Wasfy B. Mikhael

107 papers B 1C 11Misc 3Journal 34Unranked 58
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2022 J jnl
Circuits Syst. Signal Process.
Masoumeh Kalantari Khandani, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2021 conf
MWSCAS
Maedeh Sadat Fasihi, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Maedeh Sadat Fasihi, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2021 conf
MWSCAS
Genevieve M. Sapijaszko, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2021 J jnl
Circuits Syst. Signal Process.
Masoumeh Kalantari Khandani, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2021 conf
MWSCAS
Ramy C. G. Chehata, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2021 conf
MWSCAS
Genevieve M. Sapijaszko, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2021 conf
MWSCAS
Taif Alobaidi, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2021 conf
MWSCAS
Masoumeh Kalantari Khandani, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2020 conf
MWSCAS
Masoumeh Kalantari Khandani, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2020 conf
MWSCAS
Taif Alobaidi, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2020 J jnl
Circuits Syst. Signal Process.
Genevieve M. Sapijaszko, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2020 conf
MWSCAS
Maedeh Sadat Fasihi, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2019 J jnl
Circuits Syst. Signal Process.
Taif Alobaidi, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2019 conf
MWSCAS
Ahmed Aldhahab, Taif Alobaidi, Awwab Q. Althahab, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2019 conf
MWSCAS
Ramy C. G. Chehata, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2019 conf
MWSCAS
Masoumeh Kalantari Khandani, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2019 conf
MWSCAS
Taif Alobaidi, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2019 J jnl
Circuits Syst. Signal Process.
Taif Alobaidi, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2019 conf
MWSCAS
Genevieve M. Sapijaszko, Taif Alobaidi, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2018 conf
MWSCAS
Taif Alobaidi, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2018 conf
CCWC
Taif Alobaidi, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2018 conf
MWSCAS
Genevieve M. Sapijaszko, Taif Alobaidi, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2018 conf
MWSCAS
Genevieve M. Sapijaszko, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2018 J jnl
Circuits Syst. Signal Process.
Ahmed Aldhahab, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2018 conf
MWSCAS
Masoumeh Kalantari Khandani, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2017 conf
MWSCAS
Ahmed Aldhahab, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2017 conf
MWSCAS
William McDowell, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2017 conf
MWSCAS
Taif Alobaidi, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2017 conf
CCWC
Taif Alobaidi, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2016 Misc conf
ACSSC
Ahmed Aldhahab, Taif Alobaidi, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2016 conf
MWSCAS
Ahmed Aldhahab, Taif Al Obaidi, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2016 conf
UEMCON
Taif Alobaidi, Ahmed Aldhahab, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2016 conf
GlobalSIP
Ahmed Aldhahab, Taif Al Obaidi, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2016 conf
MWSCAS
Taif Alobaidi, George K. Atia, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2016 conf
MWSCAS
William McDowell, Lockheed Martin, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2015 conf
MWSCAS
Ramy C. G. Chehata, Wasfy B. Mikhael, George K. Atia
2015 conf
ISVC (2)
Ahmed Aldhahab, George K. Atia, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2015 J jnl
IEEE Instrum. Meas. Mag.
Charna R. Parkey, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2015 conf
MWSCAS
Ahmed Aldhahab, George K. Atia, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2014 conf
MWSCAS
Ramy C. G. Chehata, Wasfy B. Mikhael, George K. Atia
2014 J jnl
Circuits Syst. Signal Process.
Ying Liu, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2014 conf
MWSCAS
William McDowell, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2014 conf
MWSCAS
Ahmed Aldhahab, George K. Atia, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2014 Misc conf
ACSSC
Ahmed Aldhahab, George K. Atia, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2013 conf
MWSCAS
Waleed Alrasheed, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2013 J jnl
J. Circuits Syst. Comput.
Ying Liu, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2013 conf
MWSCAS
Ying Liu, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2013 conf
MWSCAS
Genevieve M. Sapijaszko, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2013 J jnl
IEEE Instrum. Meas. Mag.
