Vikas Chauhan

19 papers B 2Misc 2Journal 8Unranked 7
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
Comput. Electron. Agric.
Sapna, Himanshu Gauttam, Vikas Chauhan, K. K. Pattanaik, Aditya Trivedi, Hrishita Ghosh
2025 J jnl
J. Supercomput.
Vikas Chauhan, Aruna Tiwari, Arun Kumar
2025 conf
BCCA
Vikas Chauhan, Chandresh Kumar Maurya, Subhra Mazumdar
2023 conf
IC3I
Kavish Agarwal, Gaurav Nagarkoti, Vikas Chauhan, Papita
2023 conf
CVIP (3)
Anikeit Sethi, Krishanu Saini, Rituraj Singh, Aruna Tiwari, Sumeet Saurav, Sanjay Singh, Vikas Chauhan
2023 J jnl
Evol. Syst.
Vikas Chauhan, Aruna Tiwari, Boppudi Venkata, Vislavath Naik
2023 conf
IC3I
Raiza Goel, Vikas Chauhan, Gaurav Nagarkoti, Suresh Kumar
2023 conf
SSCI
Anikeit Sethi, Krishanu Saini, Rituraj Singh, Sumeet Saurav, Aruna Tiwari, Sanjay Singh, Vikas Chauhan
2022 conf
IC3I
Keshav Kaushik, Suman Avdhesh Yadav, Vikas Chauhan, Aditya Rana
2022 J jnl
Appl. Intell.
Vikas Chauhan, Aruna Tiwari, Niranjan Joshi, Sahaj Khandelwal
2022 J jnl
Eng. Appl. Artif. Intell.
Vikas Chauhan, Aruna Tiwari
2022 J jnl
Appl. Soft Comput.
Vikas Chauhan, Aruna Tiwari
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Sandeep Kaushik, Mikael Bylund, Cristina Cozzini, Dattesh Shanbhag, Steven F. Petit, Jonathan J. Wyatt, Marion I. Menzel, Carolin M. Pirkl, Bhairav Mehta, Vikas Chauhan, Kesavadas Chandrasekharan, Joakim Jonsson, Tufve Nyholm, Florian Wiesinger, Bjoern H. Menze
2020 B conf
IJCNN
Vikas Chauhan, Aruna Tiwari, Shivvrat Arya
2018 conf
SSCI
Vikas Chauhan, Aruna Tiwari
2016 Misc conf
VLSID
Vikas Chauhan, Neel Gala, V. Kamakoti
2016 Misc conf
VTS
Kevin Greene, Vikas Chauhan, Brian A. Floyd
2006 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Parallel Distributed Syst.
Sachin Agarwal, Vikas Chauhan, Ari Trachtenberg
2004 B conf
GLOBECOM
Vikas Chauhan, Ari Trachtenberg
redb/extractors/pe_extractors/pe_signature_old.py
← Index redb/extractors/pe_extractors/pe_signature_old.py python
import inspect
import pefile

from hashlib import md5, sha1, sha256

from asn1crypto import cms, pem, x509, core

from redb.extractors.enum import Tag
from redb.extractors.pe_extractor import PEExtractor
from redb.models.dataclasses import PECertificate, PESigner


class PESignatureExtractor(PEExtractor):
    """
    RFC 3161 - Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Time-Stamp Protocol (TSP)
    Section 2.4.2 defines the TSTInfo structure.
    https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3161#section-2.4.2

    Microsoft Authenticode Time Stamping Specification
    https://download.microsoft.com/download/9/c/5/9c5b2167-8017-4bae-9fde-d599bac8184a/Authenticode_PE.docx
    """

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

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

    @staticmethod
    def _extract_certificate_info(cert_data):
        # self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

        certificate = x509.Certificate.load(cert_data)
        certificate_serial_number = format(certificate.serial_number, "x").upper()
        grouped_serial_number = ":".join(
            [
                certificate_serial_number[i : i + 2]
                for i in range(0, len(certificate_serial_number), 2)
            ]
        )
        return PECertificate(
            _id=format(certificate.serial_number, "x").upper(),
            certificate_serial_number=grouped_serial_number,
            certificate_issuer=certificate.issuer.human_friendly,
            certificate_subject=certificate.subject.human_friendly,
            certificate_valid_from=certificate["tbs_certificate"]["validity"][
                "not_before"
            ].native.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"),
            certificate_valid_to=certificate["tbs_certificate"]["validity"][
                "not_after"
            ].native.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"),
            certificate_thumbprint=sha1(cert_data).hexdigest().upper(),
            certificate_md5=md5(cert_data).hexdigest().upper(),
            certificate_sha256=sha256(cert_data).hexdigest().upper(),
        )

    @staticmethod
    def _parse_microsoft_time_stamp(ts_token):
        class TSTInfo(core.Sequence):
            _fields = [
                ("version", core.Integer),
                ("policy_id", core.ObjectIdentifier),
                ("message_imprint", core.Sequence),
                ("serial_number", core.Integer),
                ("gen_time", core.GeneralizedTime),
                ("accuracy", core.Sequence, {"optional": True}),
                ("ordering", core.Boolean, {"optional": True}),
                ("nonce", core.Integer, {"optional": True}),
                ("tsa", core.Sequence, {"optional": True}),
                ("extensions", core.Sequence, {"optional": True}),
            ]

