Vimala Balakrishnan

58 papers B 1Journal 50Unranked 7
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
Neural Process. Lett.
Liyana Shuib, Christopher Ifeanyi Eke, Nor Aniza Azmi, Vimala Balakrishnan, Hairil Abdul Razak
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Filip Nowicki, Hubert Marciniak, Jakub Laczkowski, Krzysztof Jassem, Tomasz Górecki, Vimala Balakrishnan, Desmond C. Ong, Maciej Behnke
2025 J jnl
Comput. Mater. Continua
Rajendren Subramaniam, Saaidal Razalli Azzuhri, Teh Ying Wah, Atif Mahmood, Vimala Balakrishnan
2025 J jnl
Int. J. Mach. Learn. Cybern.
Vimala Balakrishnan, Zahiriddin Rustamov, Ghayathri Ramanathan, Jia Leng Lim
2025 conf
MMAsia
Zhuangzhuang Pan, Yan Xia, Vimala Balakrishnan, Muhammad Zaiamri Zainal Abidin, Siti Soraya Abdul Rahman
2025 J jnl
PeerJ Comput. Sci.
Vimala Balakrishnan, Deepiga Loganathamoorthy, Ramesh Kumar Ayyasamy, Saadat M. Alhashmi, Chinnasamy P.
2024 J jnl
Educ. Inf. Technol.
Farhan Bashir Shaikh, Ramesh Kumar Ayyasamy, Vimala Balakrishnan, Mobashar Rehman, Shadab Kalhoro
2024 J jnl
Int. J. Intell. Comput. Cybern.
Vimala Balakrishnan, Aainaa Nadia Mohammed Hashim, Voon Chung Lee, Voon Hee Lee, Ying Qiu Lee
2024 J jnl
Multim. Tools Appl.
Vimala Balakrishnan, Ghayathri Ramanathan, Siyi Zhou, Chee Kuan Wong
2024 J jnl
Health Informatics J.
Saravanan Rajagopal, Vimala Balakrishnan, Yin Kia Chiam
2023 conf
ICSCA
Kalaimagal Ramakrishnan, Vimala Balakrishnan, Soo Mun Chong
2023 J jnl
Online Inf. Rev.
Vimala Balakrishnan, Luqman Hakim Abdul Rahman, Jia Kai Tan, Yee Sin Lee
2023 J jnl
Behav. Inf. Technol.
Vimala Balakrishnan, See Kiat Ng
2023 J jnl
ACM Trans. Asian Low Resour. Lang. Inf. Process.
Vimala Balakrishnan, Vithyatheri Govindan, Kumanan Govaichelvan
2022 J jnl
J. Supercomput.
Vimala Balakrishnan, Zhongliang Shi, Chuan Liang Law, Regine Lim, Lee Leng Teh, Yue Fan
2022 J jnl
J. King Saud Univ. Comput. Inf. Sci.
Vithyatheri Govindan, Vimala Balakrishnan
2022 conf
DeLTA
Kalaimagal Ramakrishnan, Vimala Balakrishnan, Kumanan Govaichelvan
2022 J jnl
Telematics Informatics
Vimala Balakrishnan, Kee Seong Ng, Hamid R. Arabnia
2021 J jnl
J. Supercomput.
Vimala Balakrishnan, Lok Pik Yin, Hajar Abdul Rahim
2020 J jnl
Online Inf. Rev.
Yasir Mehmood, Vimala Balakrishnan
2020 J jnl
J. Supercomput.
Mohammed Kaity, Vimala Balakrishnan
2020 J jnl
Comput. Secur.
Vimala Balakrishnan, Shahzaib Khan, Hamid R. Arabnia
2020 conf
ICCDA
Vimala Balakrishnan, Pravin Kumar Selvanayagam, Lok Pik Yin
2020 J jnl
Knowl. Inf. Syst.
Mohammed Kaity, Vimala Balakrishnan
2019 J jnl
J. Supercomput.
Mohammed Kaity, Vimala Balakrishnan
2019 J jnl
Comput. Educ.
