Victor Cionca

35 papers B 9C 2Misc 2Journal 15Unranked 7
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Jamie Cotter, Ignacio Castiñeiras, Victor Cionca
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Jamie Cotter, Ignacio Castiñeiras, Donna O'Shea, Victor Cionca
2023 J jnl
Comput. Networks
Jamie Cotter, Ignacio Castiñeiras, Donna O'Shea, Victor Cionca
2023 B conf
PIMRC
Jamie Cotter, Ignacio Castiñeiras, Donna O'Shea, Victor Cionca
2023 C conf
WFCS
Álvaro Augusto Machado de Medeiros, Victor Cionca
2023 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Ind. Informatics
Yasantha Samarawickrama, Álvaro Augusto M. de Medeiros, Victor Cionca
2023 conf
CITS
Yasantha Samarawickrama, Álvaro Augusto M. de Medeiros, Victor Cionca
2023 J jnl
J. Netw. Syst. Manag.
Dylan Smyth, Sandra Scott-Hayward, Victor Cionca, Seán McSweeney, Donna O'Shea
2021 conf
CSCN
Victor Cionca, Donna O'Shea, Hemanth K. Pannem, Akshatha Sathyanarayan, Archit Baweja, Ki Suh Lee, Sacheth Hegde
2021 Misc conf
COMSNETS
Yasantha Samarawickrama, Victor Cionca
2021 Misc conf
COMSNETS
Yasantha Samarawickrama, Victor Cionca, Susan Rea, Alan McGibney
2021 J jnl
IEEE Internet Things J.
Roland Katona, Victor Cionca, Donna O'Shea, Dirk Pesch
2020 J jnl
IEEE Internet Things J.
Khaled Q. Abdelfadeel, Dimitrios Zorbas, Victor Cionca, Dirk Pesch
2019 J jnl
Comput. Networks
Dylan Smyth, Donna O'Shea, Victor Cionca, Seán McSweeney
2019 B conf
WiMob
Khaled Q. Abdelfadeel, Yasantha Samarawickrama, Victor Cionca
2019 conf
WF-IoT
Dimitrios Zorbas, Khaled Q. Abdelfadeel, Victor Cionca, Dirk Pesch, Brendan O'Flynn
2018 J jnl
CoRR
Khaled Q. Abdelfadeel, Victor Cionca, Dirk Pesch
2018 B conf
DCOSS
Khaled Q. Abdelfadeel, Victor Cionca, Dirk Pesch
2018 J jnl
CoRR
Khaled Q. Abdelfadeel, Dimitrios Zorbas, Victor Cionca, Brendan O'Flynn, Dirk Pesch
2018 C conf
WOWMOM
Khaled Q. Abdelfadeel, Victor Cionca, Dirk Pesch
2018 J jnl
CoRR
Khaled Q. Abdelfadeel, Victor Cionca, Dirk Pesch
2018 B conf
WCNC
Victor Cionca, Ramona Marfievici, Roland Katona, Dirk Pesch
2018 J jnl
IEEE Internet Things J.
Victor Cionca, Alan McGibney, Susan Rea
2018 B conf
EWSN
Khaled Q. Abdelfadeel, Victor Cionca, Dirk Pesch
2017 B conf
ICCCN
Dylan Smyth, Seán McSweeney, Donna O'Shea, Victor Cionca
2017 B conf
PIMRC
Roland Katona, Victor Cionca, Donna O'Shea, Dirk Pesch
2017 conf
CHANTS@MOBICOM
Khaled Q. Abdelfadeel, Victor Cionca, Dirk Pesch
2017 J jnl
CoRR
Khaled Q. Abdelfadeel, Victor Cionca, Dirk Pesch
2016 conf
Cyber Security And Protection Of Digital Services
Dylan Smyth, Victor Cionca, Seán McSweeney, Donna O'Shea
2016 B conf
MASS
Pablo Corbalan, Ramona Marfievici, Victor Cionca, Donna O'Shea, Dirk Pesch
2016 B conf
EWSN
Pablo Corbalan, Victor Cionca, Ramona Marfievici, Donna O'Shea, Dirk Pesch
2015 conf
MONAMI
Donna O'Shea, Victor Cionca, Dirk Pesch
2013 J jnl
Int. J. Distributed Sens. Networks
Wensi Wang, Victor Cionca, Ningning Wang, Mike Hayes, Brendan O'Flynn, S. Cian O'Mathuna
2012 J jnl
J. Netw. Syst. Manag.
Victor Cionca, Thomas Newe, Vasile Teodor Dadarlat
2012 conf
EMBC
Alan K. Bourke, Sandra Prescher, Friedrich Koehler, Victor Cionca, Carlos Tavares, Sergi Gomis, Virginia Garcia, John Nelson
redb/extractors/macho_extractors/macho_imports.py
← Index redb/extractors/macho_extractors/macho_imports.py python
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 MachOImport


