Xiangxiang Zhang

25 papers C 1Journal 21Unranked 3
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Lingzhuang Sun, Yuxia Zhu, Ruitong Liu, Hao Liang, Zheng Sun, Caijun Jia, Honghao He, Yuchen Wu, Siyuan Li, Jingxuan Wei, Xiangxiang Zhang, Bihui Yu, Wentao Zhang
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Lingzhuang Sun, Ruitong Liu, Yuxia Zhu, Xiaohan Xu, Jingxuan Wei, Xiangxiang Zhang, Bihui Yu, Wentao Zhang
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Xiangxiang Zhang, Caijun Jia, Siyuan Li, Dingyu He, Xiya Xiong, Zheng Sun, Honghao He, Yuchen Wu, Bihui Yu, Linzhuang Sun, Cheng Tan, Jingxuan Wei
2026 J jnl
Inf. Fusion
You Ma, Lin Chai, Xiangxiang Zhang, Yuhan Wang
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Jingxuan Wei, Honghao He, Caijun Jia, Siyuan Li, Zheng Sun, Yuhang Xu, Yuanyuan Lin, Linzhuang Sun, Yuchen Wu, Bihui Yu, Xiangxiang Zhang, Cheng Tan
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Jingxuan Wei, Caijun Jia, Qi Chen, Yujun Cai, Linzhuang Sun, Xiangxiang Zhang, Gaowei Wu, Bihui Yu
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Xiangxiang Zhang, Jingxuan Wei, Donghong Zhong, Qi Chen, Caijun Jia, Cheng Tan, Jinming Gu, Xiaobo Qin, Zhiping Liu, Liang Hu, Tong Sun, Yuchen Wu, Zewei Sun, Chenwei Lou, Hua Zheng, Tianyang Zhan, Changbao Wang, Shuangzhi Wu, Zefa Lin, Chang Guo, Sihang Yuan, Riwei Chen, Shixiong Zhao, Yingping Zhang, Gaowei Wu, Bihui Yu, Jiahui Wu, Zhehui Zhao, Qianqian Liu, Ruofeng Tang, Xingyue Huang, Bing Zhao, Mengyang Zhang, Youqiang Zhou
2024 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas.
Xiaofen Li, Lei Zhang, Hao Xie, Ze Shang, Xiangxiang Zhang, Xue Qi, Meimei Lu, Qiulin Tan
2024 J jnl
Biomed. Signal Process. Control.
Tao Zhou, Qi Li, Huiling Lu, Long Liu, Xiangxiang Zhang
2023 conf
MMBD
Chen Chen, Donghua Zhao, Yao Wu, Yanhao Zheng, Yu Deng, Xiangxiang Zhang, Min Gan, Xijun Lai
2023 J jnl
Comput. Biol. Medicine
Tao Zhou, Qianru Cheng, Huiling Lu, Qi Li, Xiangxiang Zhang, Shi Qiu
2023 J jnl
Appl. Intell.
Xiangxiang Zhang, Yichao Wang
2023 J jnl
Inf. Fusion
Tao Zhou, Qi Li, Huiling Lu, Qianru Cheng, Xiangxiang Zhang
2023 J jnl
Comput. Biol. Medicine
Tao Zhou, Xiangxiang Zhang, Huiling Lu, Qi Li, Long Liu, Huiyu Zhou
2023 J jnl
J. Electronic Imaging
Xiangxiang Zhang, Chunyuan Wang, Jie Jin, Li Huang
2023 J jnl
IEEE CAA J. Autom. Sinica
Wenkai Hu, Xiangxiang Zhang, Jiandong Wang, Guang Yang, Yuxin Cai
2023 conf
ICPS
Xiangxiang Zhang, Wenkai Hu, Ahmad W. Al-Dabbagh, Weihua Cao
2023 J jnl
Appl. Intell.
Yin Zhang, Jianguo Ding, Wenhao Xie, Yu Chang, Xiangxiang Zhang, Yumeng Chen
2022 J jnl
Entropy
Xiangxiang Zhang, Wenkai Hu, Fan Yang
2021 J jnl
J. Intell. Fuzzy Syst.
Xiangxiang Zhang, Liu Chang, Jingwen Luo, Jia Wu
2021 J jnl
Qual. Reliab. Eng. Int.
Xiangxiang Zhang, Jun Yang, Xuefeng Kong
2020 J jnl
Complex.
Na Zhang, Xiangxiang Zhang, Ming Lei, Yingjie Yang
2019 conf
ICCC Workshops
Xiangxiang Zhang, Tao Luo
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Yushuai Hu, Yaochu Jin, Runhua Li, Xiangxiang Zhang
2017 C conf
ICIS
Xiaoshuang Liu, Zhijun Fang, Xiang Liu, Xiangxiang Zhang, Jianrong Gu, Qi Xu
redb/extractors/pe_extractors/pe_dotnet.py
← Index redb/extractors/pe_extractors/pe_dotnet.py python
import inspect
import pefile
from dotnetfile import DotNetPE