        # The content should be SignedData
        signed_data = ts_token["content"]

        # The actual timestamp should be in the encapContentInfo
        encap_content_info = signed_data["encap_content_info"]
        tst_info = TSTInfo.load(encap_content_info["content"])

        # Extract the genTime field from TSTInfo, type(genTime): <class 'datetime.datetime'>
        gen_time = tst_info["gen_time"].native

        return gen_time

    def _extract_signer_info(self, signer):
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)
        signing_time = None

        for attr_set in [signer["signed_attrs"], signer["unsigned_attrs"]]:
            if attr_set:
                for attribute in attr_set:
                    attr_type = attribute["type"].dotted
                    if attr_type == "1.2.840.113549.1.9.5":  # signingTime
                        signing_time = attribute["values"][0].native
                        break
                    elif (
                        attr_type == "1.3.6.1.4.1.311.3.2.1"
                        or attr_type == "1.3.6.1.4.1.311.3.3.1"
                    ):  # microsoft_time_stamp_token
                        try:
                            ts_token = attribute["values"][0].native
                            signing_time = self._parse_microsoft_time_stamp(ts_token)
                            self.log.debug(
                                f"Signing Time from Microsoft Time Stamp Token: {signing_time}"
                            )
                        except Exception as e:
                            self.log.error(
                                f"Error parsing Microsoft Time Stamp Token: {e}"
                            )
                            self.log.error("Token structure:", attribute["values"][0])
                    elif attr_type == "1.2.840.113549.1.9.6":  # counterSignature
                        counter_sig_values = attribute["values"]
                        for counter_sig_value in counter_sig_values:
                            try:
                                counter_sig_info = cms.SignerInfo.load(
                                    counter_sig_value.native
                                )
                                cs_signed_attrs = counter_sig_info["signed_attrs"]
                                for cs_attr in cs_signed_attrs:
                                    cs_attr_type = cs_attr["type"].dotted
                                    if (
                                        cs_attr_type == "1.2.840.113549.1.9.5"
                                    ):  # signingTime
                                        signing_time = cs_attr["values"][0].native
                                        self.log.debug(
                                            "Signing Time (from countersignature):",
                                            signing_time,
                                        )
                                        break
                                if signing_time:
                                    break
                            except Exception as e:
                                self.log.error(
                                    f"Error processing countersignature: {e}"
                                )
                    if signing_time:
                        break
            if signing_time:
                break
        signer_serial_number = format(
            signer["sid"].native["serial_number"], "x"
        ).upper()
        grouped_serial_number = " ".join(
            [
                signer_serial_number[i : i + 2]
                for i in range(0, len(signer_serial_number), 2)
            ]
        )
        return PESigner(
            # this is to avoid duplicate _id with the Signer certificate used to sign as they are in the same ES index
            _id=format(signer["sid"].native["serial_number"], "x").upper()
            + signer["digest_algorithm"]["algorithm"].native,
            signer_serial_number=grouped_serial_number,
            signer_digest_algorithm=signer["digest_algorithm"]["algorithm"].native,
            signer_signature_algorithm=signer["signature_algorithm"][
                "algorithm"
            ].native,
            signing_time=(
                signing_time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") if signing_time else None
            ),
            # "countersigners": extract_countersigners(signer), # TODO: Implement this
        )

    def _extract_signature_info(self):
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)
        address = self.pe.OPTIONAL_HEADER.DATA_DIRECTORY[
            pefile.DIRECTORY_ENTRY["IMAGE_DIRECTORY_ENTRY_SECURITY"]
        ].VirtualAddress
        size = self.pe.OPTIONAL_HEADER.DATA_DIRECTORY[
            pefile.DIRECTORY_ENTRY["IMAGE_DIRECTORY_ENTRY_SECURITY"]
        ].Size

        addr_8 = address + 8
        signature_data = bytes(
            self.pe.write()[addr_8 : addr_8 + size]  # noqa E203
        )  # Ensure this is a bytes object
        if pem.detect(signature_data):
            signature_data = pem.unarmor(signature_data)

        content_info = cms.ContentInfo.load(signature_data)
        signed_data = content_info["content"]

        certificates = signed_data["certificates"]
        signers = signed_data["signer_infos"]

        certificates_list = []
        for cert in certificates:
            cert_info = self._extract_certificate_info(cert.chosen.dump())
            certificates_list.append(cert_info)

        signer_info_list = []
        for signer in signers:
            signer_info = self._extract_signer_info(signer)
            signer_info_list.append(signer_info)

        return certificates_list, signer_info_list

    def extract(self):
        try:
            self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)
            if self._is_signed():
                certificates_list, signers_list = self._extract_signature_info()
                # self.export_to_elastic([PECodeSigning(certificates_list, signers_list)])
                self.export_to_elastic(certificates_list, Tag.PE_CERTIFICATE.value)
                self.export_to_elastic(signers_list, Tag.PE_SIGNER.value)
            return True
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting PE Signature: {e}")
            return None