Charna Parkey, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2013 conf
MWSCAS
Ramy C. G. Chehata, Wasfy B. Mikhael, Moataz M. Abdelwahab
2012 conf
MWSCAS
Waleed Alrasheed, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2012 conf
MWSCAS
Ying Liu, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2012 conf
MWSCAS
Joshua T. Dickey, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2012 conf
MWSCAS
Genevieve M. Sapijaszko, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2012 J jnl
Circuits Syst. Signal Process.
Ying Liu, Raghuram Ranganathan, Matthew T. Hunter, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2012 conf
MWSCAS
Charna R. Parkey, Wasfy B. Mikhael, David B. Chester
2012 conf
MWSCAS
Ramy C. G. Chehata, Wasfy B. Mikhael, Moataz M. Abdelwahab
2010 J jnl
Circuits Syst. Signal Process.
Wasfy B. Mikhael, Raghuram Ranganathan, Thomas Yang
2010 J jnl
J. Circuits Syst. Comput.
Raghuram Ranganathan, Thomas Yang, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2009 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas.
Matthew T. Hunter, Wasfy B. Mikhael, Achilleas G. Kourtellis
2008 J jnl
Signal Process.
Raghuram Ranganathan, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2008 conf
BIOSIGNALS (2)
Aniket A. Vartak, Cali M. Fidopiastis, Denise M. Nicholson, Wasfy B. Mikhael, Dylan Schmorrow
2008 J jnl
Signal Process.
Wasfy B. Mikhael, Raghuram Ranganathan
2007 C conf
ISCAS
Raghuram Ranganathan, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2006 J jnl
EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process.
Wasfy B. Mikhael, Tianyu Yang
2005 conf
ICASSP (5)
Wasfy B. Mikhael, Tianyu Yang
2005 conf
SIP
Thomas T. Yang, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2005 J jnl
J. Circuits Syst. Comput.
Guangyu Zhou, Wasfy B. Mikhael, Brent Myers
2004 B conf
WCNC
Tianyu Yang, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2004 conf
ISCAS (3)
Guangyu Zhou, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2004 conf
Circuits, Signals, and Systems
Pravinkumar Premakanthan, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2003 conf
ISCAS (2)
Wasfy B. Mikhael, Venkatesh Krishnan
2003 conf
ISCAS (2)
Wasfy B. Mikhael, Pravinkumar Premakanthan
2003 J jnl
Digit. Signal Process.
Thomas P. Costello, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2002 conf
ISCAS (4)
Venkatesh Krishnan, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2001 conf
ISCAS (2)
Qingwen Zhang, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2001 J jnl
Digit. Signal Process.
Wasfy B. Mikhael, Venkatesh Krishnan
2000 J jnl
J. Circuits Syst. Comput.
Thomas P. Costello, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2000 J jnl
J. Circuits Syst. Comput.
Qingwen Zhang, Wasfy B. Mikhael
2000 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens.
Yousef W. Nijim, Samuel D. Stearns, Wasfy B. Mikhael
1999 conf
ISCAS (4)
Albert P. Berg, Wasfy B. Mikhael
1999 conf
ISCAS (3)
Thomas P. Costello, Wasfy B. Mikhael
1999 conf
ISCAS (4)
Thomas P. Costello, Wasfy B. Mikhael
1999 conf
ISCAS (3)
Qingwen Zhang, Jaime R. Roman, Dennis W. Davis, Wasfy B. Mikhael
1999 conf
Visual Information Processing
Thomas P. Costello, Wasfy B. Mikhael
1997 J jnl
Digit. Signal Process.
Yousef W. Nijim, Samuel D. Stearns, Wasfy B. Mikhael
1996 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging
Arun Ramaswamy, Wasfy B. Mikhael
1996 J jnl
J. Circuits Syst. Comput.
Wasfy B. Mikhael, Haoping Yu
1996 J jnl
J. Circuits Syst. Comput.
Arun Ramaswamy, Wasfy B. Mikhael
1996 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging
Yousef W. Nijim, Samuel D. Stearns, Wasfy B. Mikhael
1996 J jnl
IEEE Signal Process. Lett.
Wasfy B. Mikhael, Albert P. Berg
1996 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens.
Yousef W. Nijim, Samuel D. Stearns, Wasfy B. Mikhael
1995 C conf
ISCAS
Arun Ramaswamy, Wasfy B. Mikhael
1995 C conf
ISCAS
Yousef W. Nijim, Wasfy B. Mikhael, Samuel D. Stearns
1994 C conf
ISCAS
Arun Ramaswamy, Wasfy B. Mikhael
1994 C conf
ISCAS
Wasfy B. Mikhael, Arun Ramaswamy
1994 C conf
ISCAS
Shomit M. Ghosh, Wasfy B. Mikhael
1994 C conf
ISCAS
Haoping Yu, Wasfy B. Mikhael
1993 C conf
ISCAS
Wasfy B. Mikhael, Arun Ramaswamy
1993 C conf
ISCAS
Wasfy B. Mikhael, Haoping Yu
1993 C conf
ISCAS
Wasfy B. Mikhael, Shomit M. Ghosh
1993 C conf
ISCAS
Wasfy B. Mikhael, Haoping Yu
1991 J jnl
J. Circuits Syst. Comput.
Wasfy B. Mikhael, Frank H. Wu
1988 J jnl
Proc. IEEE
Wasfy B. Mikhael, Andreas S. Spanias
1988 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Acoust. Speech Signal Process.
Wasfy B. Mikhael, Peter D. Hill
1985 Misc conf
ICASSP
Wasfy B. Mikhael, Andreas S. Spanias, Frank H. Wu
redb/extractors/elf_extractors/elf_sections.py
← Index redb/extractors/elf_extractors/elf_sections.py python
import inspect
import hashlib
import math
from collections import Counter
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from typing import Any, List, Dict

