Ralf-Peter Braun

27 papers A* 2Journal 12Unranked 13
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 conf
ECOC
Thomas Rieser, Matheus Ribeiro Sena, Shane Andrewski, Niccolo Bigagli, Mael Flament, Ralf-Peter Braun, Michaela Ritter, Mehdi Namazi, Marc Geitz
2025 J jnl
J. Opt. Commun. Netw.
Matheus Ribeiro Sena, Abdelrahmane Moawad, Robert Emmerich, Behnam Shariati, Marc Geitz, Ralf-Peter Braun, Johannes K. Fischer, Ronald Freund
2025 conf
OFC
Matheus Ribeiro Sena, Mael Flament, Mehdi Namazi, Shane Andrewski, Gabriel Portmann, Ralf-Peter Braun, Marwa Youssef-Sayed, Ronny Döring, Michaela Ritter, Oliver Holschke, Marc Geitz
2025 J jnl
J. Opt. Commun. Netw.
Matheus Ribeiro Sena, Mael Flament, Shane Andrewski, Ioannis Caltzidis, Niccolo Bigagli, Thomas Rieser, Gabriel Bello Portmann, Rourke Sekelsky, Ralf-Peter Braun, Alexander N. Craddock, Maximilian Schulz, Klaus D. Jons, Michaela Ritter, Marc Geitz, Oliver Holschke, Mehdi Namazi
2024 J jnl
Entropy
Max Brauer, Rafael J. Vicente, Jaime S. Buruaga, Rubén B. Méndez, Ralf-Peter Braun, Marc Geitz, Piotr Rydlichowski, Hans H. Brunner, Chi-Hang Fred Fung, Momtchil Peev, Antonio Pastor, Diego R. López, Vicente Martín, Juan Pedro Brito
2024 conf
WF-IoT
Marc Geitz, Ming Yin, Matheus Ribeiro Sena, Michaela Ritter, Ronny Döring, Oliver Holschke, Ralf-Peter Braun, Leonardo A. Gonzalez Z., Riccardo Bassoli, Frank H. P. Fitzek, Ahmad Rahimi, Caspar Hopfmann
2023 conf
ICSCC
Ralf-Peter Braun, Michaela Ritter, Ronny Döring, Marc Geitz
2023 conf
OFC
Hannes Hübel, Florian Kutschera, Christoph Pacher, Martin Achleitner, Werner Strasser, Francesco Vedovato, Edoardo Rossi, Francesco Picciariello, Giuseppe Vallone, Paolo Villoresi, Luca Calderaro, Vicente Martín, Juan Pedro Brito, Laura Ortíz, Diego R. López, Antonio Pastor Perales, Marc Geitz, Ralf-Peter Braun, Piotr Rydlichowski
2023 conf
ICFSP
Marc Geitz, Ronny Döring, Ralf-Peter Braun
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Max Brauer, Rafael J. Vicente, Jaime S. Buruaga, Rubén B. Mendez, Ralf-Peter Braun, Marc Geitz, Piotr Rydlichowski, Hans H. Brunner, Chi-Hang Fred Fung, Momtchil Peev, Antonio Pastor, Diego R. López, Vicente Martín, Juan Pedro Brito
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Behnam Shariati, Luis Velasco, Jose-Juan Pedreno-Manresa, Annika Dochhan, Ramon Casellas, Abubakar Siddique Muqaddas, Óscar González de Dios, Lourdes Luque Canto, Bodo Lent, Jorge E. López de Vergara, Sergio López-Buedo, Francisco Javier Moreno, Pablo Pavón, Marc Ruiz, Sai Kireet Patri, Alessio Giorgetti, Filippo Cugini, Andrea Sgambelluri, Reza Nejabati, Dimitra Simeonidou, Ralf-Peter Braun, Achim Autenrieth, Jörg-Peter Elbers, Johannes K. Fischer, Ronald Freund
2022 J jnl
JOCN
Behnam Shariati, Luis Velasco, Jose-Juan Pedreno-Manresa, Annika Dochhan, Ramon Casellas, Abubakar Siddique Muqaddas, Óscar González de Dios, Lourdes Luque Canto, Bodo Lent, Jorge E. López de Vergara, Sergio López-Buedo, Francisco-Javier Moreno-Muro, Pablo Pavón, Marc Ruiz, Sai Kireet Patri, Alessio Giorgetti, Filippo Cugini, Andrea Sgambelluri, Reza Nejabati, Dimitra Simeonidou, Ralf-Peter Braun, Achim Autenrieth, Jörg-Peter Elbers, Johannes K. Fischer, Ronald Freund
