Vasista Sai Lodagala

13 papers A 5Misc 1Journal 5Unranked 2
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 A conf
INTERSPEECH
Brian Yan, Injy Hamed, Shuichiro Shimizu, Vasista Sai Lodagala, William Chen, Olga Iakovenko, Bashar Talafha, Amir Hussein, Alexander Polok, Kalvin Chang, Dominik Klement, Sara Althubaiti, Puyuan Peng, Matthew Wiesner, Thamar Solorio, Ahmed Ali, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Shinji Watanabe
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Brian Yan, Injy Hamed, Shuichiro Shimizu, Vasista Sai Lodagala, William Chen, Olga Iakovenko, Bashar Talafha, Amir Hussein, Alexander Polok, Kalvin Chang, Dominik Klement, Sara Althubaiti, Puyuan Peng, Matthew Wiesner, Thamar Solorio, Ahmed Ali, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Shinji Watanabe, Chih-Chen Chen, Zhen Wu, Karim Benharrak, Anuj Diwan, Samuele Cornell, Eunjung Yeo, Kwanghee Choi, Carlos Carvalho, Karen Rosero
2025 A conf
INTERSPEECH
Vasista Sai Lodagala, Lamya Alkanhal, Daniel Izham, Shivam Mehta, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Aqeelah Makki, Hamdy S. Hussein, Gustav Eje Henter, Ahmed Ali
2024 A conf
INTERSPEECH
Vasista Sai Lodagala, Abhishek Biswas, Shoutrik Das, Jordan Fernandes, Srinivasan Umesh
2023 Misc conf
ICASSP
Vasista Sai Lodagala, Sreyan Ghosh, Srinivasan Umesh
2023 A conf
INTERSPEECH
Ramanan Sivaguru, Vasista Sai Lodagala, Srinivasan Umesh
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Ramanan Sivaguru, Vasista Sai Lodagala, Srinivasan Umesh
2023 A conf
INTERSPEECH
Anusha Prakash, Arun Kumar A, Ashish Seth, Bhagyashree Mukherjee, Ishika Gupta, Jom Kuriakose, Jordan Fernandes, K. V. Vikram, Mano Ranjith Kumar M., Metilda Sagaya Mary, Mohammad Wajahat, Mohana N, Mudit Batra, Navina K, Nihal John George, Nithya Ravi, Pruthwik Mishra, Sudhanshu Srivastava, Vasista Sai Lodagala, Vandan Mujadia, Kada Sai Venkata Vineeth, Vrunda N. Sukhadia, Dipti Misra Sharma, Hema A. Murthy, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Srinivasan Umesh, Rajeev Sangal
2022 conf
SLT
Vasista Sai Lodagala, Sreyan Ghosh, Srinivasan Umesh
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Vasista Sai Lodagala, Sreyan Ghosh, Srinivasan Umesh
2022 conf
SLT
Vasista Sai Lodagala, Sreyan Ghosh, Srinivasan Umesh
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Anusha Prakash, Arun Kumar A, Ashish Seth, Bhagyashree Mukherjee, Ishika Gupta, Jom Kuriakose, Jordan Fernandes, K. V. Vikram, Mano Ranjith Kumar M., Metilda Sagaya Mary, Mohammad Wajahat, Mohana N, Mudit Batra, Navina K, Nihal John George, Nithya Ravi, Pruthwik Mishra, Sudhanshu Srivastava, Vasista Sai Lodagala, Vandan Mujadia, Kada Sai Venkata Vineeth, Vrunda N. Sukhadia, Dipti Misra Sharma, Hema A. Murthy, Pushpak Bhattacharya, Srinivasan Umesh, Rajeev Sangal
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Vasista Sai Lodagala, Sreyan Ghosh, Srinivasan Umesh
redb/extractors/malcontent.py
← Index redb/extractors/malcontent.py python
import inspect
import json
import subprocess
from typing import Any
from datetime import datetime, timezone

from redb.extractors.enum import Tag
from redb.models.dataclasses import Malcontent
from redb.extractors.extractor import Extractor
from dotenv import load_dotenv
import os

load_dotenv(override=True)


class MalcontentExtractor(Extractor):
    """
    Extractor for malcontent tool from chainguard-dev/malcontent.

    Malcontent discovers supply-chain compromises through context, differential
    analysis, and 14,000+ YARA rules. It analyzes binaries and code to detect
    malicious content and suspicious behavioral patterns.

