Xiang Liu

23 papers B 1C 3Misc 1Journal 10Unranked 8
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
npj Digit. Medicine
Lingzhong Meng, Jiangqiong Li, Xiang Liu, Yanhua Sun, Zuotian Li, Jinjin Cai, Ameya D. Parab, George Lu, Aishwarya Budhkar, Saravanan Kanakasabai, David C. Adams, Ziyue Liu, Xuhong Zhang, Jing Su
2024 J jnl
Comput. Biol. Medicine
Junhan Zhao, Xiang Liu, Hongping Tang, Xiyue Wang, Sen Yang, Donfang Liu, Yijiang Chen, Yingjie Victor Chen
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Zuotian Li, Xiang Liu, Ziyang Tang, Pengyue Zhang, Nanxin Jin, Michael Eadon, Qianqian Song, Yingjie Chen, Jing Su
2024 J jnl
J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc.
Zuotian Li, Xiang Liu, Ziyang Tang, Nanxin Jin, Pengyue Zhang, Michael Eadon, Qianqian Song, Yingjie Victor Chen, Jing Su
2024 J jnl
Briefings Bioinform.
Aishwarya Budhkar, Ziyang Tang, Xiang Liu, Xuhong Zhang, Jing Su, Qianqian Song
2023 J jnl
Briefings Bioinform.
Ziyang Tang, Xiang Liu, Zuotian Li, Tonglin Zhang, Baijian Yang, Jing Su, Qianqian Song
2021 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph.
Junhan Zhao, Xiang Liu, Chen Guo, Zhenyu Cheryl Qian, Yingjie Victor Chen
2020 conf
SmartCom
Weitao Tang, Xiang Liu, Huyunting Huang, Ziyang Tang, Tonglin Zhang, Baijian Yang
2020 C conf
ICMLA
Xiang Liu, Huyunting Huang, Weitao Tang, Tonglin Zhang, Baijian Yang
2020 C conf
ICMLA
Ziyang Tang, Xiang Liu, Baijian Yang
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Ziyang Tang, Xiang Liu, Guangyu Shen, Baijian Yang
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Junhan Zhao, Xiang Liu, Chen Guo, Zhenyu Cheryl Qian, Yingjie Victor Chen
2020 B conf
GLOBECOM
Huyunting Huang, Xiang Liu, Tonglin Zhang, Baijian Yang
2019 C conf
ICMLA
Xiang Liu, Ziyang Tang, Huyunting Huang, Tonglin Zhang, Baijian Yang
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Xiang Liu, Ziyang Tang, Huyunting Huang, Tonglin Zhang, Baijian Yang
2019 conf
BigDataSecurity/HPSC/IDS
Xiang Liu, Ziyang Tang, Baijian Yang
2019 conf
IEEE BigData
Xiang Liu, Huyunting Huang, Ziyang Tang, Tonglin Zhang, Baijian Yang
2019 Misc conf
SIGITE
Ziyang Tang, Xiang Liu, Yingjie Victor Chen, Baijian Yang
2019 conf
VAST
Chen Guo, Xiang Liu, Evie Cai, Yingjie Victor Chen, Zhenyu Cheryl Qian, Rui Li
2018 conf
IEEE BigData
Wanchih Chiang, Xiang Liu, Tonglin Zhang, Baijian Yang
2018 conf
DSC
Junhan Zhao, Xiang Liu, Yanqun Kuang, Yingjie Victor Chen, Baijian Yang
2018 conf
VAST
Junhan Zhao, Xiang Liu, Ryan Guan, Josephine Zhang, Baijian Yang, Zhenyu Qian, Yingjie Victor Chen
2017 conf
ICC
Peng Li, Huayi Fang, Xiang Liu, Baijian Yang
redb/extractors/extractor.py
← Index redb/extractors/extractor.py python
import hashlib
import inspect
from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod
from dataclasses import asdict
from functools import cached_property
from datetime import datetime, timezone
import math
from typing import Counter, List, Optional, Dict, Any, Tuple
from redb import settings
from redb.models.dataclasses import Hash
from .database_exporters import DatabaseExporter, ElasticsearchExporter, ClickHouseExporter, PrintExporter

