Xia Li

34 papers A* 3B 2C 1Journal 2Unranked 26
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 A* conf
AAAI
Xia Li, Wenjing Pan
2024 A* conf
AAAI
Yongqiang Zheng, Xia Li
2023 conf
IALP
Wenjing Pan, Yuan Chen, Zhiheng Liu, Xia Li, Zhuopeng Xu
2023 conf
ICCPR
Junbin Zhuang, Junyi He, Xia Li
2023 J jnl
Inf. Sci.
Yongqiang Zheng, Xia Li, Jian-Yun Nie
2022 conf
CCL
Junyi He, Junbin Zhuang, Xia Li
2022 conf
CCL
Yangjia Zheng, Xia Li, Junteng Ma, Yuan Chen
2022 conf
IALP
Rui Xu, Wenjing Pan, Canhua Chen, Xiaoyin Chen, Shilin Lin, Xia Li
2022 conf
IALP
Junbin Zhuang, Yixuan Ren, Xia Li, Zhanpeng Liang
2021 conf
IALP
Zebin Li, Junteng Ma, Xia Li, Xin Pan
2021 B conf
CoNLL
Xia Li, Junyi He
2021 conf
IALP
Junyi He, Xia Li, Han Su, Xinyin Chen, Hao Yang, Minghao Chen
2021 conf
CCIR
Junteng Ma, Xia Li, Minping Chen, Weigeng Yang
2021 A* conf
KDD
Zeyi Wen, Zhishang Zhou, Hanfeng Liu, Bingsheng He, Xia Li, Jian Chen
2021 conf
IALP
Guixin Su, Junyi He, Xia Li, Meixiu Lu, Hanqun Yang
2020 conf
ICEIT
Meixiu Lu, Jianda Liu, Xia Li
2020 conf
CLSW
Jianxun Ding, Yongqiang Zheng, Xia Li, Minping Chen, Junshan Huang
2020 conf
CNCL
Xia Li, Minping Chen
2020 conf
CCIR
Yongqiang Zheng, Xia Li, Guixin Su, Junteng Ma, Chaolin Ning
2020 J jnl
Knowl. Based Syst.
Xia Li, Minping Chen, Jian-Yun Nie
2020 B conf
COLING
Minping Chen, Xia Li
2019 conf
HBAI@IJCAI
Xinmeng Zhang, XinGuang Li, Shengyi Jiang, Xia Li, Bolin Xie
2019 conf
ICPCSEE (1)
Xinmeng Zhang, XinGuang Li, Shengyi Jiang, Xia Li, Bolin Xie
2019 conf
IALP
Junteng Ma, Shihao Qin, Lan Su, Xia Li, Lixian Xiao
2019 conf
CCMT
Junteng Ma, Shihao Qin, Minping Chen, Xia Li
2019 conf
CCIR
Zihang Zeng, Junteng Ma, Minping Chen, Xia Li
2018 conf
CCL
Xia Li, Minping Chen, Jianyun Nie, Zhenxing Liu, Ziheng Feng, Yingdan Cai
2018 C conf
CIS
Zhanyuan Yang, Hanfeng Liu, Minping Chen, Xia Li
2018 conf
IALP
Minping Chen, Xia Li
2018 conf
IALP
Xia Li, Zhanyuan Yang, Minping Chen, Wenhe Feng
2017 conf
NLPCC
Xia Li, Hanfeng Liu, Shengyi Jiang
2017 conf
IALP
Xia Li, Zihang Zeng, Jianshu Zhang, Shengyi Jiang
2016 conf
SETE@ICWL
Xia Li, Jianda Liu
2016 conf
SMP
Xinmeng Zhang, Yuefeng Li, Shengyi Jiang, Bailin Xie, Xia Li, Qiansheng Zhang, Meixiu Lu
redb/extractors/elf_extractors/elf_exports.py
← Index redb/extractors/elf_extractors/elf_exports.py python
import inspect
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from typing import Any, List, Set