    Binary can be extracted from Docker image:
        docker cp $(docker create cgr.dev/chainguard/malcontent:latest):/usr/bin/mal /usr/local/bin/mal

    Stores full JSON output for materialized view extraction.
    """

    # Cache version at class level to avoid repeated subprocess calls
    _cached_version = None

    def __init__(
        self,
        filepath,
        log,
        exporters=None,
        index_prefix=None,
        elastic_index=None,
        known_benign=False,
        known_malicious=False,
    ):
        super().__init__(
            filepath,
            log,
            exporters,
            index_prefix,
            elastic_index,
            known_benign,
            known_malicious
        )
        self.malcontent = None

    @classmethod
    def _get_malcontent_version(cls, log) -> str:
        """Get malcontent version, cached at class level."""
        if cls._cached_version is not None:
            return cls._cached_version

        malcontent_path = os.getenv("MALCONTENT_PATH", "/usr/local/bin/mal")
        try:
            result = subprocess.run(
                [malcontent_path, "--version"],
                capture_output=True,
                text=True,
                timeout=10
            )
            version_output = result.stdout.strip()
            if result.returncode == 0 and version_output:
                # Parse "malcontent version v1.21.5" -> "1.21.5"
                if version_output.startswith("malcontent version v"):
                    version_output = version_output[len("malcontent version v"):]
                elif version_output.startswith("malcontent version "):
                    version_output = version_output[len("malcontent version "):]
                cls._cached_version = version_output
            else:
                cls._cached_version = "unknown"
        except Exception as e:
            log.warning(f"Could not get malcontent version: {e}")
            cls._cached_version = "unknown"

        return cls._cached_version

    def _extract_malcontent(self):
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)
        TIMEOUT = int(os.getenv("MALCONTENT_TIMEOUT", "300"))
        malcontent_path = os.getenv("MALCONTENT_PATH", "/usr/local/bin/mal")

        malcontent_command = [malcontent_path, "analyze", "--format=json", self.filepath]

        import signal

        try:
            process = subprocess.Popen(
                malcontent_command,
                stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
                text=True,
                preexec_fn=os.setsid
            )

            try:
                stdout, stderr = process.communicate(timeout=TIMEOUT)
                if process.returncode != 0:
                    self.log.error(f"Error running malcontent, return code: {process.returncode}, stderr: {stderr}")
                    return {}
            except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
                self.log.warning(f"The malcontent command timed out after {TIMEOUT} seconds, terminating process group")
                try:
                    os.killpg(process.pid, signal.SIGTERM)
                    try:
                        process.wait(timeout=3)
                    except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
                        self.log.warning("Process didn't terminate with SIGTERM, sending SIGKILL")
                        os.killpg(process.pid, signal.SIGKILL)
                    process.wait()
                except (ProcessLookupError, OSError) as e:
                    self.log.warning(f"Error while killing process: {e}")
                return {}

            try:
                malcontent_output = json.loads(stdout)
            except json.JSONDecodeError as e:
                self.log.error(f"Error parsing malcontent output: {e}")
                return {}

            # Unwrap the Files/<path> structure to get the inner content
            # Structure is: {"Files": {"/path/to/file": {<actual content>}}}
            files_dict = malcontent_output.get("Files", {})
            if not files_dict:
                self.log.warning("Malcontent output has no 'Files' key")
                return {}

            # Get the first (and only) file's content
            file_content = next(iter(files_dict.values()), {})
            if not file_content:
                self.log.warning("Malcontent output has empty file content")
                return {}

            # Extract risk score and level from the unwrapped content
            risk_score = file_content.get("RiskScore", 0)
            risk_level = file_content.get("RiskLevel", "")

            version = self._get_malcontent_version(self.log)

            self.malcontent = Malcontent(
                malcontent_dump=json.dumps(file_content),
                version=version,
                risk_score=risk_score,
                risk_level=risk_level
            )
            self.log.debug(f"Malcontent analysis complete, version={version}, risk={risk_level}({risk_score})")

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Unexpected error in malcontent extraction: {str(e)}")
            if 'process' in locals() and process.poll() is None:
                try:
                    os.killpg(process.pid, signal.SIGKILL)
                    process.wait()
                except:
                    pass
            return {}

    def prepare_export_data(self, exporter_type: str) -> Any:
        if exporter_type == "ClickHouseExporter":
            current_time = datetime.now(timezone.utc)

            data = [[
                self.sha256,
                current_time,
                self.malcontent.version,
                self.malcontent.risk_score,
                self.malcontent.risk_level,
                self.malcontent.malcontent_dump
            ]]

            column_names = [
                'sha256', 'analysis_date',
                'malcontent_version', 'malcontent_risk_score', 'malcontent_risk_level',
                'malcontent_json'
            ]

            column_type_names = [
                'FixedString(64)',
                'DateTime64(3, \'UTC\')',
                'LowCardinality(String)', 'UInt8', 'LowCardinality(String)',
                'JSON'
            ]

            return (data, column_names, column_type_names)

    def get_clickhouse_table(self) -> str:
        return "redb_malcontent"

    def extract(self):
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)
        try:
            self._extract_malcontent()
            return self.malcontent
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting malcontent: {e}")
            return None

    def tag(self):
        return Tag.MALCONTENT.value