from elftools.elf.elffile import ELFFile
from elftools.common.exceptions import ELFError

from redb.extractors.enum import Tag
from redb.extractors.elf_extractor import ELFExtractor
from redb.models.dataclasses import ELFSection


class ELFSectionExtractor(ELFExtractor):

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

    def _is_empty_result(self, extracted_data) -> bool:
        """
        Override: Empty sections is an ERROR, not a valid empty case.
        A valid ELF file must have sections (at minimum a null section).
        """
        # Always return False - empty sections should be treated as an error
        return False

    def _calculate_entropy(self, data: bytes) -> float:
        """Calculate Shannon entropy of data."""
        if not data:
            return 0.0

        try:
            # Count frequency of each byte
            byte_counts = Counter(data)
            data_len = len(data)

            # Calculate entropy
            entropy = 0.0
            for count in byte_counts.values():
                if count > 0:
                    frequency = count / data_len
                    entropy -= frequency * math.log2(frequency)

            return entropy
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error calculating entropy: {e}")
            return 0.0

    def _map_section_type(self, sh_type_str: str) -> int:
        """Map section type string to enum value."""
        type_map = {
            'SHT_NULL': 0,
            'SHT_PROGBITS': 1,
            'SHT_SYMTAB': 2,
            'SHT_STRTAB': 3,
            'SHT_RELA': 4,
            'SHT_HASH': 5,
            'SHT_DYNAMIC': 6,
            'SHT_NOTE': 7,
            'SHT_NOBITS': 8,
            'SHT_REL': 9,
            'SHT_DYNSYM': 11
        }
        return type_map.get(sh_type_str, 0)

    def _decode_section_flags(self, flags: int) -> List[str]:
        """Decode section flags to human-readable strings."""
        flag_strings = []

        # Common ELF section flags
        if flags & 0x1:  # SHF_WRITE
            flag_strings.append('WRITE')
        if flags & 0x2:  # SHF_ALLOC
            flag_strings.append('ALLOC')
        if flags & 0x4:  # SHF_EXECINSTR
            flag_strings.append('EXECINSTR')
        if flags & 0x10:  # SHF_MERGE
            flag_strings.append('MERGE')
        if flags & 0x20:  # SHF_STRINGS
            flag_strings.append('STRINGS')
        if flags & 0x40:  # SHF_INFO_LINK
            flag_strings.append('INFO_LINK')
        if flags & 0x80:  # SHF_LINK_ORDER
            flag_strings.append('LINK_ORDER')
        if flags & 0x100:  # SHF_OS_NONCONFORMING
            flag_strings.append('OS_NONCONFORMING')
        if flags & 0x200:  # SHF_GROUP
            flag_strings.append('GROUP')
        if flags & 0x400:  # SHF_TLS
            flag_strings.append('TLS')

        return flag_strings if flag_strings else ['NONE']

    def _extract_section_data(self, section) -> Dict:
        """Extract data from a single section."""
        try:
            header = section.header

            # Get section name (handle empty names)
            section_name = section.name if section.name else f"<unnamed_{section.header.get('sh_name', 0)}>"

            # Get section type and map to enum
            sh_type_str = header.get('sh_type', 'SHT_NULL')
            section_type_enum = self._map_section_type(sh_type_str)
            section_type_str = sh_type_str.replace('SHT_', '') if sh_type_str.startswith('SHT_') else sh_type_str

            # Get section properties
            section_flags = header.get('sh_flags', 0)
            section_flags_str = self._decode_section_flags(section_flags)
            section_addr = header.get('sh_addr', 0)
            section_offset = header.get('sh_offset', 0)
            section_size = header.get('sh_size', 0)
            section_link = header.get('sh_link', 0)
            section_info = header.get('sh_info', 0)
            section_addralign = header.get('sh_addralign', 0)
            section_entsize = header.get('sh_entsize', 0)