Nur Baiti Afini Normadhi, Nor Liyana Mohd Shuib, Mohd Hairul Nizam Bin Md Nasir, Andrew Thomas Bimba, Norisma Idris, Vimala Balakrishnan
2019 J jnl
Telematics Informatics
Wandeep Kaur, Vimala Balakrishnan, Omer F. Rana, Ajantha Sinniah
2019 J jnl
Int. J. Inf. Syst. Serv. Sect.
Hossein Arabi, Vimala Balakrishnan
2019 B conf
KES
Vimala Balakrishnan, Wandeep Kaur
2018 J jnl
Telematics Informatics
Vimala Balakrishnan
2018 J jnl
Aslib J. Inf. Manag.
Prabha Rajagopal, Sri Devi Ravana, Yun Sing Koh, Vimala Balakrishnan
2018 J jnl
Ind. Manag. Data Syst.
Wandeep Kaur, Vimala Balakrishnan
2018 J jnl
Int. J. Hum. Comput. Interact.
Chin Lay Gan, Vimala Balakrishnan
2018 J jnl
Telematics Informatics
Vimala Balakrishnan, Terence Fernandez
2017 J jnl
Soft Comput.
Elham Majd, Vimala Balakrishnan
2017 J jnl
Univers. Access Inf. Soc.
Vimala Balakrishnan
2017 J jnl
Telematics Informatics
Chin Lay Gan, Vimala Balakrishnan
2017 J jnl
Univers. Access Inf. Soc.
Vimala Balakrishnan
2017 J jnl
Comput. Hum. Behav.
Vimala Balakrishnan
2016 J jnl
Ind. Manag. Data Syst.
Elham Majd, Vimala Balakrishnan
2016 J jnl
Behav. Inf. Technol.
Azra Shamim, Vimala Balakrishnan, Muhammad Tahir, Muhammad Ahsan Qureshi
2016 conf
ICADIWT
Wandeep Kaur, Vimala Balakrishnan
2016 J jnl
Inf. Res.
Vimala Balakrishnan, Yasir Mehmood, Yoganathan Nagappan
2016 J jnl
Telematics Informatics
Vimala Balakrishnan, Chin Lay Gan
2015 J jnl
Comput. Hum. Behav.
Vimala Balakrishnan
2015 J jnl
Inf. Vis.
Azra Shamim, Vimala Balakrishnan, Muhammad Tahir
2015 J jnl
Comput. Educ.
Vimala Balakrishnan, Teik Kooi Liew, Shiva Pourgholaminejad
2015 J jnl
Aslib J. Inf. Manag.
Vimala Balakrishnan, Kian Ahmadi, Sri Devi Ravana
2015 J jnl
Aslib J. Inf. Manag.
Sri Devi Ravana, Prabha Rajagopal, Vimala Balakrishnan
2015 J jnl
J. Intell. Fuzzy Syst.
Elham Majd, Vimala Balakrishnan
2014 conf
SocialCom
Kung-Keat Teoh, Tahereh Pourshafie, Vimala Balakrishnan
2014 J jnl
J. Comput. High. Educ.
Chin Lay Gan, Vimala Balakrishnan
2014 J jnl
Comput. Hum. Behav.
Vimala Balakrishnan, Xinyue Zhang
2013 conf
DaEng
Elham Majd, Vimala Balakrishnan
2013 J jnl
J. Intell. Fuzzy Syst.
Vimala Balakrishnan, Mohammad Reza Shakouri, Hooman Hoodeh
2013 J jnl
Comput. Hum. Behav.
Vimala Balakrishnan, Azra Shamim
2012 J jnl
Telematics Informatics
Vimala Balakrishnan, Ram Gopal Raj
2008 J jnl
Int. J. Technol. Hum. Interact.
Vimala Balakrishnan, P. H. P. Yeow
redb/utils/sort_files_by_type.py
← Index redb/utils/sort_files_by_type.py python
import os
import sys
from collections import defaultdict
import tempfile
from magika import Magika
import py7zr
import pyzipper
import shutil

