Rahma Fourati

30 papers B 5C 4Journal 15Unranked 6
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 conf
ICAART (4)
Adel Benali, Rahma Fourati, Imen Jdey
2025 B conf
IJCNN
Jihene Tmamna, Rahma Fourati, Hela Ltifi
2025 B conf
IJCNN
Rahma Fourati
2025 conf
RTSI
Achref Jebli, Rahma Fourati, Fadoua Drira
2024 J jnl
Appl. Soft Comput.
Jihene Tmamna, Emna Ben Ayed, Rahma Fourati, Amir Hussain, Mounir Ben Ayed
2024 conf
ICCCI (CCIS Volume 2)
Adel Hameed, Rahma Fourati, Boudour Ammar, Javier J. Sánchez Medina, Hela Ltifi
2024 J jnl
Cogn. Comput.
Najwa Kouka, Rahma Fourati, Asma Baghdadi, Patrick Siarry, Mohamed Adel Alimi
2024 J jnl
Neurocomputing
Jihene Tmamna, Rahma Fourati, Emna Ben Ayed, Leandro A. Passos, João P. Papa, Mounir Ben Ayed, Amir Hussain
2024 J jnl
Inf. Sci.
Najwa Kouka, Rahma Fourati, Raja Fdhila, Amir Hussain, Adel M. Alimi
2024 J jnl
Multim. Tools Appl.
Zeineb Fki, Boudour Ammar, Rahma Fourati, Hela Fendri, Amir Hussain, Mounir Ben Ayed
2024 J jnl
Expert Syst. J. Knowl. Eng.
Jihene Tmamna, Emna Ben Ayed, Rahma Fourati, Amir Hussain, Mounir Ben Ayed
2024 conf
ICCCI (CCIS Volume 1)
Jihene Tmamna, Rahma Fourati, Hela Ltifi
2024 J jnl
Cogn. Comput.
Jihene Tmamna, Emna Ben Ayed, Rahma Fourati, Mandar Gogate, Tughrul Arslan, Amir Hussain, Mounir Ben Ayed
2024 conf
ICCCI (CCIS Volume 2)
Adel Hameed, Rahma Fourati, Boudour Ammar, Javier Sanchez-Medina, Hela Ltifi
2024 J jnl
Biomed. Signal Process. Control.
Adel Hameed, Rahma Fourati, Boudour Ammar, Amel Ksibi, Ala Saleh D. Alluhaidan, Mounir Ben Ayed, Hussain Kareem Khleaf
2023 C conf
ISCC
Imene Ouali, Rahma Fourati, Mohamed Ben Halima, Ali Wali
2023 J jnl
J. Ambient Intell. Humaniz. Comput.
Asma Baghdadi, Rahma Fourati, Yassine Aribi, Sameh S. Daoud, Mariem Dammak, Chokri Mhiri, Habib Chabchoub, Patrick Siarry, Adel M. Alimi
2023 J jnl
Inf. Sci.
Najwa Kouka, Fatma BenSaid, Raja Fdhila, Rahma Fourati, Amir Hussain, Adel M. Alimi
2023 C conf
ISCC
Jihene Tmamna, Emna Ben Ayed, Rahma Fourati, Mounir Ben Ayed
2023 C conf
ISCC
Syrine Kallel, Rahma Fourati
2023 J jnl
Biomed. Signal Process. Control.
Najwa Kouka, Rahma Fourati, Raja Fdhila, Patrick Siarry, Adel M. Alimi
2023 B conf
ICCCI
Nesrine Tarhouni, Rahma Fourati, Maha Charfeddine, Chokri Ben Amar
2022 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Affect. Comput.
Rahma Fourati, Boudour Ammar, Javier J. Sánchez Medina, Adel M. Alimi
2021 J jnl
J. Ambient Intell. Humaniz. Comput.
Asma Baghdadi, Yassine Aribi, Rahma Fourati, Najla Halouani, Patrick Siarry, Adel M. Alimi
2020 B conf
IJCNN
Rahma Fourati, Boudour Ammar, Yaochu Jin, Adel M. Alimi
2020 B conf
IJCNN
Asma Baghdadi, Rahma Fourati, Yassine Aribi, Patrick Siarry, Adel M. Alimi
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Asma Baghdadi, Yassine Aribi, Rahma Fourati, Najla Halouani, Patrick Siarry, Adel M. Alimi
2018 J jnl
CoRR
Rahma Fourati, Boudour Ammar, Javier J. Sánchez Medina, Adel M. Alimi
2017 conf
ICONIP (2)
Rahma Fourati, Boudour Ammar, Chaouki Aouiti, Javier J. Sánchez Medina, Adel M. Alimi
2015 C conf
ISDA
Rahma Fourati, Chaouki Aouiti, Adel M. Alimi
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"