh, Omid Abari, Michael Rodreguez, Mohammed A. Abdelghany, Dina Katabi, Piotr Indyk
2017 conf
mmNets
Omid Abari
2017 Misc conf
NSDI
Omid Abari, Dinesh Bharadia, Austin Duffield, Dina Katabi
2016 A* conf
MobiCom
Omid Abari, Haitham Hassanieh, Michael Rodreguiz, Dina Katabi
2016 Misc conf
HotNets
Omid Abari, Dinesh Bharadia, Austin Duffield, Dina Katabi
2016 Misc conf
HotNets
Omid Abari, Haitham Hassanieh, Michael Rodreguez, Dina Katabi
2016 J jnl
CoRR
Omid Abari, Hariharan Rahul, Dina Katabi
2015 A* conf
INFOCOM
Omid Abari, Hariharan Rahul, Dina Katabi, Mondira Pant
2015 A* conf
SIGCOMM
Omid Abari, Deepak Vasisht, Dina Katabi, Anantha P. Chandrakasan
2014 conf
ISSCC
Omid Abari, Ezzeldin Hamed, Haitham Hassanieh, Abhinav Agarwal, Dina Katabi, Anantha P. Chandrakasan, Vladimir Stojanovic
2014 A* conf
INFOCOM
Haitham Hassanieh, Lixin Shi, Omid Abari, Ezzeldin Hamed, Dina Katabi
2014 B conf
FPL
Abhinav Agarwal, Haitham Hassanieh, Omid Abari, Ezzeldin Hamed, Dina Katabi, Arvind
2014 A* conf
MobiCom
Omid Abari, Hariharan Rahul, Dina Katabi
redb/extractors/elf_extractor.py
← Index redb/extractors/elf_extractor.py python
import logging
from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod
import inspect

from elftools.elf.elffile import ELFFile
from elftools.common.exceptions import ELFError

from redb.extractors.extractor import Extractor

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)


@abstractmethod
class ELFExtractor(Extractor, metaclass=ABCMeta):

    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
        )
        # Store ELF object if provided, otherwise we'll create it per-operation for security
        self._provided_elf = elf
        self._elf_file_valid = None  # Cache validity check

    def _with_elf_file(self, operation):
        """Safely execute an operation with an ELF file using context manager.

        Args:
            operation: A callable that takes an ELFFile object and returns a result

        Returns:
            The result of the operation, or None if an error occurred
        """
        if self._provided_elf:
            try:
                return operation(self._provided_elf)
            except ELFError as e:
                if "String Table not found" in str(e):
                    self.log.warning(f"String table missing in ELF {self.hash.sha256}: {e}")
                    return None
                else:
                    self.log.error(f"ELF format error {self.hash.sha256} Full error: {e}")
                    return None
            except Exception as e:
                self.log.error(f"Error processing ELF file {self.hash.sha256} Full error: {e}")
                return None

        try:
            with open(self.filepath, 'rb') as f:
                elf = ELFFile(f)
                if not elf:
                    raise ELFError("Empty file?")
                return operation(elf)
        except ELFError as e:
            if "String Table not found" in str(e):
                self.log.warning(f"String table missing in ELF {self.hash.sha256}: {e}")
                return None
            else:
                self.log.error(f"ELF format error {self.hash.sha256} Full error: {e}")
                return None
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error reading ELF file {self.hash.sha256} Full error: {e}")
            return None

    def _is_elf_file(self):
        """Check if the file is a valid ELF binary."""
        if self._elf_file_valid is not None:
            return self._elf_file_valid

        def check_elf_validity(elf):
            # pyelftools ELFFile object existing means it's valid ELF
            # Just check that we can access the header
            header = elf.header
            return header is not None

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_elf_validity)
            self._elf_file_valid = bool(result)
            return self._elf_file_valid
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking ELF file: {e}")
            self._elf_file_valid = False
            return False

    def _is_64bit(self):
        """Check if the ELF binary is 64-bit."""
        def check_64bit(elf):
            return elf.header.get('e_ident', {}).get('EI_CLASS') == 'ELFCLASS64'

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_64bit)
            return bool(result)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking ELF bitness: {e}")
            return False

    def _is_stripped(self):
        """Check if the ELF binary is stripped (no symbol table)."""
        def check_stripped(elf):
            # Look for symbol table sections
            for section in elf.iter_sections():
                if section.name in ['.symtab', '.strtab']:
                    return False
            return True

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_stripped)
            return result if result is not None else True
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking if ELF is stripped: {e}")
            return True

    def _has_debug_info(self):
        """Check if the ELF binary contains debug information."""
        def check_debug_info(elf):
            # Look for debug sections
            debug_sections = ['.debug_info', '.debug_line', '.debug_str', '.debug_abbrev']
            for section in elf.iter_sections():
                if section.name in debug_sections:
                    return True
            return False

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_debug_info)
            return bool(result)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking debug info: {e}")
            return False

    def _get_architecture(self):
        """Get the architecture of the ELF binary."""
        def get_arch(elf):
            machine = elf.header.get('e_machine', 'EM_NONE')

