Vesna Nowack

16 papers A 2B 2Journal 7Unranked 4
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Dalal Alrajeh, Vesna Nowack, Patrick Benjamin, Katie Thomas, William Hobson, Carolina Gutierrez Muñoz, Catherine Hamilton-Giachritsis, Juliane A. Kloess, Jessica Woodhams, Daniel Butler, Mark Law, Ralph Morton, Benjamin Costello, Amy Burrell, Tim D. Grant, Prachiben Shah, Frances Adriana Laureano De Leon, Mark Lee
2025 A conf
EASE
Vesna Nowack, Dalal Alrajeh, Carolina Gutierrez Muñoz, Katie Thomas, William Hobson, Patrick Benjamin, Catherine Hamilton-Giachritsis, Tim Grant, Juliane A. Kloess, Jessica Woodhams
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Vesna Nowack, Dalal Alrajeh, Carolina Gutierrez Muñoz, Katie Thomas, William Hobson, Catherine Hamilton-Giachritsis, Patrick Benjamin, Tim Grant, Juliane A. Kloess, Jessica Woodhams
2024 J jnl
ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes
William B. Langdon, Gabin An, Aymeric Blot, Vesna Nowack, Justyna Petke, Shin Yoo, Oliver Krauss, Erik M. Fredericks, Daniel Blackwell
2023 J jnl
ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes
William B. Langdon, Vesna Nowack, Justyna Petke, Markus Wagner, Hyeonseok Lee, Erik M. Fredericks, Gabin An, Aymeric Blot
2023 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Software Eng.
Emily Winter, David Bowes, Steve Counsell, Tracy Hall, Saemundur O. Haraldsson, Vesna Nowack, John R. Woodward
2023 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Software Eng.
Emily Winter, Vesna Nowack, David Bowes, Steve Counsell, Tracy Hall, Sæmundur Óskar Haraldsson, John R. Woodward
2023 B conf
SEAA
Steve Counsell, Emily Winter, Tracy Hall, Vesna Nowack
2022 B conf
SEAA
Steve Counsell, Vesna Nowack, Tracy Hall, David Bowes, Saemundur Haraldsson, Emily Winter, John R. Woodward
2022 conf
ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE
Emily Rowan Winter, Vesna Nowack, David Bowes, Steve Counsell, Tracy Hall, Sæmundur Óskar Haraldsson, John R. Woodward, Serkan Kirbas, Etienne Windels, Olayori McBello, Abdurahman Atakishiyev, Kevin Kells, Matthew W. Pagano
2021 A conf
ISSRE
Vesna Nowack, David Bowes, Steve Counsell, Tracy Hall, Saemundur Haraldsson, Emily Winter, John R. Woodward
2021 J jnl
IEEE Softw.
Serkan Kirbas, Etienne Windels, Olayori McBello, Kevin Kells, Matthew W. Pagano, Rafal Szalanski, Vesna Nowack, Emily Rowan Winter, Steve Counsell, David Bowes, Tracy Hall, Saemundur Haraldsson, John R. Woodward
2020 conf
GECCO Companion
Vesna Nowack, David Bowes, Steve Counsell, Tracy Hall, Saemundur Haraldsson, Emily Winter, John R. Woodward
2020 conf
ICSE (Workshops)
Emily Winter, David Bowes, Steve Counsell, Tracy Hall, Saemundur Haraldsson, Vesna Nowack, John R. Woodward
2018 conf
CF
Adrián Cristal, Osman S. Unsal, Xavier Martorell, Paul Carpenter, Raúl de la Cruz, Leonardo Bautista-Gomez, Daniel Jiménez-González, Carlos Álvarez, Behzad Salami, Sergi Madonar, Miquel Pericàs, Pedro Trancoso, Micha vor dem Berge, Gunnar Billung-Meyer, Stefan Krupop, Wolfgang Christmann, Frank Klawonn, Amani Mihklafi, Tobias Becker, Georgi Gaydadjiev, Hans Salomonsson, Devdatt P. Dubhashi, Oron Port, Yoav Etsion, Vesna Nowack, Christof Fetzer, Jens Hagemeyer, Thorsten Jungeblut, Nils Kucza, Martin Kaiser, Mario Porrmann, Marcelo Pasin, Valerio Schiavoni, Isabelly Rocha, Christian Göttel, Pascal Felber
2016
Vesna Nowack
redb/extractors/macho_extractors/macho_dylibs.py
← Index redb/extractors/macho_extractors/macho_dylibs.py python
import hashlib
import inspect
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from typing import Any

from redb.extractors.enum import Tag
from redb.extractors.macho_extractor import MachOExtractor
from redb.models.dataclasses import MachODylib


class MachODylibExtractor(MachOExtractor):

    def __init__(
        self,
        filepath,
        log,
        exporters=None,
        index_prefix=None,
        elastic_index=None,
        known_benign=False,
        known_malicious=False,
        macho=None,
    ):
        super().__init__(
            filepath,
            log,
            exporters,
            index_prefix,
            elastic_index,
            known_benign,
            known_malicious,
            macho,
        )
        self.elastic_index = self.index_prefix + "-macho_dylibs"
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