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 ELFExport


class ELFExportExtractor(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_exports = None
        self.elastic_index = self.index_prefix + "-elf_exports"
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

    def _get_exported_functions_from_symbols(self, elf) -> Set[str]:
        """Extract exported functions from symbol tables."""
        exported_functions = set()

        try:
            # Check both static (.symtab) and dynamic (.dynsym) symbol tables
            symbol_sections = ['.symtab', '.dynsym']

            for section_name in symbol_sections:
                section = elf.get_section_by_name(section_name)
                if not section or not hasattr(section, 'iter_symbols'):
                    continue

                for symbol in section.iter_symbols():
                    # Check if symbol is exported (defined and globally visible)
                    if (symbol.name and
                        symbol.entry.get('st_shndx', 0) != 'SHN_UNDEF' and  # Not undefined
                        symbol.entry.get('st_info', {}).get('bind') in ['STB_GLOBAL', 'STB_WEAK'] and  # Global or weak binding
                        symbol.entry.get('st_info', {}).get('type') in ['STT_FUNC', 'STT_OBJECT']):  # Function or object

                        # Additional checks for meaningful exports
                        if (symbol.entry.get('st_value', 0) > 0 or  # Has a value
                            symbol.entry.get('st_size', 0) > 0):    # Has a size
                            exported_functions.add(symbol.name)

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting exported functions from symbols: {e}")

        return exported_functions

    def _get_exported_functions_from_dynamic_section(self, elf) -> Set[str]:
        """Extract exported functions information from dynamic section."""
        exported_functions = set()

        try:
            # Get the dynamic section
            dynamic_section = elf.get_section_by_name('.dynamic')
            if not dynamic_section:
                return exported_functions

            # Look for version definition sections that might indicate exports
            # This is complementary to symbol table analysis
            for tag in dynamic_section.iter_tags():
                if tag.entry.d_tag == 'DT_SONAME':
                    # If it has a SONAME, it's likely a shared library with exports
                    # The actual exports are still found in symbol tables
                    pass

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting exports from dynamic section: {e}")

        return exported_functions

    def _filter_meaningful_exports(self, exports: Set[str]) -> Set[str]:
        """Filter out compiler-generated and internal symbols to focus on meaningful exports."""
        filtered_exports = set()

        # Common patterns to exclude (compiler-generated, internal symbols)
        exclude_patterns = [
            '_start',
            '_init',
            '_fini',
            '__libc_',
            '__gmon_start__',
            '_IO_stdin_used',
            '__data_start',
            '__bss_start',
            '_edata',
            '_end',
            '__TMC_END__',
            '_ITM_deregisterTMCloneTable',
            '_ITM_registerTMCloneTable',
            '__cxa_finalize',
            '__gxx_personality_v0',
            '_Jv_RegisterClasses'
        ]

        for export in exports:
            # Skip empty or very short names
            if not export or len(export) < 2:
                continue

            # Skip symbols that match exclude patterns
            skip = False
            for pattern in exclude_patterns:
                if export.startswith(pattern):
                    skip = True
                    break

            # Skip symbols that look like internal mangled names (but keep reasonable C++ names)
            if export.startswith('_Z') and len(export) > 50:  # Very long mangled names
                skip = True

            if not skip:
                filtered_exports.add(export)

        return filtered_exports

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

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

            def extract_data(elf):
                # Extract exported functions from multiple sources
                exported_functions = set()

                # From symbol tables (primary source)
                symbol_exports = self._get_exported_functions_from_symbols(elf)
                exported_functions.update(symbol_exports)

                # From dynamic section (supplementary)
                dynamic_exports = self._get_exported_functions_from_dynamic_section(elf)
                exported_functions.update(dynamic_exports)

                # Filter out compiler-generated and internal symbols
                meaningful_exports = self._filter_meaningful_exports(exported_functions)

                # Convert to sorted list for consistent output
                export_functions_list = sorted(list(meaningful_exports))

                # Return ELFExport dataclass
                return ELFExport(
                    elf_exports_total=len(export_functions_list),
                    elf_export_functions=export_functions_list,
                )

            if not self._is_elf_file():
                return None

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

            self.elf_exports = result
            return self.elf_exports

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting ELF exports {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_exports
        elif exporter_type == "ClickHouseExporter":
            try:
                if not self.elf_exports:
                    return None

                # Prepare data array
                data = [[
                    self.sha256,
                    self.md5,
                    self.sha1,
                    self.elf_exports.elf_exports_total,
                    self.elf_exports.elf_export_functions,
                    datetime.now(timezone.utc)
                ]]

                column_names = [
                    'sha256', 'md5', 'sha1',
                    'elf_exports_total',
                    'elf_export_functions',
                    'analysis_date'
                ]

                if not data:
                    return None

                column_type_names = [
                    'FixedString(64)', 'FixedString(32)', 'FixedString(40)',
                    'UInt32',
                    'Array(LowCardinality(String))',
                    'DateTime64(3, \'UTC\')'
                ]

                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_exports"