2021 conf
OFC
Behnam Shariati, Jose-Juan Pedreno-Manresa, Annika Dochhan, Abubakar Siddique Muqaddas, Ramon Casellas, Óscar González de Dios, Lourdes Luque Canto, Bodo Lent, Jorge E. López de Vergara, Sergio López-Buedo, Francisco Javier Moreno, Pablo Pavón, Luis Velasco, Sai Kireet Patri, Alessio Giorgetti, Filippo Cugini, Andrea Sgambelluri, Reza Nejabati, Dimitra Simeonidou, Ralf-Peter Braun, Achim Autenrieth, Jörg-Peter Elbers, Johannes Karl Fischer, Ronald Freund
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Behnam Shariati, Jose-Juan Pedreno-Manresa, Annika Dochhan, Abubakar Siddique Muqaddas, Ramon Casellas, Óscar González de Dios, Lourdes Luque Canto, Bodo Lent, Jorge E. López de Vergara, Sergio López-Buedo, Francisco Javier Moreno, Pablo Pavón, Luis Velasco, Sai Kireet Patri, Alessio Giorgetti, Filippo Cugini, Andrea Sgambelluri, Reza Nejabati, Dimitra Simeonidou, Ralf-Peter Braun, Achim Autenrieth, Jörg-Peter Elbers, Johannes Karl Fischer, Ronald Freund
2021 conf
OFC
Dominic Schulz, Julian Hohmann, Peter Hellwig, Christoph Kottke, Ronald Freund, Volker Jungnickel, Ralf-Peter Braun, Frank Geilhardt
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Dominic Schulz, Julian Hohmann, Peter Hellwig, Christoph Kottke, Ronald Freund, Volker Jungnickel, Ralf-Peter Braun, Frank Geilhardt
2021 conf
ECOC
Fabio Pittalà, Ralf-Peter Braun, Georg Böcherer, Patrick Schulte, Maximilian Schaedler, Stefano Bettelli, Stefano Calabrò, Maxim Kuschnerov, Andreas Gladisch, Fritz-Joachim Westphal, Changsong Xie, Rongfu Chen, Qibing Wang, Bofang Zheng
2021 conf
OFC
Emanuele Virgillito, Ralf-Peter Braun, Dirk Breuer, Andreas Gladisch, Vittorio Curri, Gert Grammel
2019 conf
OFC
Florian Azendorf, Annika Dochhan, Ralf-Peter Braun, Michael Eiselt
2018 conf
ICTON
Johannes K. Fischer, Mattia Cantono, Vittorio Curri, Ralf-Peter Braun, Nelson Costa, João Pedro, Erwan Pincemin, Philippe Doare, Claude Le Bouëtté, Antonio Napoli
2015 J jnl
JOCN
Sergejs Makovejs, Carsten Behrens, Ralf-Peter Braun, Sergey Ten, Christopher Towery, Ioannis Roudas, Konstantin Koreshkov, Torsten Nath, Andreas Gladisch
2015 A* conf
INFOCOM
Márton Csernai, Florin Ciucu, Ralf-Peter Braun, András Gulyás
2014 A* conf
SIGCOMM
Steffen Gebert, David Hock, Thomas Zinner, Phuoc Tran-Gia, Marco Hoffmann, Michael Jarschel, Ernst-Dieter Schmidt, Ralf-Peter Braun, Christian Banse, Andreas Köpsel
2014 conf
OFC
Márton Csernai, Florin Ciucu, Ralf-Peter Braun, András Gulyás
2010 J jnl
IEEE Commun. Mag.
Josef Roese, Ralf-Peter Braun, Masahito Tomizawa, Osamu Ishida
2006 J jnl
Proc. IEEE
Andreas Gladisch, Ralf-Peter Braun, Dirk Breuer, Armin Ehrhardt, Hans-Martin Foisel, Monika Jaeger, Ralph Leppla, Malte Schneiders, Sascha Vorbeck, Werner Weiershausen, Fritz-Joachim Westphal
2000 J jnl
Wirel. Pers. Commun.
Ralf-Peter Braun, Gerd Großkopf, R. Hentges, Detlef Rohde, M. Rohde, Fred Schmidt
redb/extractors/elf_extractors/elf_exports.py
← Index redb/extractors/elf_extractors/elf_exports.py python
import inspect
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from typing import Any, List, Set

