Wei Zhang

50 papers A* 1A 2B 7C 1Journal 26Unranked 12
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Zhengyi Kwan, Wei Zhang, Aik Beng Ng, Zhengkui Wang, Simon See
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Dhivya Dharshini Kannan, Wei Li, Wei Zhang, Jianbiao Wang, Zhi Wei Seh, Man-Fai Ng
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Hanwen Zhang, Ruichen Zhang, Wei Zhang, Dusit Niyato, Yonggang Wen
2025 conf
CAI
Yanghui Mo, Xin Lou, Mageshwaran Muthusamy, Wei Zhang, Indriyati Atmosukarto, Xunpei Sun
2025 J jnl
IEEE Internet Comput.
Sivaneasan Bala Krishnan, Kuan Tak Tan, Wei Zhang
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Yunyi Zhao, Wei Zhang, Cheng Xiang, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, Shuhua Gao
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Vijay Babu Pamshetti, Wei Zhang, Sumei Sun, Jie Zhang, Yonggang Wen, Qingyu Yan
2025 conf
CAI
Yunxiang Zhou, Xin Lou, Ying He, Wei Zhang, Indriyati Atmosukarto
2025 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Multim.
Zhengyi Kwan, Wei Zhang, Zhengkui Wang, Aik Beng Ng, Simon See
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Vijay Babu Pamshetti, Wei Zhang, King-Jet Tseng, Bor Kiat Ng, Qingyu Yan
2025 A* conf
ICLR
Shuo Ma, Yingwei Zhang, Yiqiang Chen, Hualei Wang, Yuan Jin, Wei Zhang, Ziyu Jia
2025 J jnl
IEEE Internet Things J.
Hanwen Zhang, Dusit Niyato, Wei Zhang, Changyuan Zhao, Hongyang Du, Abbas Jamalipour, Sumei Sun, Yiyang Pei
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Yunyi Zhao, Wei Zhang, Erhai Hu, Qingyu Alex Yan, Cheng Xiang, King-Jet Tseng, Dusit Niyato
2024 C conf
TENCON
Vijay Babu Pamshetti, Wei Zhang, Andy Man-Fai Ng, Qingyu Yan, Kuan Tak Tan
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Vijay Babu Pamshetti, Wei Zhang, Man-Fai Ng, Qingyu Yan, Kuan Tak Tan
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Zhengyi Kwan, Wei Zhang, Zhengkui Wang, Aik Beng Ng, Simon See
2024 conf
VTC Fall
Yunyi Zhao, Wei Zhang, Qingyu Yan, Man-Fai Ng, B. Sivaneasan, Cheng Xiang
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Hanwen Zhang, Dusit Niyato, Wei Zhang, Changyuan Zhao, Hongyang Du, Abbas Jamalipour, Sumei Sun, Yiyang Pei
2024 conf
BIBM
Yuwei Dai, Yingwei Zhang, Yiqiang Chen, Yang Gu, Yuan Jin, Wei Zhang
2023 B conf
SMC
Syabil Soedirman, Fang Liu, Zengyan Fan, Wei Zhang
2023 J jnl
CCF Trans. Pervasive Comput. Interact.
Fang Liu, Wei Zhang, Indriyati Atmosukarto, Teck Wei Low
2022 conf
ICC
Fang Liu, Teck Wei Low, Wei Zhang, Indriyati Atmosukarto
2022 J jnl
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw.
Pan Lai, Rui Fan, Xiao Zhang, Wei Zhang, Fang Liu, Joey Tianyi Zhou
2021 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Cloud Comput.
Wei Zhang, Yonggang Wen, Loi Lei Lai, Fang Liu, Rui Fan
2021 J jnl
IEEE Internet Things J.
Wei Zhang, Yonggang Wen, King-Jet Tseng, Guangyu Jin
2021 J jnl
IEEE Internet Things J.
Jie Li, Wei Zhang, Guanyu Gao, Yonggang Wen, Guangyu Jin, George I. Christopoulos
2021 J jnl
IEEE Netw.
Wei Zhang, Jie Li, Yonggang Wen, Yong Luo
2021 conf
BuildSys
Wei Zhang, Fang Liu, Yonggang Wen, Bernard Nee
2021 B conf
GLOBECOM
Wei Zhang, Yonggang Wen, Fang Liu
2020 conf
BuildSys
Jie Li, Yonggang Wen, Wei Zhang
2020 conf
ISC2
Yifeng Pan, Fang Liu, Ji Yang, Wei Zhang, Yong Li, Chun Sing Lai, Xiaomei Wu, Loi Lei Lai, Binzhuo Hong
2020 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Serv. Comput.
Wei Zhang, Yonggang Wen, Loi Lei Lai, Fang Liu, Rui Fan
2019 A conf
ICME
Fang Liu, Wei Zhang, Yonggang Wen
2019 J jnl
IEEE Internet Things J.
Wei Zhang, Weizheng Hu, Yonggang Wen
2018 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol.
Wei Zhang, Rui Fan, Yonggang Wen, Fang Liu
2018 J jnl
Comput. Commun.
Wei Zhang, Yonggang Wen, Fang Liu, Yiqiang Chen, Rui Fan
2017 J jnl
ACM Trans. Intell. Syst. Technol.
Wei Zhang, Rui Fan, Yonggang Wen, Fang Liu
2017 conf
SPAWC
Wei Zhang, Yonggang Wen, Ying Jun Zhang, Fang Liu, Rui Fan
2017 J jnl
IEEE Internet Things J.
Weizheng Hu, Wei Zhang, Han Hu, Yonggang Wen, King-Jet Tseng
2016
Wei Zhang
2016 A conf
IPDPS
Pan Lai, Rui Fan, Wei Zhang, Fang Liu
2015 B conf
AINA
Fang Liu, Wee Keong Ng, Wei Zhang
2015 B conf
AINA
Fang Liu, Wee Keong Ng, Wei Zhang
2015 B conf
CLOUD
Fang Liu, Wee Keong Ng, Wei Zhang
2015 B conf
ICPADS
Wei Zhang, Rui Fan, Fang Liu, Pan Lai
2015 conf
BigDataService
Fang Liu, Wee Keong Ng, Wei Zhang
2015 J jnl
CoRR
Pan Lai, Rui Fan, Wei Zhang, Fang Liu
2014 conf
SpringSim (HPS)
Wei Zhang, Fang Liu, Rui Fan
2014 conf
IEEE CLOUD
Fang Liu, Wee Keong Ng, Wei Zhang
2014 B conf
IC2E
Fang Liu, Wee Keong Ng, Wei Zhang, Do Hoang Giang, Shuguo Han
redb/extractors/elf_extractor.py
← Index redb/extractors/elf_extractor.py python
import logging
from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod
import inspect