            # Calculate entropy and hashes for section data
            section_entropy = 0.0
            section_sha256 = ""
            section_md5 = ""

            try:
                if section_size > 0 and section_type_str != 'NOBITS':
                    section_data = section.data()
                    if section_data:
                        # Calculate entropy
                        section_entropy = self._calculate_entropy(section_data)

                        # Calculate hashes
                        section_sha256 = hashlib.sha256(section_data).hexdigest()
                        section_md5 = hashlib.md5(section_data).hexdigest()
            except Exception as e:
                self.log.warning(f"Could not read section '{section_name}' data: {e}")
                section_entropy = 0.0
                section_sha256 = ""
                section_md5 = ""

            return ELFSection(
                section_name=section_name,
                section_type=section_type_enum,
                section_type_str=section_type_str,
                section_flags=section_flags,
                section_flags_str=section_flags_str,
                section_addr=section_addr,
                section_offset=section_offset,
                section_size=section_size,
                section_link=section_link,
                section_info=section_info,
                section_addralign=section_addralign,
                section_entsize=section_entsize,
                section_entropy=section_entropy,
                section_sha256=section_sha256,
                section_md5=section_md5
            )

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting section data: {e}")
            return None

    def tag(self):
        return Tag.ELF_SECTIONS.value if hasattr(Tag, 'ELF_SECTIONS') else "elf_sections"

    def extract(self):
        try:
            self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

            def extract_data(elf):
                sections_data = []

                # Iterate through all sections with per-section error handling
                for section_index, section in enumerate(elf.iter_sections()):
                    try:
                        section_data = self._extract_section_data(section)
                        if section_data:
                            sections_data.append(section_data)
                        else:
                            self.log.warning(f"Failed to extract data for section {section_index}")
                    except Exception as e:
                        self.log.warning(f"Error processing section {section_index}: {e}")
                        # Continue processing other sections

                return sections_data

            if not self._is_elf_file():
                return None

            result = self._with_elf_file(extract_data)
            if result is None:
                return None

            self.elf_sections = result
            return self.elf_sections

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting ELF sections {self.hash.sha256}: {e}")
            return None

    def prepare_export_data(self, exporter_type: str) -> Any:
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

        if exporter_type == "ElasticsearchExporter":
            return self.elf_sections
        elif exporter_type == "ClickHouseExporter":
            try:
                if not self.elf_sections:
                    return None

                # Prepare data arrays for all sections
                data = []
                current_time = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
                for section in self.elf_sections:
                    row = [
                        self.sha256,
                        self.md5,
                        self.sha1,
                        section.section_name,
                        section.section_type,
                        section.section_type_str,
                        section.section_flags,
                        section.section_flags_str,
                        section.section_addr,
                        section.section_offset,
                        section.section_size,
                        section.section_link,
                        section.section_info,
                        section.section_addralign,
                        section.section_entsize,
                        section.section_entropy,
                        section.section_sha256,
                        section.section_md5,
                        current_time
                    ]
                    data.append(row)

                column_names = [
                    'sha256', 'md5', 'sha1',
                    'section_name', 'section_type', 'section_type_str',
                    'section_flags', 'section_flags_str',
                    'section_addr', 'section_offset', 'section_size',
                    'section_link', 'section_info', 'section_addralign', 'section_entsize',
                    'section_entropy', 'section_sha256', 'section_md5',
                    'analysis_date'
                ]

                column_type_names = [
                    'FixedString(64)', 'FixedString(32)', 'FixedString(40)',
                    'LowCardinality(String)',
                    "Enum8('NULL'=0, 'PROGBITS'=1, 'SYMTAB'=2, 'STRTAB'=3, 'RELA'=4, 'HASH'=5, 'DYNAMIC'=6, 'NOTE'=7, 'NOBITS'=8, 'REL'=9, 'DYNSYM'=11)",
                    'LowCardinality(String)',
                    'UInt64',
                    'Array(LowCardinality(String))',
                    'UInt64', 'UInt64', 'UInt64',
                    'UInt32', 'UInt32', 'UInt64', 'UInt64',
                    'Float64',
                    'FixedString(64)', 'FixedString(32)',
                    'DateTime64(3, \'UTC\')'
                ]

                if not data:
                    return None

                return (data, column_names, column_type_names)

            except Exception as e:
                self.log.error(f"Error preparing export data: {e}")
                raise

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