Venkatesan Rajinikanth

35 papers Journal 21Unranked 12
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2024 J jnl
Expert Syst. J. Knowl. Eng.
Kusum Yadav, Kawther A. Al-Dhlan, Hamad Alreshidi, Gaurav Dhiman, Wattana Viriyasitavat, Abdullah Zaid Almankory, Kadiyala Ramana, S. Vimal, Venkatesan Rajinikanth
2024 J jnl
Expert Syst. J. Knowl. Eng.
Joel Koh En Wei, Venkatesan Rajinikanth, Jahmunah Vicnesh, The-Hanh Pham, Shu Lih Oh, Chai Hong Yeong, Meena Sankaranarayanan, Aditya P. Kamath, Giliyar Muralidhar Bairy, Prabal Datta Barua, Kang Hao Cheong
2024 J jnl
Int. J. Interact. Multim. Artif. Intell.
M. Akshay Kumaar, Duraimurugan Samiayya, Venkatesan Rajinikanth, P. M. Durai Raj Vincent, Seifedine Kadry
2024 J jnl
J. Ambient Intell. Humaniz. Comput.
Seifedine Nimer Kadry, V. Elizabeth Jessy, Venkatesan Rajinikanth, Rubén González Crespo
2023 conf
MIKE
Seifedine Kadry, Mohammed Azmi Al-Betar, Sahar Yassine, Ramya Mohan, Rama Arunmozhi, Venkatesan Rajinikanth
2023 J jnl
J. Ambient Intell. Humaniz. Comput.
Seifedine Kadry, V. Elizabeth Jessy, Venkatesan Rajinikanth, Rubén González Crespo
2023 conf
ICMLDE
Seifedine Nimer Kadry, Laith Abualigah, Rubén González Crespo, Elena Verdú, Robertas Damasevicius, Vijendra Singh, Venkatesan Rajinikanth
2023 conf
ICMLDE
Seifedine Nimer Kadry, Elena Verdú, Robertas Damasevicius, Laith Abualigah, Vijendra Singh, Venkatesan Rajinikanth
2023 conf
ICMLDE
Seifedine Nimer Kadry, Laith Abualigah, Rubén González Crespo, Elena Verdú, Robertas Damasevicius, Vijendra Singh, Venkatesan Rajinikanth
2023 conf
ICACDS
Marriam Nawaz, Ali Javed, Tahira Nazir, Muhammad Attique Khan, Venkatesan Rajinikanth, Seifedine Nimer Kadry
2023 conf
MIKE
Seifedine Kadry, Mohammed Azmi Al-Betar, Sahar Yassine, Ramya Mohan, Rama Arunmozhi, Venkatesan Rajinikanth
2023 J jnl
Int. J. Imaging Syst. Technol.
Anjan Gudigar, U. Raghavendra, Tejaswi N. Rao, Jyothi Samanth, Venkatesan Rajinikanth, Suresh Chandra Satapathy, Edward J. Ciaccio, Wai-Yee Chan, U. Rajendra Acharya
2023 J jnl
Sensors
K. Suresh Manic, Venkatesan Rajinikanth, Ali Saud Al-Bimani, David Taniar, Seifedine Kadry
2023 conf
ICACDS
Marriam Nawaz, Tahira Nazir, Muhammad Attique Khan, Venkatesan Rajinikanth, Seifedine Nimer Kadry
2023 J jnl
Int. J. Interact. Multim. Artif. Intell.
Venkatesan Rajinikanth, Seifedine Kadry, Pablo Moreno-Ger
2022 J jnl
J. Supercomput.
Seifedine Kadry, Venkatesan Rajinikanth, David Taniar, Robertas Damasevicius, Xiomara Patricia Blanco-Valencia
2022 J jnl
Int. J. Uncertain. Fuzziness Knowl. Based Syst.
R. Nandhini Abirami, P. M. Durai Raj Vincent, Venkatesan Rajinikanth, Seifedine Kadry
2021 conf
MIKE
Seifedine Nimer Kadry, David Taniar, Maytham N. Meqdad, Gautam Srivastava, Venkatesan Rajinikanth
2021 conf
ICCTA
Seifedine Kadry, Venkatesan Rajinikanth, Susmitha Dasari, T. Suvathi
2021 J jnl
Inf. Technol. Control.
Venkatesan Rajinikanth, Seifedine Nimer Kadry, Yunyoung Nam
2021 J jnl
Symmetry
Venkatesan Rajinikanth, Shabnam Mohamed Aslam, Seifedine Nimer Kadry
2021 J jnl
Appl. Intell.
Sakshi Ahuja, Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi, Nilanjan Dey, Venkatesan Rajinikanth, Tapan Kumar Gandhi
2021 conf
ICCTA
Seifedine Kadry, Venkatesan Rajinikanth, Jiny Mariam Jerry, R. Carolin Gifta
2021 J jnl
Int. J. Data Warehous. Min.
Venkatesan Rajinikanth, Seifedine Nimer Kadry
2021 conf
MIKE
Seifedine Nimer Kadry, Venkatesan Rajinikanth, Gautam Srivastava, Maytham N. Meqdad
2021 conf
ICCTA
Seifedine Kadry, Venkatesan Rajinikanth, A. Chandrasekar, R. Nandhini Abirami
2020 ch.
Information Technology and Intelligent Transportation Systems
Ananjan Maiti, Himadri Shekhargiri, Biswajoy Chatterjee, Venkatesan Rajinikanth, Fuqian Shi, Nilanjan Dey
2020 J jnl
IEEE Access
Muhammad Attique Khan, Seifedine Nimer Kadry, Majed Alhaisoni, Yunyoung Nam, Yudong Zhang, Venkatesan Rajinikanth, Muhammad Shahzad Sarfraz
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Seifedine Nimer Kadry, Venkatesan Rajinikanth, Seungmin Rho, Nadaradjane Sri Madhava Raja, Vaddi Seshagiri Rao, Krishnan Palani Thanaraj
2020 ch.
Information Technology and Intelligent Transportation Systems
Nilanjan Dey, Fuqian Shi, Venkatesan Rajinikanth
2019 J jnl
IEEE Consumer Electron. Mag.
Steven Lawrence Fernandes, Venkatesan Rajinikanth, Seifedine Nimer Kadry
2019 J jnl
Appl. Soft Comput.
Yu Wang, Yating Chen, Ningning Yang, Longfei Zheng, Nilanjan Dey, Amira S. Ashour, Venkatesan Rajinikanth, João Manuel R. S. Tavares, Fuqian Shi
2018 J jnl
Future Gener. Comput. Syst.
Venkatesan Rajinikanth, Nilanjan Dey, Suresh Chandra Satapathy, Amira S. Ashour
2018 J jnl
Neural Comput. Appl.
Suresh Chandra Satapathy, Nadaradjane Sri Madhava Raja, Venkatesan Rajinikanth, Amira S. Ashour, Nilanjan Dey
2018 J jnl
Symmetry
Nilanjan Dey, Venkatesan Rajinikanth, Amira S. Ashour, João Manuel R. S. Tavares
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"