Omid Esrafilian

46 papers B 6Misc 3Journal 23Unranked 13
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Babacar Toure, Dimitrios Tsilimantos, Omid Esrafilian, Marios Kountouris
2025 conf
WiNTECH
Mohsen Ahadi, Adeel Malik, Omid Esrafilian, Florian Kaltenberger, Cedric Thienot
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Mohsen Ahadi, Adeel Malik, Omid Esrafilian, Florian Kaltenberger, Cedric Thienot
2025 conf
ICC Workshops
Omid Esrafilian, Rakesh Mundlamuri, Florian Kaltenberger, Raymond Knopp, David Gesbert
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Omid Esrafilian, Rakesh Mundlamuri, Florian Kaltenberger, Raymond Knopp, David Gesbert
2025 B conf
WCNC
Babacar Toure, Dimitrios Tsilimantos, Theodoros Giannakas, Omid Esrafilian, Marios Kountouris
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Mohsen Ahadi, Omid Esrafilian, Florian Kaltenberger, Adeel Malik
2024 J jnl
IEEE Commun. Lett.
Mohamad Mestoukirdi, Omid Esrafilian, David Gesbert, Qianrui Li, Nicolas Gresset
2024 conf
GLOBECOM (Workshops)
Omid Esrafilian, Mohsen Ahadi, Florian Kaltenberger, David Gesbert
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Omid Esrafilian, Mohsen Ahadi, Florian Kaltenberger, David Gesbert
2024 J jnl
IEEE Internet Things J.
Mohammadsaleh Nikooroo, Omid Esrafilian, Zdenek Becvar, David Gesbert
2023 conf
ICC
Mohammadsaleh Nikooroo, Zdenek Becvar, Omid Esrafilian, David Gesbert
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Mohammadsaleh Nikooroo, Zdenek Becvar, Omid Esrafilian, David Gesbert
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Rakesh Mundlamuri, Omid Esrafilian, Rajeev Gangula, Rohan Kharade, Cédric Roux, Florian Kaltenberger, Raymond Knopp, David Gesbert
2023 Misc conf
ACSSC
Rajeev Gangula, Omid Esrafilian, David Gesbert, Tommaso Melodia
2023 conf
GLOBECOM (Workshops)
Jichao Chen, Omid Esrafilian, Harald Bayerlein, David Gesbert, Marco Caccamo
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Jichao Chen, Omid Esrafilian, Harald Bayerlein, David Gesbert, Marco Caccamo
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Mohamad Mestoukirdi, Omid Esrafilian, David Gesbert, Qianrui Li, Nicolas Gresset
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Omid Esrafilian, Rajeev Gangula, David Gesbert
2023 conf
ICC Workshops
Omid Esrafilian, Rajeev Gangula, David Gesbert
2023 J jnl
IEEE Wirel. Commun.
David Gesbert, Omid Esrafilian, Junting Chen, Rajeev Gangula, Urbashi Mitra
2022 B conf
PIMRC
Mohammadsaleh Nikooroo, Zdenek Becvar, Omid Esrafilian, David Gesbert
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Mohammadsaleh Nikooroo, Zdenek Becvar, Omid Esrafilian, David Gesbert
2022 B conf
GLOBECOM
Mohammadsaleh Nikooroo, Omid Esrafilian, Zdenek Becvar, David Gesbert
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Mohammadsaleh Nikooroo, Omid Esrafilian, Zdenek Becvar, David Gesbert
2022 B conf
GLOBECOM
Mohamad Mestoukirdi, Omid Esrafilian, David Gesbert, Qianrui Li
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Mohamad Mestoukirdi, Omid Esrafilian, David Gesbert, Qianrui Li
2022 J jnl
CoRR
David Gesbert, Omid Esrafilian, Junting Chen, Rajeev Gangula, Urbashi Mitra
2022 conf
ICC Workshops
Omid Esrafilian, Rajeev Gangula, David Gesbert
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Omid Esrafilian, Rajeev Gangula, David Gesbert
2021 conf
ICC
Omid Esrafilian, Rajeev Gangula, David Gesbert
2021 B conf
GLOBECOM
Omid Esrafilian, Harald Bayerlein, David Gesbert
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Omid Esrafilian, Harald Bayerlein, David Gesbert
2021 J jnl
IEEE Internet Things J.
Omid Esrafilian, Rajeev Gangula, David Gesbert
2020 conf
ICC
Omid Esrafilian, Rajeev Gangula, David Gesbert
2020 conf
INFOCOM Workshops
Omid Esrafilian, Rajeev Gangula, David Gesbert
2020
Omid Esrafilian
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Omid Esrafilian, Rajeev Gangula, David Gesbert
2019 J jnl
IEEE Internet Things J.
Omid Esrafilian, Rajeev Gangula, David Gesbert
2018 conf
SPAWC
Rajeev Gangula, Omid Esrafilian, David Gesbert, Cédric Roux, Florian Kaltenberger, Raymond Knopp
2018 J jnl
CoRR
Omid Esrafilian, Rajeev Gangula, David Gesbert
2018 conf
WSA
Omid Esrafilian, David Gesbert
2018 Misc conf
ACSSC
Omid Esrafilian, Rajeev Gangula, David Gesbert
2017 B conf
GLOBECOM
Omid Esrafilian, David Gesbert
2017 conf
GLOBECOM Workshops
Junting Chen, Omid Esrafilian, David Gesbert, Urbashi Mitra
2017 Misc conf
ACSSC
Rajeev Gangula, Paul de Kerret, Omid Esrafilian, David Gesbert
redb/extractors/elf_extractors/elf_sections.py
← Index redb/extractors/elf_extractors/elf_sections.py python
import inspect
import hashlib
import math
from collections import Counter
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 ELFSection