"""
This script is used to sort files by their type. 
It reads all the files in the provided directory and splits them into different 
directories based on their type. Mainly, it classifies the files into the following types:
- PE Binaries
- Mach-O Binaries
- ELF Binaries
- APK 
- Other Files

It outputs the count of files for each file extension and file type.

Command line example:
nohup python3 sort_files_by_type.py /mnt/samples/consilience/malware/vx-bazaar-expanded/Bazaar.2020.12 \
    /mnt/samples/consilience/malware/_sorted_samples/vx-bazaar/2020/ > \
    /mnt/samples/consilience/malware/ops-logs/20241014-SORT_FILES-bazaar_2020.12.output.log 2>&1 &
"""


def process_zip_file(filepath):
    print(f"[INFO] - Processing zip file: {filepath}")
    with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as temp_dir:
        try:
            with pyzipper.AESZipFile(filepath) as zf:
                zf.pwd = b"infected"
                filename = zf.namelist()[0]
                zf.extractall(temp_dir)
                extracted_zip_path = os.path.join(temp_dir, filename)
                return process_binary_file(extracted_zip_path)
        except Exception as e:
            print(f"[ERR] - Error processing zip file {filepath}: {str(e)}")
            return None


def process_7z_file(filepath):
    print(f"[INFO] - Processing 7z file: {filepath}")
    with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as temp_dir:
        try:
            with py7zr.SevenZipFile(filepath, mode="r", password="infected") as z:
                z.extractall(path=temp_dir)
                for root, _, files in os.walk(temp_dir):
                    for file in files:
                        extracted_file_path = os.path.join(root, file)
                        return process_binary_file(extracted_file_path)
        except Exception as e:
            print(f"[ERR] - Error processing 7z file {filepath}: {str(e)}")
            return None


def process_binary_file(filepath):
    print(f"[INFO] - Processing binary file: {filepath}")
    try:
        with open(filepath, "rb") as f:
            data = f.read(512 * 1024)  # 512KB
        return Magika().identify_bytes(data).output.ct_label
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"[ERR] - Error processing binary file {filepath}: {str(e)}")
        return "ERROR"


def count_file_extensions(path, dest_dir):
    # A defaultdict to store file extension counts
    extension_count = defaultdict(int)
    filetype_count = defaultdict(int)
    tot_files = 0

    # Walk through the directory
    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path):
        for file in files:
            if file.startswith("."):
                continue

            tot_files += 1
            # Split the file extension from the file name
            _, ext = os.path.splitext(file)
            ext = ext.lower()

            # Count the extensions
            extension_count[ext] += 1
            filepath = os.path.join(root, file)
            filetype = ""

            if ext == ".7z":
                filetype = process_7z_file(filepath)
            elif ext == ".zip":
                filetype = process_zip_file(filepath)
            else:
                filetype = process_binary_file(filepath)

            filetype_count[filetype] += 1

            if filetype == "pebin":
                dest = os.path.join(dest_dir, "pebin")
                os.makedirs(dest, exist_ok=True)
                shutil.copy2(filepath, os.path.join(dest, file))
            elif filetype == "macho":
                dest = os.path.join(dest_dir, "macho")
                os.makedirs(dest, exist_ok=True)
                shutil.copy2(filepath, os.path.join(dest, file))
            elif filetype == "elf":
                dest = os.path.join(dest_dir, "elf")
                os.makedirs(dest, exist_ok=True)
                shutil.copy2(filepath, os.path.join(dest, file))
            elif filetype == "apk":
                dest = os.path.join(dest_dir, "apk")
                os.makedirs(dest, exist_ok=True)
                shutil.copy2(filepath, os.path.join(dest, file))
            else:
                dest = os.path.join(dest_dir, "other")
                os.makedirs(dest, exist_ok=True)
                shutil.copy2(filepath, os.path.join(dest, file))
            print(f"[STATUS] - Progres: {tot_files}/{len(files)} files processed")

    # Print the results
    # print("- File Extension Statistics:")
    # for ext, count in extension_count.items():
    #     if ext:  # To exclude files with no extension
    #         print(f"\t{ext}: {count} files")

    # if "" in extension_count:
    #     print(f'\t{extension_count[""]} files with no extension')

    print(f"- Total Number of Files: {tot_files}")
    print("\n- File Type Statistics:")
    for filetype, count in sorted(filetype_count.items()):
        print(f"\t{filetype:<15}{count:>8}")


if __name__ == "__main__":
    # Check if the path was passed as a command-line argument
    if len(sys.argv) != 3:
        print("Usage: python3 script.py <input_path> <dest_dir>")
        sys.exit(1)

    # Get the path from the command-line arguments
    input_path = sys.argv[1]
    dest_dir = sys.argv[2]

    # Check if the provided path is valid
    if not os.path.isdir(input_path):
        print(f"The path '{input_path}' is not a valid directory.")
        sys.exit(1)

    # Call the function to count file extensions
    count_file_extensions(input_path, dest_dir)