            # Map common machine types to readable names
            arch_map = {
                'EM_386': 'x86',
                'EM_X86_64': 'x86_64',
                'EM_ARM': 'ARM',
                'EM_AARCH64': 'ARM64',
                'EM_MIPS': 'MIPS',
                'EM_PPC': 'PowerPC',
                'EM_PPC64': 'PowerPC64',
                'EM_SPARC': 'SPARC',
                'EM_RISCV': 'RISC-V'
            }

            return arch_map.get(machine, machine)

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(get_arch)
            return result if result is not None else "unknown"
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting architecture: {e}")
            return "unknown"

    def _get_endianness(self):
        """Get the endianness of the ELF binary."""
        def get_endian(elf):
            data_encoding = elf.header.get('e_ident', {}).get('EI_DATA')
            if data_encoding == 'ELFDATA2LSB':
                return "little"
            elif data_encoding == 'ELFDATA2MSB':
                return "big"
            return "unknown"

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(get_endian)
            return result if result is not None else "unknown"
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting endianness: {e}")
            return "unknown"

    def _get_file_type(self):
        """Get the file type of the ELF binary."""
        def get_file_type(elf):
            etype = elf.header.get('e_type', 'ET_NONE')

            # Map file types to readable names
            type_map = {
                'ET_NONE': 'none',
                'ET_REL': 'relocatable',
                'ET_EXEC': 'executable',
                'ET_DYN': 'shared_object',
                'ET_CORE': 'core_dump'
            }

            return type_map.get(etype, etype)

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(get_file_type)
            return result if result is not None else "unknown"
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting file type: {e}")
            return "unknown"

    def _is_pie(self):
        """Check if the ELF binary is position-independent executable."""
        def check_pie(elf):
            # PIE binaries are typically ET_DYN type
            etype = elf.header.get('e_type', 'ET_NONE')
            if etype == 'ET_DYN':
                # Check if it has an entry point (executable) vs library
                entry_point = elf.header.get('e_entry', 0)
                return entry_point > 0
            return False

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_pie)
            return bool(result)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking PIE: {e}")
            return False

    def _has_stack_protection(self):
        """Check if the binary has stack protection (canaries)."""
        def check_stack_protection(elf):
            # Look for stack protection symbols
            stack_symbols = ['__stack_chk_fail', '__stack_chk_guard']

            for section in elf.iter_sections():
                if hasattr(section, 'iter_symbols'):
                    for symbol in section.iter_symbols():
                        if symbol.name in stack_symbols:
                            return True
            return False

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_stack_protection)
            return bool(result)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking stack protection: {e}")
            return False

    def _has_nx_bit(self):
        """Check if the binary has NX bit (non-executable stack)."""
        def check_nx_bit(elf):
            # Look for GNU_STACK segment
            for segment in elf.iter_segments():
                if segment.header.get('p_type') == 'PT_GNU_STACK':
                    flags = segment.header.get('p_flags', 0)
                    # Check if execute flag is NOT set (NX enabled)
                    return not (flags & 0x1)  # PF_X = 0x1
            return False

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_nx_bit)
            return bool(result)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking NX bit: {e}")
            return False

    def _has_relro(self):
        """Check if the binary has RELRO (Relocation Read-Only)."""
        def check_relro(elf):
            # Look for GNU_RELRO segment
            for segment in elf.iter_segments():
                if segment.header.get('p_type') == 'PT_GNU_RELRO':
                    return True
            return False

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_relro)
            return bool(result)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking RELRO: {e}")
            return False

    def _get_build_id(self):
        """Extract build ID from notes section."""
        def get_build_id(elf):
            # Look for build ID in notes sections
            for section in elf.iter_sections():
                if section.name == '.note.gnu.build-id':
                    for note in section.iter_notes():
                        if note['n_type'] == 'NT_GNU_BUILD_ID':
                            # Convert bytes to hex string
                            build_id = note['n_desc']
                            if isinstance(build_id, bytes):
                                return build_id.hex()
                            return str(build_id)
            return None

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(get_build_id)
            return result
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting build ID: {e}")
            return None

    def _count_sections(self):
        """Count the number of sections in the ELF file."""
        def count_sections(elf):
            return elf.header.get('e_shnum', 0)

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(count_sections)
            return result if result is not None else 0
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error counting sections: {e}")
            return 0

    def _count_segments(self):
        """Count the number of segments (program headers) in the ELF file."""
        def count_segments(elf):
            return elf.header.get('e_phnum', 0)

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(count_segments)
            return result if result is not None else 0
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error counting segments: {e}")
            return 0

    def _count_symbols(self):
        """Count the total number of symbols in symbol tables."""
        def count_symbols(elf):
            symbol_count = 0
            for section in elf.iter_sections():
                if hasattr(section, 'iter_symbols'):
                    symbol_count += section.num_symbols()
            return symbol_count

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(count_symbols)
            return result if result is not None else 0
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error counting symbols: {e}")
            return 0

    def _get_dependencies(self):
        """Get list of dynamic dependencies."""
        def get_dependencies(elf):
            dependencies = []
            dynamic_section = elf.get_section_by_name('.dynamic')
            if dynamic_section:
                for tag in dynamic_section.iter_tags():
                    if tag.entry.d_tag == 'DT_NEEDED':
                        dependencies.append(tag.needed)
            return dependencies

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(get_dependencies)
            return result if result is not None else []
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting dependencies: {e}")
            return []