Vernon J. Lawhern

36 papers A* 2A 1B 7Journal 21Unranked 5
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Neil C. Janwani, Ellen R. Novoseller, Vernon J. Lawhern, Maegan Tucker
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Connor Mattson, Varun Raveendra, Ellen R. Novoseller, Nicholas R. Waytowich, Vernon J. Lawhern, Daniel S. Brown
2024 J jnl
CoRR
David Chhan, Ellen R. Novoseller, Vernon J. Lawhern
2024 A* conf
AAAI
Devin White, Mingkang Wu, Ellen R. Novoseller, Vernon J. Lawhern, Nicholas R. Waytowich, Yongcan Cao
2024 conf
ICMCIS
Anna Madison, Ellen R. Novoseller, Vinicius G. Goecks, Benjamin T. Files, Nicholas R. Waytowich, Alfred Yu, Vernon J. Lawhern, Steven Thurman, Christopher Kelshaw, Kaleb McDowell
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Anna Madison, Ellen R. Novoseller, Vinicius G. Goecks, Benjamin T. Files, Nicholas R. Waytowich, Alfred Yu, Vernon J. Lawhern, Steven Thurman, Christopher Kelshaw, Kaleb McDowell
2023 conf
NER
Stephen M. Gordon, Vernon J. Lawhern, Jonathan Touryan
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Stephen M. Gordon, Jonathan R. McDaniel, Kevin W. King, Vernon J. Lawhern, Jonathan Touryan
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Devin White, Mingkang Wu, Ellen R. Novoseller, Vernon J. Lawhern, Nicholas R. Waytowich, Yongcan Cao
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Xiaoxi Wei, A. Aldo Faisal, Moritz Grosse-Wentrup, Alexandre Gramfort, Sylvain Chevallier, Vinay Jayaram, Camille Jeunet, Stylianos Bakas, Siegfried Ludwig, Konstantinos Barmpas, Mehdi Bahri, Yannis Panagakis, Nikolaos A. Laskaris, Dimitrios A. Adamos, Stefanos Zafeiriou, William C. Duong, Stephen M. Gordon, Vernon J. Lawhern, Maciej Sliwowski, Vincent Rouanne, Piotr Tempczyk
2021 conf
NeurIPS (Competition and Demos)
Xiaoxi Wei, A. Aldo Faisal, Moritz Grosse-Wentrup, Alexandre Gramfort, Sylvain Chevallier, Vinay Jayaram, Camille Jeunet, Stylianos Bakas, Siegfried Ludwig, Konstantinos Barmpas, Mehdi Bahri, Yannis Panagakis, Nikolaos A. Laskaris, Dimitrios A. Adamos, Stefanos Zafeiriou, William C. Duong, Stephen M. Gordon, Vernon J. Lawhern, Maciej Sliwowski, Vincent Rouanne, Piotr Tempczyk
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Ritwik Bera, Vinicius G. Goecks, Gregory M. Gremillion, Vernon J. Lawhern, John Valasek, Nicholas R. Waytowich
2020 A conf
AAMAS
Vinicius G. Goecks, Gregory M. Gremillion, Vernon J. Lawhern, John Valasek, Nicholas R. Waytowich
2020 B conf
SMC
Jonathan R. McDaniel, Stephen M. Gordon, Vernon J. Lawhern
2020 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Signal Process.
Addison W. Bohannon, Vernon J. Lawhern, Nicholas R. Waytowich, Radu V. Balan
2019 A* conf
AAAI
Vinicius G. Goecks, Gregory M. Gremillion, Vernon J. Lawhern, John Valasek, Nicholas R. Waytowich
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Vinicius G. Goecks, Gregory M. Gremillion, Vernon J. Lawhern, John Valasek, Nicholas R. Waytowich
2018 J jnl
CoRR
Dongrui Wu, Vernon J. Lawhern, Stephen M. Gordon, Brent J. Lance, Chin-Teng Lin
2018 conf
EMBC
Jonathan R. McDaniel, Stephen M. Gordon, Amelia J. Solon, Vernon J. Lawhern
2018 J jnl
CoRR
Nicholas R. Waytowich, Vinicius G. Goecks, Vernon J. Lawhern
2018 J jnl
CoRR
Vinicius G. Goecks, Gregory M. Gremillion, Vernon J. Lawhern, John Valasek, Nicholas R. Waytowich
2018 J jnl
CoRR
Dongrui Wu, Vernon J. Lawhern, Stephen M. Gordon, Brent J. Lance, Chin-Teng Lin
2017 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Syst.
Dongrui Wu, Vernon J. Lawhern, Stephen M. Gordon, Brent J. Lance, Chin-Teng Lin
2017 J jnl
CoRR
Dongrui Wu, Vernon J. Lawhern, Stephen M. Gordon, Brent J. Lance, Chin-Teng Lin
2017 J jnl
CoRR
Dongrui Wu, Brent J. Lance, Vernon J. Lawhern, Stephen M. Gordon, Tzyy-Ping Jung, Chin-Teng Lin
2017 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Syst.
Dongrui Wu, Brent J. Lance, Vernon J. Lawhern
2017 conf
BCIforReal@IUI
Stephen M. Gordon, Matthew Jaswa, Amelia J. Solon, Vernon J. Lawhern
2017 J jnl
CoRR
Dongrui Wu, Vernon J. Lawhern, W. David Hairston, Brent J. Lance
2016 B conf
SMC
Dongrui Wu, Vernon J. Lawhern, Stephen M. Gordon, Brent J. Lance, Chin-Teng Lin
2016 B conf
SMC
Addison W. Bohannon, Nicholas R. Waytowich, Vernon J. Lawhern, Brian M. Sadler, Brent J. Lance
2016 J jnl
Computer
Sameer Saproo, Josef Faller, Victor Shih, Paul Sajda, Nicholas R. Waytowich, Addison W. Bohannon, Vernon J. Lawhern, Brent J. Lance, David C. Jangraw
2016 J jnl
CoRR
Vernon J. Lawhern, Amelia J. Solon, Nicholas R. Waytowich, Stephen M. Gordon, Chou P. Hung, Brent J. Lance
2016 B conf
SMC
Dongrui Wu, Vernon J. Lawhern, Stephen M. Gordon, Brent J. Lance, Chin-Teng Lin
2016 B conf
SMC
Dongrui Wu, Vernon J. Lawhern, Stephen M. Gordon, Brent J. Lance, Chin-Teng Lin
2015 B conf
ACII
Dongrui Wu, Vernon J. Lawhern, Brent J. Lance
2015 B conf
SMC
Dongrui Wu, Vernon J. Lawhern, Brent J. Lance
redb/extractors/extractor.py
← Index redb/extractors/extractor.py python
import hashlib
import inspect
from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod
from dataclasses import asdict
from functools import cached_property
from datetime import datetime, timezone
import math
from typing import Counter, List, Optional, Dict, Any, Tuple
from redb import settings
from redb.models.dataclasses import Hash
from .database_exporters import DatabaseExporter, ElasticsearchExporter, ClickHouseExporter, PrintExporter