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

from redb.extractors.extractor import Extractor

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)


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

    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
        )
        # Store ELF object if provided, otherwise we'll create it per-operation for security
        self._provided_elf = elf
        self._elf_file_valid = None  # Cache validity check

    def _with_elf_file(self, operation):
        """Safely execute an operation with an ELF file using context manager.

        Args:
            operation: A callable that takes an ELFFile object and returns a result

        Returns:
            The result of the operation, or None if an error occurred
        """
        if self._provided_elf:
            try:
                return operation(self._provided_elf)
            except ELFError as e:
                if "String Table not found" in str(e):
                    self.log.warning(f"String table missing in ELF {self.hash.sha256}: {e}")
                    return None
                else:
                    self.log.error(f"ELF format error {self.hash.sha256} Full error: {e}")
                    return None
            except Exception as e:
                self.log.error(f"Error processing ELF file {self.hash.sha256} Full error: {e}")
                return None

        try:
            with open(self.filepath, 'rb') as f:
                elf = ELFFile(f)
                if not elf:
                    raise ELFError("Empty file?")
                return operation(elf)
        except ELFError as e:
            if "String Table not found" in str(e):
                self.log.warning(f"String table missing in ELF {self.hash.sha256}: {e}")
                return None
            else:
                self.log.error(f"ELF format error {self.hash.sha256} Full error: {e}")
                return None
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error reading ELF file {self.hash.sha256} Full error: {e}")
            return None

    def _is_elf_file(self):
        """Check if the file is a valid ELF binary."""
        if self._elf_file_valid is not None:
            return self._elf_file_valid

        def check_elf_validity(elf):
            # pyelftools ELFFile object existing means it's valid ELF
            # Just check that we can access the header
            header = elf.header
            return header is not None

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_elf_validity)
            self._elf_file_valid = bool(result)
            return self._elf_file_valid
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking ELF file: {e}")
            self._elf_file_valid = False
            return False

    def _is_64bit(self):
        """Check if the ELF binary is 64-bit."""
        def check_64bit(elf):
            return elf.header.get('e_ident', {}).get('EI_CLASS') == 'ELFCLASS64'

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_64bit)
            return bool(result)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking ELF bitness: {e}")
            return False

    def _is_stripped(self):
        """Check if the ELF binary is stripped (no symbol table)."""
        def check_stripped(elf):
            # Look for symbol table sections
            for section in elf.iter_sections():
                if section.name in ['.symtab', '.strtab']:
                    return False
            return True

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_stripped)
            return result if result is not None else True
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking if ELF is stripped: {e}")
            return True

    def _has_debug_info(self):
        """Check if the ELF binary contains debug information."""
        def check_debug_info(elf):
            # Look for debug sections
            debug_sections = ['.debug_info', '.debug_line', '.debug_str', '.debug_abbrev']
            for section in elf.iter_sections():
                if section.name in debug_sections:
                    return True
            return False

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_debug_info)
            return bool(result)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking debug info: {e}")
            return False

    def _get_architecture(self):
        """Get the architecture of the ELF binary."""
        def get_arch(elf):
            machine = elf.header.get('e_machine', 'EM_NONE')

            # Map common machine types to readable names
            arch_map = {
                'EM_386': 'x86',
                'EM_X86_64': 'x86_64',
                'EM_ARM': 'ARM',
                'EM_AARCH64': 'ARM64',
                'EM_MIPS': 'MIPS',
                'EM_PPC': 'PowerPC',
                'EM_PPC64': 'PowerPC64',
                'EM_SPARC': 'SPARC',
                'EM_RISCV': 'RISC-V'
            }

            return arch_map.get(machine, machine)

