Rachel Gold

27 papers Misc 15Journal 8Unranked 4
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2023 J jnl
J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc.
Rose Gunn, Maura Pisciotta, Rachel Gold, Arwen Bunce, Katie Dambrun, Erika K. Cottrell, Danielle Hessler-Jones, Mary Middendorf, Miguel Alvarez, Lydia Giles, Laura M. Gottlieb
2022 Misc conf
AMIA
Jenny Hauschildt, Rachel Gold, Kristin Lyon-Scott, Christina Sheppler, Annie Larson, Carmit McMullen, David Boston, Patrick J. O'Connor, JoAnn M. Sperl-Hillen
2021 Misc conf
AMIA
Rachel Gold, Patrick J. O'Connor, Annie Larson, JoAnn M. Sperl-Hillen, Dave Boston, A. Lauren Crain, Christina Sheppler, Mary Middendorf, Ann Romer, John Heintzman, Deepika Appana
2020 J jnl
J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc.
Deborah J. Cohen, Tamar Wyte-Lake, David A. Dorr, Rachel Gold, Richard J. Holden, Richelle J. Koopman, Joshua Colasurdo, Nathaniel Warren
2019 Misc conf
AMIA
Miguel Marino, Jorge Kaufmann, David Ezekiel-Herrera, Dagan Wright, Erika Cottrell, Rachel Gold
2019 Misc conf
AMIA
Rachel Gold, Amber Haley, Lisa A. Cooper, Laura M. Gottlieb
2018 Misc conf
AMIA
Rachel Gold, Erika Cottrell, Stuart Cowburn, Arwen E. Bunce, Katie Dambrun, Mary Middendorf, Marla Dearing, Ned Mossman, Jason L. Scott, Nadia Yosuf
2018 Misc conf
AMIA
Mary Middendorf, Marla Dearing, Rachel Gold, JoAnn M. Sperl-Hillen, Patrick J. O'Connor, Erik Geissal, John Heintzman, Stuart Cowburn, Arwen E. Bunce, Deepika Appana, Rashmi Sharma, M. J. Dunne
2018 Misc conf
AMIA
Khaya D. Clark, David A. Dorr, Raja Arul Cholan, Rachel Gold, Richard Holden, Richelle J. Koopman, Bhavaya Sachdeva, Nate Warren, Erik Geissal, Deborah J. Cohen
2018 Misc conf
AMIA
Michael Cantor, Rachel Gold, Laura M. Gottlieb, Hadi Kharrazi, Theresa Cullen
2017 J jnl
J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc.
Andrew H. Felcher, Rachel Gold, David M. Mosen, Ashley B. Stoneburner
2017 Misc conf
AMIA
Michael Cantor, Hossein Estiri, Rachel Gold, Theresa Cullen
2016 J jnl
J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc.
Andrew W. Bazemore, Erika Cottrell, Rachel Gold, Lauren S. Hughes, Robert L. Phillips, Heather Angier, Timothy E. Burdick, Mark A. Carrozza, Jennifer E. DeVoe
2016 conf
CRI
Andrew H. Felcher, David M. Mosen, Rachel Gold, Ashley B. Stoneburner, Jill Pope
2016 conf
CRI
Arwen E. Bunce, Rachel Gold, James V. Davis, MaryBeth Mercer, Victoria Jaworski, Christine Nelson, Celine Hollombe
2015 Misc conf
AMIA
Steffani R. Bailey, Megan J. Hoopes, Heather Angier, Rachel Gold, John Heintzman, Miguel Marino, Jean P. O'Malley, Jennifer E. DeVoe
2015 Misc conf
AMIA
Brigit A. Hatch, Carrie Tillotson, Heather Angier, Miguel Marino, Megan J. Hoopes, Nathalie Huguet, Rachel Gold, Jennifer E. DeVoe
2015 Misc conf
AMIA
Miguel Marino, John Heintzman, Eve Dexter, Stuart Cowburn, Jean P. O'Malley, Steffani R. Bailey, Rachel Gold, Jennifer E. DeVoe
2015 J jnl
J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc.
John Heintzman, Miguel Marino, Megan J. Hoopes, Steffani R. Bailey, Rachel Gold, Jean P. O'Malley, Heather Angier, Christine Nelson, Erika Cottrell, Jennifer E. DeVoe
2014 J jnl
J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc.
John Heintzman, Steffani R. Bailey, Megan J. Hoopes, Thuy Le, Rachel Gold, Jean P. O'Malley, Stuart Cowburn, Miguel Marino, Alexander H. Krist, Jennifer E. DeVoe
2014 J jnl
J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc.
Jennifer E. DeVoe, Rachel Gold, Erika Cottrell, Vance Bauer, Andrew Brickman, Jon Puro, Christine Nelson, Kenneth H. Mayer, Abigail Sears, Timothy E. Burdick, Jonathan Merrell, Paul Matthews, Scott Fields
2014 Misc conf
AMIA
Rachel Gold, Jon Puro, Jennifer E. DeVoe, Christine Nelson, Arwen Bunce, Celine Hollombe, James V. Davis, Stuart Cowburn, John Muench, Christian N. Hill, Meena Mital, Anne M. Turner
2013 Misc conf
AMIA
Jennifer E. DeVoe, Heather Angier, Rachel Gold
2013 Misc conf
AMIA
Heather Angier, Rachel Gold, Courtney Crawford, Jean P. O'Malley, Jennifer E. DeVoe
2006 conf
Eurographics (Education Papers)
Yolanda A. Rankin, Rachel Gold, Bruce Gooch
2006 J jnl
Future Gener. Comput. Syst.
Joe Mambretti, Rachel Gold, Fei Yeh, Jim Hao Chen
2006 conf
SIGGRAPH Educators Program
Yolanda A. Rankin, Rachel Gold, Bruce Gooch
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"