class Extractor(metaclass=ABCMeta):
    def __init__(
        self,
        filepath: str,
        log: Any,
        exporters: Optional[List[DatabaseExporter]] = None,
        index_prefix: Optional[str] = None,
        source: Optional[str] = None,
        elastic_index: Optional[str] = None,
        known_benign: bool = False,
        known_malicious: bool = False,
        precomputed_hashes: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None,
    ):
        self.log = log
        self.log.debug(f"Creating {self.__class__.__name__}")
        self.filepath = filepath
        self.source = source
        self.exporters = exporters or []
        self.index_prefix = index_prefix if index_prefix else settings.ELASTIC_BINARIES_COLLECTION
        self.elastic_index = self.index_prefix + (elastic_index if elastic_index else "")
        self.known_benign = known_benign
        self.known_malicious = known_malicious

        # Use precomputed hashes if provided (e.g., from machofile, pefile)
        # Otherwise compute them from binary
        if precomputed_hashes:
            self.md5 = precomputed_hashes.get('md5') or precomputed_hashes.get('MD5')
            self.sha1 = precomputed_hashes.get('sha1') or precomputed_hashes.get('SHA1')
            self.sha256 = precomputed_hashes.get('sha256') or precomputed_hashes.get('SHA256')
        else:
            self.md5 = hashlib.md5(self.binary).hexdigest()
            self.sha1 = hashlib.sha1(self.binary).hexdigest()
            self.sha256 = hashlib.sha256(self.binary).hexdigest()
        self.hash = Hash(self.md5, self.sha1, self.sha256)

    @cached_property
    def binary(self):
        with open(self.filepath, "rb") as f:
            data = f.read()
        return data

    @property
    @abstractmethod
    def tag(self):
        pass

    @abstractmethod
    def extract(self):
        """
        this method defines the extracted data
        """

    @staticmethod
    def process_binary_string(s):
        # Remove \x00 padding
        s = s.rstrip(b"\x00")

        # Check if there are any non-printable characters
        has_non_printable = any(byte < 32 or byte > 126 for byte in s)

        if not has_non_printable:
            # If all characters are printable, decode the string
            return s.decode()
        else:
            # If there are non-printable characters, represent them as \xDD
            return "".join(
                [
                    f"\\x{byte:02x}" if byte < 32 or byte > 126 else chr(byte)
                    for byte in s
                ]
            )