class MachOImportExtractor(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_imports"
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

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

    def _extract_imports(self, arch_name=None):
        """Extract import information from the MachO binary for a specific architecture.

        Handles machofile v2026.2.4+ API where get_imported_functions() returns:
        Dict[str, List[Dict]] where each dict has {'name': str, 'sources': [str, ...]}
        """
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

        if not self.macho:
            return None

        try:
            # Get imported functions using API for specific architecture
            imported_functions = self.macho.get_imported_functions(arch=arch_name)
            if not imported_functions:
                return None

            # Keep the library→functions mapping (like PE does)
            library_names = []
            imports_with_mapping = []  # List of {library: [(name, source), ...]}

            for dylib_name, functions in imported_functions.items():
                # v2026.2.4+: dylib_name is already str, but handle bytes for compatibility
                if isinstance(dylib_name, bytes):
                    dylib_name = dylib_name.decode('utf-8', errors='replace')
                library_names.append(dylib_name)

                # Process function entries
                func_list = []
                for func_entry in functions:
                    # v2026.2.4+: func_entry is {'name': str, 'sources': [str, ...]}
                    if isinstance(func_entry, dict):
                        func_name = func_entry.get('name', '')
                        # Join sources if multiple, take first if single
                        sources = func_entry.get('sources', [])
                        import_source = sources[0] if sources else None
                        func_list.append((func_name, import_source))
                    else:
                        # Legacy format: func_entry is str or bytes
                        if isinstance(func_entry, bytes):
                            func_entry = func_entry.decode('utf-8', errors='replace')
                        func_list.append((func_entry, None))

                imports_with_mapping.append({dylib_name: func_list})

            # Count total functions
            total_functions = sum(len(list(d.values())[0]) for d in imports_with_mapping)

            # Create import dataclass with mapping preserved
            macho_import = MachOImport(
                macho_imports_total=total_functions,
                macho_import_libraryName=library_names if library_names else None,
                macho_import_functions=imports_with_mapping if imports_with_mapping else None
            )

            return macho_import

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting MachO imports for arch {arch_name}: {e}")
            return None

    def extract(self):
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)
        try:
            # Get architectures (macho is already parsed in base class)
            architectures = self.macho.get_architectures()
            if len(architectures) > 1:
                # FAT binary - return list of imports for each architecture
                results = []
                for arch_name in architectures:
                    imports = self._extract_imports(arch_name)
                    if imports:
                        imports.arch_identifier = arch_name
                        results.append(imports)
                return results
            else:
                # Single architecture - return single result
                return self._extract_imports(architectures[0] if architectures else None)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting MachO imports: {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

            # Flatten the data - one row per function import (like PE imports)
            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 imports for this architecture
                macho_import = self._extract_imports(arch_name)
                if not macho_import or not macho_import.macho_import_functions:
                    continue

                # Flatten to one row per (library, function) pair
                for lib_funcs in macho_import.macho_import_functions:
                    for lib, funcs in lib_funcs.items():
                        for func_name, import_source in funcs:
                            data.append([
                                arch_sha256,        # sha256 (arch-specific)
                                lib,                # library_name
                                func_name,          # function_name
                                import_source,      # import_source (chained_fixups, bind_opcodes, symtab)
                                current_time,       # analysis_date
                            ])

            column_names = [
                'sha256',
                'library_name', 'function_name', 'import_source',
                'analysis_date'
            ]

            if not data:
                return None

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

            return (data, column_names, column_type_names)

        return None

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