class Extractor(metaclass=ABCMeta):
    def __init__(
        self,
        filepath: str,
        log: Any,
        exporters: Optional[List[DatabaseExporter]] = None,
        index_prefix: Optional[str] = None,
        source: Optional[str] = None,
        elastic_index: Optional[str] = None,
        known_benign: bool = False,
        known_malicious: bool = False,
        precomputed_hashes: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None,
    ):
        self.log = log
        self.log.debug(f"Creating {self.__class__.__name__}")
        self.filepath = filepath
        self.source = source
        self.exporters = exporters or []
        self.index_prefix = index_prefix if index_prefix else settings.ELASTIC_BINARIES_COLLECTION
        self.elastic_index = self.index_prefix + (elastic_index if elastic_index else "")
        self.known_benign = known_benign
        self.known_malicious = known_malicious

        # Use precomputed hashes if provided (e.g., from machofile, pefile)
        # Otherwise compute them from binary
        if precomputed_hashes:
            self.md5 = precomputed_hashes.get('md5') or precomputed_hashes.get('MD5')
            self.sha1 = precomputed_hashes.get('sha1') or precomputed_hashes.get('SHA1')
            self.sha256 = precomputed_hashes.get('sha256') or precomputed_hashes.get('SHA256')
        else:
            self.md5 = hashlib.md5(self.binary).hexdigest()
            self.sha1 = hashlib.sha1(self.binary).hexdigest()
            self.sha256 = hashlib.sha256(self.binary).hexdigest()
        self.hash = Hash(self.md5, self.sha1, self.sha256)

    @cached_property
    def binary(self):
        with open(self.filepath, "rb") as f:
            data = f.read()
        return data

    @property
    @abstractmethod
    def tag(self):
        pass

    @abstractmethod
    def extract(self):
        """
        this method defines the extracted data
        """

    @staticmethod
    def process_binary_string(s):
        # Remove \x00 padding
        s = s.rstrip(b"\x00")

        # Check if there are any non-printable characters
        has_non_printable = any(byte < 32 or byte > 126 for byte in s)

        if not has_non_printable:
            # If all characters are printable, decode the string
            return s.decode()
        else:
            # If there are non-printable characters, represent them as \xDD
            return "".join(
                [
                    f"\\x{byte:02x}" if byte < 32 or byte > 126 else chr(byte)
                    for byte in s
                ]
            )

    @staticmethod
    def remove_non_utf8(binary_string):
        decoded = b""
        for i in range(len(binary_string)):
            try:
                # Try to decode each byte
                char = binary_string[i : i + 1].decode("utf-8")
                decoded += char.encode("utf-8")
            except UnicodeDecodeError:
                # Skip this byte if it can't be decoded
                continue
        return decoded

    def calculate_entropy(self, data):
        """Calculate the entropy of a chunk of data.
        Based on pefile.SectionStructure.entropy_H.
        """
        # self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)
        if not data:
            return 0.0

        if type(data) == str:
            counts = Counter(data)
            frequencies = ((i / len(data)) for i in counts.values())
            return - sum(f * math.log(f, 2) for f in frequencies)
        else:
            occurences = Counter(bytearray(data))
            entropy = 0
            for x in occurences.values():
                p_x = float(x) / len(data)
                entropy -= p_x * math.log(p_x, 2)
            return entropy