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 ELFExport


class ELFExportExtractor(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_exports = None
        self.elastic_index = self.index_prefix + "-elf_exports"
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

    def _get_exported_functions_from_symbols(self, elf) -> Set[str]:
        """Extract exported functions from symbol tables."""
        exported_functions = set()

        try:
            # Check both static (.symtab) and dynamic (.dynsym) symbol tables
            symbol_sections = ['.symtab', '.dynsym']

            for section_name in symbol_sections:
                section = elf.get_section_by_name(section_name)
                if not section or not hasattr(section, 'iter_symbols'):
                    continue

                for symbol in section.iter_symbols():
                    # Check if symbol is exported (defined and globally visible)
                    if (symbol.name and
                        symbol.entry.get('st_shndx', 0) != 'SHN_UNDEF' and  # Not undefined
                        symbol.entry.get('st_info', {}).get('bind') in ['STB_GLOBAL', 'STB_WEAK'] and  # Global or weak binding
                        symbol.entry.get('st_info', {}).get('type') in ['STT_FUNC', 'STT_OBJECT']):  # Function or object

                        # Additional checks for meaningful exports
                        if (symbol.entry.get('st_value', 0) > 0 or  # Has a value
                            symbol.entry.get('st_size', 0) > 0):    # Has a size
                            exported_functions.add(symbol.name)

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting exported functions from symbols: {e}")

        return exported_functions

    def _get_exported_functions_from_dynamic_section(self, elf) -> Set[str]:
        """Extract exported functions information from dynamic section."""
        exported_functions = set()

        try:
            # Get the dynamic section
            dynamic_section = elf.get_section_by_name('.dynamic')
            if not dynamic_section:
                return exported_functions

            # Look for version definition sections that might indicate exports
            # This is complementary to symbol table analysis
            for tag in dynamic_section.iter_tags():
                if tag.entry.d_tag == 'DT_SONAME':
                    # If it has a SONAME, it's likely a shared library with exports
                    # The actual exports are still found in symbol tables
                    pass

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting exports from dynamic section: {e}")

        return exported_functions

    def _filter_meaningful_exports(self, exports: Set[str]) -> Set[str]:
        """Filter out compiler-generated and internal symbols to focus on meaningful exports."""
        filtered_exports = set()

        # Common patterns to exclude (compiler-generated, internal symbols)
        exclude_patterns = [
            '_start',
            '_init',
            '_fini',
            '__libc_',
            '__gmon_start__',
            '_IO_stdin_used',
            '__data_start',
            '__bss_start',
            '_edata',
            '_end',
            '__TMC_END__',
            '_ITM_deregisterTMCloneTable',
            '_ITM_registerTMCloneTable',
            '__cxa_finalize',
            '__gxx_personality_v0',
            '_Jv_RegisterClasses'
        ]

        for export in exports:
            # Skip empty or very short names
            if not export or len(export) < 2:
                continue

            # Skip symbols that match exclude patterns
            skip = False
            for pattern in exclude_patterns:
                if export.startswith(pattern):
                    skip = True
                    break

            # Skip symbols that look like internal mangled names (but keep reasonable C++ names)
            if export.startswith('_Z') and len(export) > 50:  # Very long mangled names
                skip = True

            if not skip:
                filtered_exports.add(export)

        return filtered_exports

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

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

            def extract_data(elf):
                # Extract exported functions from multiple sources
                exported_functions = set()

                # From symbol tables (primary source)
                symbol_exports = self._get_exported_functions_from_symbols(elf)
                exported_functions.update(symbol_exports)

                # From dynamic section (supplementary)
                dynamic_exports = self._get_exported_functions_from_dynamic_section(elf)
                exported_functions.update(dynamic_exports)

                # Filter out compiler-generated and internal symbols
                meaningful_exports = self._filter_meaningful_exports(exported_functions)

                # Convert to sorted list for consistent output
                export_functions_list = sorted(list(meaningful_exports))

                # Return ELFExport dataclass
                return ELFExport(
                    elf_exports_total=len(export_functions_list),
                    elf_export_functions=export_functions_list,
                )

            if not self._is_elf_file():
                return None

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

            self.elf_exports = result
            return self.elf_exports

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

                # Prepare data array
                data = [[
                    self.sha256,
                    self.md5,
                    self.sha1,
                    self.elf_exports.elf_exports_total,
                    self.elf_exports.elf_export_functions,
                    datetime.now(timezone.utc)
                ]]

                column_names = [
                    'sha256', 'md5', 'sha1',
                    'elf_exports_total',
                    'elf_export_functions',
                    'analysis_date'
                ]

                if not data:
                    return None

                column_type_names = [
                    'FixedString(64)', 'FixedString(32)', 'FixedString(40)',
                    'UInt32',
                    'Array(LowCardinality(String))',
                    'DateTime64(3, \'UTC\')'
                ]

                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_exports"