Xiafen Zhang

25 papers A 1Journal 14Unranked 9
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
IEEE Access
Ziyang Cheng, Xiafen Zhang
2024 conf
ICMLCA
Xinlong Liu, Xiafen Zhang
2022 conf
ICCIR
Chen Fang, Xiafen Zhang
2022 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Learn. Syst.
Lai Wei, Fenfen Ji, Hao Liu, Rigui Zhou, Changming Zhu, Xiafen Zhang
2022 conf
ICCIR
Shan Zhao, Xiafen Zhang, Li Chen
2020 J jnl
Pattern Anal. Appl.
Changming Zhu, Chao Chen, Rigui Zhou, Lai Wei, Xiafen Zhang
2020 J jnl
Pattern Anal. Appl.
Lai Wei, Rigui Zhou, Changming Zhu, Xiafen Zhang, Jun Yin
2020 J jnl
Neurocomputing
Changming Zhu, Duoqian Miao, Zhe Wang, Rigui Zhou, Lai Wei, Xiafen Zhang
2019 J jnl
Knowl. Based Syst.
Lai Wei, Rigui Zhou, Jun Yin, Changming Zhu, Xiafen Zhang, Hao Liu
2019 J jnl
Neural Comput. Appl.
Changming Zhu, Zhe Wang, Rigui Zhou, Lai Wei, Xiafen Zhang, Yi Ding
2019 J jnl
Expert Syst. Appl.
Lai Wei, Rigui Zhou, Xiaofeng Wang, Changming Zhu, Jun Yin, Xiafen Zhang
2018 J jnl
Quantum Inf. Process.
Ri-Gui Zhou, XingAo Liu, Changming Zhu, Lai Wei, Xiafen Zhang, Hou Ian
2015 J jnl
J. Electronic Imaging
Xiafen Zhang, George Nagy
2014 J jnl
Int. J. Intell. Inf. Technol.
Xiafen Zhang, Vijayan Sugumaran
2012 J jnl
Pattern Recognit. Lett.
Xiafen Zhang, Yueting Zhuang
2012 conf
DRR
Xiafen Zhang, George Nagy
2011 A conf
ICDAR
George Nagy, Xiafen Zhang
2011 conf
HIP@ICDAR
Xiafen Zhang, George Nagy
2009 ch.
Methods and Applications for Advancing Distance Education Technologies
Yueting Zhuang, Xiafen Zhang, Weiming Lu, Fei Wu
2009 conf
PCM
Xiafen Zhang, Guangzhong Liu
2007 J jnl
Int. J. Distance Educ. Technol.
Yueting Zhuang, Xiafen Zhang, Weiming Lu, Fei Wu
2007 J jnl
J. Comput. Sci. Technol.
Xiafen Zhang, Yueting Zhuang, Jiangqin Wu, Fei Wu
2007 conf
MMM (1)
Xiafen Zhang, Yueting Zhuang
2005 conf
ICWL
Yueting Zhuang, Xiafen Zhang, Weiming Lu, Fei Wu
2004 conf
PCM (1)
Yueting Zhuang, Xiafen Zhang, Jiangqin Wu, Xiqun Lu
redb/extractors/elf_extractors/elf_notes.py
← Index redb/extractors/elf_extractors/elf_notes.py python
import inspect
import binascii
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 ELFNote


class ELFNotesExtractor(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_notes = []
        self.elastic_index = self.index_prefix + "-elf_notes"
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

    def _get_note_type_string(self, note_type: int, note_name: str) -> str:
        """Convert note type number to human-readable string."""

        # GNU-specific note types
        if note_name == "GNU":
            gnu_types = {
                1: "NT_GNU_ABI_TAG",
                2: "NT_GNU_HWCAP",
                3: "NT_GNU_BUILD_ID",
                4: "NT_GNU_GOLD_VERSION",
                5: "NT_GNU_PROPERTY_TYPE_0"
            }
            return gnu_types.get(note_type, f"NT_GNU_UNKNOWN_{note_type}")

        # Generic note types
        generic_types = {
            1: "NT_PRSTATUS",
            2: "NT_FPREGSET",
            3: "NT_PRPSINFO",
            4: "NT_TASKSTRUCT",
            5: "NT_AUXV",
            6: "NT_PSTATUS",
            7: "NT_FPREGS",
            8: "NT_PSINFO",
            9: "NT_PRCRED",
            10: "NT_UTSNAME",
            11: "NT_LWPSTATUS",
            12: "NT_LWPSINFO",
            13: "NT_PRFPXREG"
        }

        return generic_types.get(note_type, f"NT_UNKNOWN_{note_type}")

    def _format_note_description(self, note_desc, note_type: int, note_name: str) -> str:
        """Format note description based on type for human readability."""
        try:
            if not note_desc:
                return ""

            # Handle build ID specifically (common case)
            if note_name == "GNU" and note_type == 3:  # NT_GNU_BUILD_ID
                if isinstance(note_desc, bytes):
                    return binascii.hexlify(note_desc).decode('ascii')
                return str(note_desc)

            # Handle ABI tag
            if note_name == "GNU" and note_type == 1:  # NT_GNU_ABI_TAG
                if isinstance(note_desc, bytes) and len(note_desc) >= 16:
                    # ABI tag contains OS, major, minor, subminor
                    import struct
                    try:
                        os_val, major, minor, subminor = struct.unpack('<IIII', note_desc[:16])
                        os_names = {0: "Linux", 1: "GNU", 2: "Solaris", 3: "FreeBSD"}
                        os_name = os_names.get(os_val, f"OS_{os_val}")
                        return f"{os_name} {major}.{minor}.{subminor}"
                    except:
                        pass