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

    def _extract_dylibs(self):
        """Extract dynamic library information from all architectures in the MachO binary."""
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)
        dylibs = []

        if not self.macho:
            return dylibs

        try:
            # Get architectures using new API (already parsed in base class)
            architectures = self.macho.get_architectures()
            if not architectures:
                return dylibs

            # Process each architecture
            for arch_name in architectures:
                # Get dylib commands using new API with architecture parameter
                dylib_commands = self.macho.get_dylib_commands(arch=arch_name)
                if not dylib_commands:
                    continue

                # Extract dylib commands for this architecture
                for dylib_cmd in dylib_commands:
                    try:
                        dylib_name = dylib_cmd.get('dylib_name', 'Unknown')
                        if isinstance(dylib_name, bytes):
                            dylib_name = dylib_name.decode('utf-8', errors='replace')

                        # Create dylib dataclass with architecture info
                        macho_dylib = MachODylib(
                            dylib_name=dylib_name,
                            dylib_timestamp=dylib_cmd.get('dylib_timestamp', 0),
                            dylib_current_version=dylib_cmd.get('dylib_current_version', 0),
                            dylib_compat_version=dylib_cmd.get('dylib_compat_version', 0),
                        )
                        # Add architecture info to the dylib
                        macho_dylib.architecture = arch_name
                        dylibs.append(macho_dylib)

                    except Exception as e:
                        self.log.warning(
                            f'Unable to process dylib "{dylib_cmd.get("dylib_name", "Unknown")}" for architecture {arch_name} in {self.hash.sha256}: {e}'
                        )
                        continue

            return dylibs

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting MachO dylibs: {e}")
            return dylibs

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

    def prepare_export_data(self, exporter_type: str) -> Any:
        if exporter_type == "ElasticsearchExporter":
            return self.extract()
        elif exporter_type == "ClickHouseExporter":
            if not self.macho:
                return None

            # Get architectures (macho is already parsed in base class)
            try:
                architectures = self.macho.get_architectures()
                is_fat = len(architectures) > 1
            except Exception as e:
                self.log.error(f"Could not get architectures: {e}")
                return None

            data = []
            current_time = datetime.now(timezone.utc)

            # Loop through each architecture (1 for single, multiple for FAT)
            for arch_name in architectures:
                # Get architecture-specific sha256
                try:
                    arch_general_info = self.macho.get_general_info(arch=arch_name)
                    arch_header_raw = self.macho.get_macho_header(arch=arch_name)
                    arch_sha256 = arch_general_info.get('SHA256', self.sha256)
                    arch_cputype_raw = arch_header_raw.get('cputype', 0) if arch_header_raw else 0
                except Exception as e:
                    self.log.warning(f"Could not get arch-specific data for {arch_name}: {e}")
                    arch_sha256 = self.sha256
                    arch_cputype_raw = 0

                # Get dylib commands for this architecture
                dylib_commands = self.macho.get_dylib_commands(arch=arch_name)
                if not dylib_commands:
                    continue

                # Process each dylib for this architecture
                for dylib_cmd in dylib_commands:
                    try:
                        dylib_name = dylib_cmd.get('dylib_name', 'Unknown')
                        if isinstance(dylib_name, bytes):
                            dylib_name = dylib_name.decode('utf-8', errors='replace')

                        data.append([
                            arch_sha256,                          # sha256 (architecture-specific)
                            dylib_name,                           # dylib_name
                            dylib_cmd.get('dylib_timestamp', 0), # dylib_timestamp
                            dylib_cmd.get('dylib_current_version', 0), # dylib_current_version
                            dylib_cmd.get('dylib_compat_version', 0),  # dylib_compat_version
                            current_time,                         # analysis_date
                        ])
                    except Exception as e:
                        self.log.warning(
                            f'Unable to process dylib "{dylib_cmd.get("dylib_name", "Unknown")}" for architecture {arch_name}: {e}'
                        )
                        continue

            column_names = [
                'sha256',
                'dylib_name', 'dylib_timestamp', 'dylib_current_version',
                'dylib_compat_version', 'analysis_date'
            ]

            if not data:
                return None

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

            return (data, column_names, column_type_names)

        return None

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