    @abstractmethod
    def prepare_export_data(self, exporter_type: str) -> Tuple[List[Any], List[str], List[str]]:
        """
        Prepare data for specific export type
        Returns:
            Tuple containing:
            - data: List of values to insert
            - column_names: List of column names
            - column_type_names: List of column types
        """
        pass

    def export_data(self):
        """Export data to all configured exporters

        Returns:
            True: Export succeeded
            False: Export failed (actual error)
            None: No data to export (not an error, e.g., no overlay, no signature)
        """
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)
        success = True
        extracted_data = self.extract()

        if extracted_data is None:
            self.log.debug("extract() returned None, skipping export")
            return None  # No data to export, not a failure
            
        for exporter in self.exporters:
            if isinstance(exporter, PrintExporter):
                # For PrintExporter, we pass the extracted data directly
                success &= exporter.export(extracted_data)
            else:
                # Get the data prepared for this specific exporter type
                export_data = self.prepare_export_data(exporter.__class__.__name__)
                
                if export_data is None:
                    self.log.debug(f"prepare_export_data returned None for {exporter.__class__.__name__}")
                    return False
                
                if isinstance(exporter, ElasticsearchExporter):
                    success &= exporter.export(
                        export_data,
                        index=self.elastic_index,
                        tag=self.tag(),
                        hashes=asdict(self.hash),
                        known_benign=self.known_benign,
                        known_malicious=self.known_malicious
                    )
                elif isinstance(exporter, ClickHouseExporter):
                    # For ClickHouse, we need to pass the table name and the prepared data
                    success &= exporter.export(
                        export_data,
                        table=self.get_clickhouse_table(),
                        # Add these parameters explicitly
                        column_names=export_data[1] if isinstance(export_data, tuple) else None,
                        column_type_names=export_data[2] if isinstance(export_data, tuple) else None
                    )
                
        return success

    @abstractmethod
    def get_clickhouse_table(self) -> str:
        """Return the appropriate ClickHouse table name"""
        pass
    # def export_to_elastic(self, list_of_dataclasses, tag=None):
    #     self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

    #     if not isinstance(list_of_dataclasses, list):
    #         self.log.error("Called export_to_elastic wrongly")

    #     now_t = datetime.now(timezone.utc).strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
    #     for dataclass_ in list_of_dataclasses:
    #         if not settings.ELASTIC_CLIENT.ping():
    #             self.log.error("[CONNECTION ERROR] ping to elastic failed")
            
    #         # Convert dataclass to dict and filter out None values
    #         document = {k: v for k, v in asdict(dataclass_).items() if v is not None}
            
    #         if tag:
    #             document["tag"] = [tag, self.tag()]
    #         else:
    #             document["tag"] = self.tag()
    #         hashes = asdict(self.hash)
    #         document |= hashes
    #         document["timestamp_utc"] = now_t
    #         # document["source"] = self.source
    #         document["known_benign"] = self.known_benign
    #         document["known_malicious"] = self.known_malicious

    #         if "_id" in document:
    #             tmp_id = document.pop("_id") + document["sha256"]
    #             _id = hashlib.sha256(tmp_id.encode()).hexdigest()
    #         else:
    #             _id = document["sha256"]

    #         # self.log.debug(f"[DEBUG] about to export {type(document)} {document}")
    #         try:
    #             doc_dump = json.dumps(document)
    #         except TypeError as e:
    #             self.log.error(
    #                 f"Failed export of document. " f"full document: {document}"
    #             )
    #             raise e

    #         # body={"doc": doc_dump,
    #         #       "doc_as_upsert": True  # Create the document if it doesn't exist
    #         # }

    #         # Check if the index exists, and create it if it doesn't
    #         # if not settings.ELASTIC_CLIENT.indices.exists(index=self.elastic_index):
    #         #     settings.ELASTIC_CLIENT.indices.create(index=self.elastic_index)
    #         # pprint(doc_dump) #DEBUG
    #         # print("[DEBUG] _id: " + _id)
    #         # print("[DEBUG] index: " + self.elastic_index)
    #         settings.ELASTIC_CLIENT.index(
    #             index=self.elastic_index, id=_id, document=doc_dump
    #         )