import base64
from hashlib import md5
from pprint import pprint

import magic
import pefile

from redb.extractors.enum import Tag
from redb.extractors.pe_extractor import PEExtractor
from redb.models.dataclasses import PEDotNet
from datetime import datetime, timezone
import json
from typing import Any


class PEDotNetExtractor(PEExtractor):

    def __init__(
        self,
        filepath,
        log,
        exporters=None,
        index_prefix=None,
        elastic_index=None,
        known_benign=False,
        known_malicious=False,
        pe=None,
    ):
        super().__init__(
            filepath,
            log,
            exporters,
            index_prefix,
            elastic_index,
            known_benign,
            known_malicious,
            pe,
        )
        # self.pe_features = None
        self.elastic_index = self.index_prefix + "-pe_dotnet"
        self.dotnet, self.error = self._generate_dotnetfile_object()
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

    def _decode_assembly_flags(self, flag_value):
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)
        ASSEMBLY_FLAGS = {
            0x00000001: "COMIMAGE_FLAGS_ILONLY",
            0x00000002: "COMIMAGE_FLAGS_32BITREQUIRED",
            0x00000004: "COMIMAGE_FLAGS_IL_LIBRARY",
            0x00000008: "COMIMAGE_FLAGS_STRONGNAMESIGNED",
            0x00000010: "COMIMAGE_FLAGS_NATIVE_ENTRYPOINT",
            0x00010000: "COMIMAGE_FLAGS_TRACKDEBUGDATA",
            0x00020000: "COMIMAGE_FLAGS_32BITPREFERRED",
        }
        flags = []
        for bit, name in ASSEMBLY_FLAGS.items():
            if flag_value & bit:
                flags.append(name)
        return flags

    def _normalize_data(self, data):
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)
        if isinstance(data, str):
            return {"value": data}
        return data

    def _compute_md5(self, data):
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)
        if isinstance(data, str):
            # If it's a string, encode it to first
            return md5(data.encode("raw_unicode_escape")).hexdigest()
        elif not isinstance(data, bytes):
            # If it's neither string nor bytes, convert it to string and then to bytes
            return md5(str(data).encode("raw_unicode_escape")).hexdigest()
        else:
            return md5(data).hexdigest()

    def tag(self):
        return Tag.PE_DOTNET.value

    def extract(self):
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)
        metadata = {}

        if self.error:
            metadata["Corrupted"] = self.error.args[0]
            dotnet = PEDotNet(metadata)
            self.dotnet = dotnet  # Store for later use in prepare_export_data
            return dotnet  # Return the extracted data instead of exporting directly

        metadata["info"] = {}
        try:
            available_tables = self.dotnet.existent_metadata_tables()
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting metadata tables for {self.hash.sha256}: {e}")
            available_tables = []
            metadata["info"]["PotentiallyCorrupted"] = True

        # GUID extraction
        try:
            input_string = self.dotnet.guid_stream_guids[0].string_representation
            
            formatted_uuid = (
                f"{input_string[6:8]}{input_string[4:6]}{input_string[2:4]}{input_string[0:2]}"
                f"-{input_string[10:12]}{input_string[8:10]}"
                f"-{input_string[14:16]}{input_string[12:14]}"
                f"-{input_string[16:20]}"
                f"-{input_string[20:]}"
            )
            metadata["info"]["ModuleVersionID"] = formatted_uuid
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error extracting GUID for {self.hash.sha256}: {e}")