    @staticmethod
    def remove_non_utf8(binary_string):
        decoded = b""
        for i in range(len(binary_string)):
            try:
                # Try to decode each byte
                char = binary_string[i : i + 1].decode("utf-8")
                decoded += char.encode("utf-8")
            except UnicodeDecodeError:
                # Skip this byte if it can't be decoded
                continue
        return decoded

    def calculate_entropy(self, data):
        """Calculate the entropy of a chunk of data.
        Based on pefile.SectionStructure.entropy_H.
        """
        # self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)
        if not data:
            return 0.0

        if type(data) == str:
            counts = Counter(data)
            frequencies = ((i / len(data)) for i in counts.values())
            return - sum(f * math.log(f, 2) for f in frequencies)
        else:
            occurences = Counter(bytearray(data))
            entropy = 0
            for x in occurences.values():
                p_x = float(x) / len(data)
                entropy -= p_x * math.log(p_x, 2)
            return entropy

    @abstractmethod
    def prepare_export_data(self, exporter_type: str) -> Tuple[List[Any], List[str], List[str]]:
        """
        Prepare data for specific export type
        Returns:
            Tuple containing:
            - data: List of values to insert
            - column_names: List of column names
            - column_type_names: List of column types
        """
        pass

    def export_data(self):
        """Export data to all configured exporters

        Returns:
            True: Export succeeded
            False: Export failed (actual error)
            None: No data to export (not an error, e.g., no overlay, no signature)
        """
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)
        success = True
        extracted_data = self.extract()

        if extracted_data is None:
            self.log.debug("extract() returned None, skipping export")
            return None  # No data to export, not a failure
            
        for exporter in self.exporters:
            if isinstance(exporter, PrintExporter):
                # For PrintExporter, we pass the extracted data directly
                success &= exporter.export(extracted_data)
            else:
                # Get the data prepared for this specific exporter type
                export_data = self.prepare_export_data(exporter.__class__.__name__)
                
                if export_data is None:
                    self.log.debug(f"prepare_export_data returned None for {exporter.__class__.__name__}")
                    return False
                
                if isinstance(exporter, ElasticsearchExporter):
                    success &= exporter.export(
                        export_data,
                        index=self.elastic_index,
                        tag=self.tag(),
                        hashes=asdict(self.hash),
                        known_benign=self.known_benign,
                        known_malicious=self.known_malicious
                    )
                elif isinstance(exporter, ClickHouseExporter):
                    # For ClickHouse, we need to pass the table name and the prepared data
                    success &= exporter.export(
                        export_data,
                        table=self.get_clickhouse_table(),
                        # Add these parameters explicitly
                        column_names=export_data[1] if isinstance(export_data, tuple) else None,
                        column_type_names=export_data[2] if isinstance(export_data, tuple) else None
                    )
                
        return success

    @abstractmethod
    def get_clickhouse_table(self) -> str:
        """Return the appropriate ClickHouse table name"""
        pass
    # def export_to_elastic(self, list_of_dataclasses, tag=None):
    #     self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

    #     if not isinstance(list_of_dataclasses, list):
    #         self.log.error("Called export_to_elastic wrongly")

    #     now_t = datetime.now(timezone.utc).strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
    #     for dataclass_ in list_of_dataclasses:
    #         if not settings.ELASTIC_CLIENT.ping():
    #             self.log.error("[CONNECTION ERROR] ping to elastic failed")
            
    #         # Convert dataclass to dict and filter out None values
    #         document = {k: v for k, v in asdict(dataclass_).items() if v is not None}
            
    #         if tag:
    #             document["tag"] = [tag, self.tag()]
    #         else:
    #             document["tag"] = self.tag()
    #         hashes = asdict(self.hash)
    #         document |= hashes
    #         document["timestamp_utc"] = now_t
    #         # document["source"] = self.source
    #         document["known_benign"] = self.known_benign
    #         document["known_malicious"] = self.known_malicious

    #         if "_id" in document:
    #             tmp_id = document.pop("_id") + document["sha256"]
    #             _id = hashlib.sha256(tmp_id.encode()).hexdigest()
    #         else:
    #             _id = document["sha256"]

    #         # self.log.debug(f"[DEBUG] about to export {type(document)} {document}")
    #         try:
    #             doc_dump = json.dumps(document)
    #         except TypeError as e:
    #             self.log.error(
    #                 f"Failed export of document. " f"full document: {document}"
    #             )
    #             raise e

    #         # body={"doc": doc_dump,
    #         #       "doc_as_upsert": True  # Create the document if it doesn't exist
    #         # }

    #         # Check if the index exists, and create it if it doesn't
    #         # if not settings.ELASTIC_CLIENT.indices.exists(index=self.elastic_index):
    #         #     settings.ELASTIC_CLIENT.indices.create(index=self.elastic_index)
    #         # pprint(doc_dump) #DEBUG
    #         # print("[DEBUG] _id: " + _id)
    #         # print("[DEBUG] index: " + self.elastic_index)
    #         settings.ELASTIC_CLIENT.index(
    #             index=self.elastic_index, id=_id, document=doc_dump
    #         )