class ELFSectionExtractor(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_sections = []
        self.elastic_index = self.index_prefix + "-elf_sections"
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

    def _is_empty_result(self, extracted_data) -> bool:
        """
        Override: Empty sections is an ERROR, not a valid empty case.
        A valid ELF file must have sections (at minimum a null section).
        """
        # Always return False - empty sections should be treated as an error
        return False

    def _calculate_entropy(self, data: bytes) -> float:
        """Calculate Shannon entropy of data."""
        if not data:
            return 0.0

        try:
            # Count frequency of each byte
            byte_counts = Counter(data)
            data_len = len(data)

            # Calculate entropy
            entropy = 0.0
            for count in byte_counts.values():
                if count > 0:
                    frequency = count / data_len
                    entropy -= frequency * math.log2(frequency)

            return entropy
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error calculating entropy: {e}")
            return 0.0

    def _map_section_type(self, sh_type_str: str) -> int:
        """Map section type string to enum value."""
        type_map = {
            'SHT_NULL': 0,
            'SHT_PROGBITS': 1,
            'SHT_SYMTAB': 2,
            'SHT_STRTAB': 3,
            'SHT_RELA': 4,
            'SHT_HASH': 5,
            'SHT_DYNAMIC': 6,
            'SHT_NOTE': 7,
            'SHT_NOBITS': 8,
            'SHT_REL': 9,
            'SHT_DYNSYM': 11
        }
        return type_map.get(sh_type_str, 0)

    def _decode_section_flags(self, flags: int) -> List[str]:
        """Decode section flags to human-readable strings."""
        flag_strings = []

        # Common ELF section flags
        if flags & 0x1:  # SHF_WRITE
            flag_strings.append('WRITE')
        if flags & 0x2:  # SHF_ALLOC
            flag_strings.append('ALLOC')
        if flags & 0x4:  # SHF_EXECINSTR
            flag_strings.append('EXECINSTR')
        if flags & 0x10:  # SHF_MERGE
            flag_strings.append('MERGE')
        if flags & 0x20:  # SHF_STRINGS
            flag_strings.append('STRINGS')
        if flags & 0x40:  # SHF_INFO_LINK
            flag_strings.append('INFO_LINK')
        if flags & 0x80:  # SHF_LINK_ORDER
            flag_strings.append('LINK_ORDER')
        if flags & 0x100:  # SHF_OS_NONCONFORMING
            flag_strings.append('OS_NONCONFORMING')
        if flags & 0x200:  # SHF_GROUP
            flag_strings.append('GROUP')
        if flags & 0x400:  # SHF_TLS
            flag_strings.append('TLS')

        return flag_strings if flag_strings else ['NONE']

    def _extract_section_data(self, section) -> Dict:
        """Extract data from a single section."""
        try:
            header = section.header

            # Get section name (handle empty names)
            section_name = section.name if section.name else f"<unnamed_{section.header.get('sh_name', 0)}>"

