Wajahat Ali

24 papers Journal 16Unranked 8
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Consumer Electron.
Wajahat Ali, Ikram Ud Din, Ahmad Almogren, Ayman Altameem, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues
2025 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol.
Wajahat Ali, Ikram Ud Din, Ahmad Almogren, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues
2025 J jnl
IEEE Internet Things J.
Wajahat Ali, Ikram Ud Din, Ahmad Almogren, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues
2025 conf
ECOC
Yee Hui Low, Wajahat Ali, Michael J. Crisp, Richard V. Penty
2025 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Consumer Electron.
Wajahat Ali, Ikram Ud Din, Ahmad Almogren, Ayman Altameem, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues
2025 conf
ECOC
Rui Ma, Lingzhi Luo, Tongyun Li, Dimitris Syrivelis, Jing Zhang, Wajahat Ali, Ziyao Zhang, Peng Bao, Günther Roelkens, Richard V. Penty, Qixiang Cheng
2024 J jnl
IEEE Access
Wajahat Ali, Ikram Ud Din, Ahmad Almogren, Mahdi Zareei, Rajesh Roshan Biswal
2024 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Consumer Electron.
Wajahat Ali, Ikram Ud Din, Ahmad Almogren, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues
2024 J jnl
IEEE Access
Wajahat Ali, Ikram Ud Din, Ahmad Almogren, Muhammad Yasar Khan, Ayman Altameem
2024 J jnl
Secur. Priv.
Ikram Ud Din, Wajahat Ali, Ahmad Almogren, Iehab Al Rassan, Sherali Zeadally
2023 conf
OFC
Tongyun Li, Wajahat Ali, Rui Chen, Yi Liu, Michael J. Crisp, Richard V. Penty
2023 J jnl
IEEE Wirel. Commun.
Mohammad Dehghani Soltani, Ahmad Adnan Qidan, Shenjie Huang, Barzan A. Yosuf, Sanaa H. Mohamed, Ravinder Singh, Yi Liu, Wajahat Ali, Rui Chen, Hossein Kazemi, Elham Sarbazi, Bela Berde, Dominique Chiaroni, Bastien Béchadergue, Fathi Abdeldayem, Hardik Soni, Jose Tabu, Micheline Perrufel, Nikola Serafimovski, Taisir E. H. El-Gorashi, Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani, Michael J. Crisp, Richard V. Penty, Ian H. White, Harald Haas, Majid Safari
2022 J jnl
Sensors
Wajahat Ali, Ikram Ud Din, Ahmad Almogren, Byung-Seo Kim
2022 J jnl
Axioms
Ali Turab, Janusz Brzdek, Wajahat Ali
2022 J jnl
Symmetry
Reny George, Zoran D. Mitrovic, Ali Turab, Ana Savic, Wajahat Ali
2021 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Ind. Informatics
Wajahat Ali, Ikram Ud Din, Ahmad Almogren, Mohsen Guizani, Mansour Zuair
2021 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Ind. Informatics
Wajahat Ali, Ikram Ud Din, Ahmad Almogren, Neeraj Kumar
2021 J jnl
Symmetry
Ali Turab, Won-Gil Park, Wajahat Ali
2021 J jnl
IEEE Access
Wajahat Ali, Grahame E. Faulkner, Zubair Ahmed, William Matthews, Steve Collins
2020 conf
GLOBECOM (Workshops)
Wajahat Ali, Grahame E. Faulkner, Zubair Ahmed, William Matthews, Dominic C. O'Brien, Steve Collins
2017 conf
ICNC-FSKD
Shams Ullah, Eraj Khan, Sultan Ullah, Wajahat Ali
2017 conf
ICNC-FSKD
Sultan Ullah Jadoon, Wajahat Ali, Ikram Ud Din, Yousaf Saeed, Muhammad Junaid, Eraj Khan, Shams Ullah
2017 conf
ECOC
Giulio Cossu, Wajahat Ali, Alessandro Sturniolo, Alessandro Messa, Ernesto Ciaramella
2014 conf
ECOC
Giulio Cossu, Wajahat Ali, Raffaele Corsini, Ernesto Ciaramella
redb/extractors/pe_extractor.py
← Index redb/extractors/pe_extractor.py python
import logging
from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod
import inspect

import magic
import pefile
from dotnetfile import DotNetPE

from redb.extractors.extractor import Extractor

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)


@abstractmethod
class PEExtractor(Extractor, metaclass=ABCMeta):

    def __init__(
        self,
        filepath,
        log,
        exporters=None,
        index_prefix=None,
        elastic_index=None,
        known_benign=False,
        known_malicious=False,
        pe=None,
    ):
        super().__init__(
            filepath,
            log,
            exporters,
            index_prefix,
            elastic_index,
            known_benign,
            known_malicious
        )
        self.pe = pe if pe else self._generate_pefile_object()
        self.dotnet = None

    def _generate_pefile_object(self):
        pe = None
        try:
            pe = pefile.PE(self.filepath)
            if not pe:
                raise pefile.PEFormatError("Empty file?")
        except pefile.PEFormatError as e:
            self.log.error(f"Format error {self.hash.sha256} Full error : {e}")
        return pe

    def _generate_dotnetfile_object(self):
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)
        dotnet = None
        error = None
        try:
            dotnet = DotNetPE(self.filepath)
            if not dotnet:
                raise Exception("Empty file?")
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(
                f"Format error dotnet file {self.hash.sha256} Full error : {e}"
            )
            error = e
        return dotnet, error

    def _check_dotnet(self):
        try:
            file_type = magic.from_buffer(self.binary)
            if ".Net" in file_type:
                return True
            for entry in self.pe.OPTIONAL_HEADER.DATA_DIRECTORY:
                # IMAGE_DIRECTORY_ENTRY_COM_DESCRIPTOR is typically 14
                if (
                    entry.name == "IMAGE_DIRECTORY_ENTRY_COM_DESCRIPTOR"
                    and entry.Size > 0
                ):
                    return True
            return False
        except AttributeError as e:
            self.log.error(
                f"AttributeError error dotnet file {self.hash.sha256} Full error : {e}"
            )
            return False

    def _is_signed(self):
        address = self.pe.OPTIONAL_HEADER.DATA_DIRECTORY[
            pefile.DIRECTORY_ENTRY["IMAGE_DIRECTORY_ENTRY_SECURITY"]
        ].VirtualAddress
        if address == 0:
            return False
        return True

    def _has_overlay(self):
        return bool(self.pe.get_overlay())