            # For binary data, convert to hex
            if isinstance(note_desc, bytes):
                # Limit size for very large descriptions
                if len(note_desc) > 256:
                    return binascii.hexlify(note_desc[:256]).decode('ascii') + "..."
                return binascii.hexlify(note_desc).decode('ascii')

            # For string data
            if isinstance(note_desc, str):
                return note_desc

            # Fallback
            return str(note_desc)

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error formatting note description: {e}")
            return str(note_desc) if note_desc else ""

    def _extract_note_data(self, note, section_name: str) -> ELFNote:
        """Extract data from a single note entry."""
        try:
            # Get note properties
            note_name = note.get('n_name', '').rstrip('\x00') if note.get('n_name') else ""
            note_type_raw = note.get('n_type', 0)
            note_desc_raw = note.get('n_desc', b'')

            # Handle note_type - pyelftools may return string or int
            if isinstance(note_type_raw, str):
                # pyelftools returned the type as a string like 'NT_GNU_BUILD_ID'
                note_type_str = note_type_raw
                # Map known string types to integers
                note_type_map = {
                    'NT_GNU_ABI_TAG': 1,
                    'NT_GNU_HWCAP': 2,
                    'NT_GNU_BUILD_ID': 3,
                    'NT_GNU_GOLD_VERSION': 4,
                    'NT_GNU_PROPERTY_TYPE_0': 5,
                    'NT_PRSTATUS': 1,
                    'NT_FPREGSET': 2,
                    'NT_PRPSINFO': 3,
                    'NT_TASKSTRUCT': 4,
                    'NT_AUXV': 5,
                    'NT_PSTATUS': 6,
                    'NT_FPREGS': 7,
                    'NT_PSINFO': 8,
                    'NT_PRCRED': 9,
                    'NT_UTSNAME': 10,
                    'NT_LWPSTATUS': 11,
                    'NT_LWPSINFO': 12,
                    'NT_PRFPXREG': 13,
                }
                note_type = note_type_map.get(note_type_raw, 0)
            else:
                note_type = note_type_raw
                # Get human-readable type string
                note_type_str = self._get_note_type_string(note_type, note_name)

            # Format description
            note_desc = self._format_note_description(note_desc_raw, note_type, note_name)

            return ELFNote(
                note_name=note_name,
                note_type=note_type,
                note_type_str=note_type_str,
                note_desc=note_desc,
                note_section=section_name
            )

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

    def _extract_notes_from_sections(self, elf) -> List[Dict]:
        """Extract notes from note sections."""
        notes = []

        try:
            # Look for note sections
            for section in elf.iter_sections():
                if (section.name and
                    section.name.startswith('.note') and
                    hasattr(section, 'iter_notes')):

                    section_name = section.name
                    try:
                        for note in section.iter_notes():
                            note_data = self._extract_note_data(note, section_name)
                            if note_data:
                                notes.append(note_data)
                    except Exception as e:
                        self.log.debug(f"Could not process notes in section {section_name}: {e}")

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting notes from sections: {e}")

        return notes

    def _extract_notes_from_segments(self, elf) -> List[Dict]:
        """Extract notes from PT_NOTE segments."""
        notes = []

        try:
            # Look for PT_NOTE segments
            for segment in elf.iter_segments():
                if segment.header.get('p_type') == 'PT_NOTE':
                    segment_name = f"PT_NOTE_segment_{segment.header.get('p_offset', 0)}"

                    try:
                        if hasattr(segment, 'iter_notes'):
                            for note in segment.iter_notes():
                                note_data = self._extract_note_data(note, segment_name)
                                if note_data:
                                    notes.append(note_data)
                    except Exception as e:
                        self.log.debug(f"Could not process notes in segment: {e}")

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting notes from segments: {e}")

        return notes

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

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

            def extract_data(elf):
                all_notes = []

                # Extract notes from note sections
                section_notes = self._extract_notes_from_sections(elf)
                all_notes.extend(section_notes)

                # Extract notes from PT_NOTE segments
                segment_notes = self._extract_notes_from_segments(elf)
                all_notes.extend(segment_notes)

                # Remove duplicates (same note might appear in section and segment)
                unique_notes = []
                seen_notes = set()
                for note in all_notes:
                    note_key = (note.note_name, note.note_type, note.note_desc)
                    if note_key not in seen_notes:
                        seen_notes.add(note_key)
                        unique_notes.append(note)

                return unique_notes

            if not self._is_elf_file():
                return None

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

            self.elf_notes = result
            return self.elf_notes

        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting ELF notes {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_notes
        elif exporter_type == "ClickHouseExporter":
            try:
                # Return valid empty structure if no notes found
                # None is reserved for actual errors

                # Prepare data arrays for all notes
                data = []
                current_time = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
                for note in self.elf_notes:
                    row = [
                        self.sha256,
                        self.md5,
                        self.sha1,
                        note.note_name,
                        note.note_type,
                        note.note_type_str,
                        note.note_desc,
                        note.note_section,
                        current_time
                    ]
                    data.append(row)

                column_names = [
                    'sha256', 'md5', 'sha1',
                    'note_name', 'note_type', 'note_type_str',
                    'note_desc', 'note_section',
                    'analysis_date'
                ]

                if not data:
                    return None

                column_type_names = [
                    'FixedString(64)', 'FixedString(32)', 'FixedString(40)',
                    'LowCardinality(String)', 'UInt32', 'LowCardinality(String)',
                    'String CODEC(ZSTD(3))', '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_notes"