            # Get section type and map to enum
            sh_type_str = header.get('sh_type', 'SHT_NULL')
            section_type_enum = self._map_section_type(sh_type_str)
            section_type_str = sh_type_str.replace('SHT_', '') if sh_type_str.startswith('SHT_') else sh_type_str

            # Get section properties
            section_flags = header.get('sh_flags', 0)
            section_flags_str = self._decode_section_flags(section_flags)
            section_addr = header.get('sh_addr', 0)
            section_offset = header.get('sh_offset', 0)
            section_size = header.get('sh_size', 0)
            section_link = header.get('sh_link', 0)
            section_info = header.get('sh_info', 0)
            section_addralign = header.get('sh_addralign', 0)
            section_entsize = header.get('sh_entsize', 0)

            # Calculate entropy and hashes for section data
            section_entropy = 0.0
            section_sha256 = ""
            section_md5 = ""

            try:
                if section_size > 0 and section_type_str != 'NOBITS':
                    section_data = section.data()
                    if section_data:
                        # Calculate entropy
                        section_entropy = self._calculate_entropy(section_data)

                        # Calculate hashes
                        section_sha256 = hashlib.sha256(section_data).hexdigest()
                        section_md5 = hashlib.md5(section_data).hexdigest()
            except Exception as e:
                self.log.warning(f"Could not read section '{section_name}' data: {e}")
                section_entropy = 0.0
                section_sha256 = ""
                section_md5 = ""

            return ELFSection(
                section_name=section_name,
                section_type=section_type_enum,
                section_type_str=section_type_str,
                section_flags=section_flags,
                section_flags_str=section_flags_str,
                section_addr=section_addr,
                section_offset=section_offset,
                section_size=section_size,
                section_link=section_link,
                section_info=section_info,
                section_addralign=section_addralign,
                section_entsize=section_entsize,
                section_entropy=section_entropy,
                section_sha256=section_sha256,
                section_md5=section_md5
            )

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

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

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

            def extract_data(elf):
                sections_data = []

                # Iterate through all sections with per-section error handling
                for section_index, section in enumerate(elf.iter_sections()):
                    try:
                        section_data = self._extract_section_data(section)
                        if section_data:
                            sections_data.append(section_data)
                        else:
                            self.log.warning(f"Failed to extract data for section {section_index}")
                    except Exception as e:
                        self.log.warning(f"Error processing section {section_index}: {e}")
                        # Continue processing other sections

                return sections_data

            if not self._is_elf_file():
                return None

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

            self.elf_sections = result
            return self.elf_sections

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting ELF sections {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_sections
        elif exporter_type == "ClickHouseExporter":
            try:
                if not self.elf_sections:
                    return None

                # Prepare data arrays for all sections
                data = []
                current_time = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
                for section in self.elf_sections:
                    row = [
                        self.sha256,
                        self.md5,
                        self.sha1,
                        section.section_name,
                        section.section_type,
                        section.section_type_str,
                        section.section_flags,
                        section.section_flags_str,
                        section.section_addr,
                        section.section_offset,
                        section.section_size,
                        section.section_link,
                        section.section_info,
                        section.section_addralign,
                        section.section_entsize,
                        section.section_entropy,
                        section.section_sha256,
                        section.section_md5,
                        current_time
                    ]
                    data.append(row)

                column_names = [
                    'sha256', 'md5', 'sha1',
                    'section_name', 'section_type', 'section_type_str',
                    'section_flags', 'section_flags_str',
                    'section_addr', 'section_offset', 'section_size',
                    'section_link', 'section_info', 'section_addralign', 'section_entsize',
                    'section_entropy', 'section_sha256', 'section_md5',
                    'analysis_date'
                ]

                column_type_names = [
                    'FixedString(64)', 'FixedString(32)', 'FixedString(40)',
                    'LowCardinality(String)',
                    "Enum8('NULL'=0, 'PROGBITS'=1, 'SYMTAB'=2, 'STRTAB'=3, 'RELA'=4, 'HASH'=5, 'DYNAMIC'=6, 'NOTE'=7, 'NOBITS'=8, 'REL'=9, 'DYNSYM'=11)",
                    'LowCardinality(String)',
                    'UInt64',
                    'Array(LowCardinality(String))',
                    'UInt64', 'UInt64', 'UInt64',
                    'UInt32', 'UInt32', 'UInt64', 'UInt64',
                    'Float64',
                    'FixedString(64)', 'FixedString(32)',
                    'DateTime64(3, \'UTC\')'
                ]

                if not data:
                    return None

                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_sections"