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(get_arch)
            return result if result is not None else "unknown"
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting architecture: {e}")
            return "unknown"

    def _get_endianness(self):
        """Get the endianness of the ELF binary."""
        def get_endian(elf):
            data_encoding = elf.header.get('e_ident', {}).get('EI_DATA')
            if data_encoding == 'ELFDATA2LSB':
                return "little"
            elif data_encoding == 'ELFDATA2MSB':
                return "big"
            return "unknown"

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(get_endian)
            return result if result is not None else "unknown"
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting endianness: {e}")
            return "unknown"

    def _get_file_type(self):
        """Get the file type of the ELF binary."""
        def get_file_type(elf):
            etype = elf.header.get('e_type', 'ET_NONE')

            # Map file types to readable names
            type_map = {
                'ET_NONE': 'none',
                'ET_REL': 'relocatable',
                'ET_EXEC': 'executable',
                'ET_DYN': 'shared_object',
                'ET_CORE': 'core_dump'
            }

            return type_map.get(etype, etype)

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(get_file_type)
            return result if result is not None else "unknown"
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting file type: {e}")
            return "unknown"

    def _is_pie(self):
        """Check if the ELF binary is position-independent executable."""
        def check_pie(elf):
            # PIE binaries are typically ET_DYN type
            etype = elf.header.get('e_type', 'ET_NONE')
            if etype == 'ET_DYN':
                # Check if it has an entry point (executable) vs library
                entry_point = elf.header.get('e_entry', 0)
                return entry_point > 0
            return False

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_pie)
            return bool(result)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking PIE: {e}")
            return False

    def _has_stack_protection(self):
        """Check if the binary has stack protection (canaries)."""
        def check_stack_protection(elf):
            # Look for stack protection symbols
            stack_symbols = ['__stack_chk_fail', '__stack_chk_guard']

            for section in elf.iter_sections():
                if hasattr(section, 'iter_symbols'):
                    for symbol in section.iter_symbols():
                        if symbol.name in stack_symbols:
                            return True
            return False

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_stack_protection)
            return bool(result)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking stack protection: {e}")
            return False

    def _has_nx_bit(self):
        """Check if the binary has NX bit (non-executable stack)."""
        def check_nx_bit(elf):
            # Look for GNU_STACK segment
            for segment in elf.iter_segments():
                if segment.header.get('p_type') == 'PT_GNU_STACK':
                    flags = segment.header.get('p_flags', 0)
                    # Check if execute flag is NOT set (NX enabled)
                    return not (flags & 0x1)  # PF_X = 0x1
            return False

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_nx_bit)
            return bool(result)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking NX bit: {e}")
            return False

    def _has_relro(self):
        """Check if the binary has RELRO (Relocation Read-Only)."""
        def check_relro(elf):
            # Look for GNU_RELRO segment
            for segment in elf.iter_segments():
                if segment.header.get('p_type') == 'PT_GNU_RELRO':
                    return True
            return False

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(check_relro)
            return bool(result)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error checking RELRO: {e}")
            return False

    def _get_build_id(self):
        """Extract build ID from notes section."""
        def get_build_id(elf):
            # Look for build ID in notes sections
            for section in elf.iter_sections():
                if section.name == '.note.gnu.build-id':
                    for note in section.iter_notes():
                        if note['n_type'] == 'NT_GNU_BUILD_ID':
                            # Convert bytes to hex string
                            build_id = note['n_desc']
                            if isinstance(build_id, bytes):
                                return build_id.hex()
                            return str(build_id)
            return None

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(get_build_id)
            return result
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting build ID: {e}")
            return None

    def _count_sections(self):
        """Count the number of sections in the ELF file."""
        def count_sections(elf):
            return elf.header.get('e_shnum', 0)

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(count_sections)
            return result if result is not None else 0
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error counting sections: {e}")
            return 0

    def _count_segments(self):
        """Count the number of segments (program headers) in the ELF file."""
        def count_segments(elf):
            return elf.header.get('e_phnum', 0)

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(count_segments)
            return result if result is not None else 0
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error counting segments: {e}")
            return 0

    def _count_symbols(self):
        """Count the total number of symbols in symbol tables."""
        def count_symbols(elf):
            symbol_count = 0
            for section in elf.iter_sections():
                if hasattr(section, 'iter_symbols'):
                    symbol_count += section.num_symbols()
            return symbol_count

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(count_symbols)
            return result if result is not None else 0
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error counting symbols: {e}")
            return 0

    def _get_dependencies(self):
        """Get list of dynamic dependencies."""
        def get_dependencies(elf):
            dependencies = []
            dynamic_section = elf.get_section_by_name('.dynamic')
            if dynamic_section:
                for tag in dynamic_section.iter_tags():
                    if tag.entry.d_tag == 'DT_NEEDED':
                        dependencies.append(tag.needed)
            return dependencies

        try:
            result = self._with_elf_file(get_dependencies)
            return result if result is not None else []
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting dependencies: {e}")
            return []