        # CLR Version
        try:
            metadata["info"]["CLRversion"] = self.dotnet.get_runtime_target_version()
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting CLR version for {self.hash.sha256}: {e}")

        # Module information
        try:
            if self.dotnet.metadata_table_exists("Module"):
                metadata["info"]["AssemblyModuleName"] = self.dotnet.Module.get_module_name()
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting module info for {self.hash.sha256}: {e}")

        # Basic properties
        try:
            metadata["info"].update({
                "IsNativeNgenImage": self.dotnet.is_native_image(),
                "IsMixedAssembly": self.dotnet.is_mixed_assembly(),
                "IsWindowsFormsApp": self.dotnet.is_windows_forms_app(),
                "EntryPointToken": self.dotnet.clr_header.EntryPointToken.value,
                "HasNativeEntryPoint": self.dotnet.has_native_entry_point(),
            })
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting basic properties for {self.hash.sha256}: {e}")

        # Assembly flags
        try:
            metadata["info"]["AssemblyFlags"] = self._decode_assembly_flags(
                self.dotnet.clr_header.Flags.value
            )
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting assembly flags for {self.hash.sha256}: {e}")

        # More Metadata/Info CLR Header
        try:
            metadata["info"]["NumOfStreams"] = self.dotnet.get_number_of_streams()
            # [TODO] The following two on VT are "RVA entry point"
            #  and "Resources va" respectively. To verify.
            metadata["info"][
                "ResourcesDirectoryAddress"
            ] = self.dotnet.clr_header.ResourcesDirectoryAddress.value
            metadata["info"][
                "ResourcesDirectorySize"
            ] = self.dotnet.clr_header.ResourcesDirectorySize.value
            metadata["info"][
                "StrongNameSignatureAddress"
            ] = self.dotnet.clr_header.StrongNameSignatureAddress.value
            metadata["info"][
                "StrongNameSignatureSize"
            ] = self.dotnet.clr_header.StrongNameSignatureSize.value
            metadata["info"][
                "CodeManagerTableAddress"
            ] = self.dotnet.clr_header.CodeManagerTableAddress.value
            metadata["info"][
                "CodeManagerTableSize"
            ] = self.dotnet.clr_header.CodeManagerTableSize.value
            metadata["info"][
                "VTableFixupsAddress"
            ] = self.dotnet.clr_header.VTableFixupsAddress.value
            metadata["info"][
                "VTableFixupsSize"
            ] = self.dotnet.clr_header.VTableFixupsSize.value
            metadata["info"][
                "ExportAddressTableJumpsAddress"
            ] = self.dotnet.clr_header.ExportAddressTableJumpsAddress.value
            metadata["info"][
                "ExportAddressTableJumpsSize"
            ] = self.dotnet.clr_header.ExportAddressTableJumpsSize.value
            metadata["info"][
                "ManagedNativeHeaderAddress"
            ] = self.dotnet.clr_header.ManagedNativeHeaderAddress.value
            metadata["info"][
                "ManagedNativeHeaderSize"
            ] = self.dotnet.clr_header.ManagedNativeHeaderSize.value
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting more metadata/info clr header for {self.hash.sha256}: {e}")

        # Streams section
        try:
            metadata["Streams"] = {}
            stream_names = self.dotnet.get_stream_names()
            for name in stream_names:
                indx = stream_names.index(name)
                stream_header = self.dotnet.dotnet_stream_headers[indx]
                stream_address = self.dotnet.dotnet_streams[indx].address
                metadata["Streams"][name] = {}
                metadata["Streams"][name]["raw_name"] = base64.b64encode(
                    stream_header.Name.value
                ).decode()
                # metadata["Streams"][name]["raw_name"] = name
                metadata["Streams"][name]["size"] = stream_header.Size.value
                # Retrieve the stream data directly using the given address and size
                stream_data = self.pe.get_data(stream_address, stream_header.Size.value)
                metadata["Streams"][name]["entropy"] = (
                    "%.2f" % pefile.SectionStructure.entropy_H(self.pe, stream_data)
                )
                metadata["Streams"][name]["md5"] = md5(stream_data).hexdigest()
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting streams for {self.hash.sha256}: {e}")

        # ManifestResource
        try:
            metadata["ManifestResource"] = ()
            if "ManifestResource" in available_tables:
                metadata["info"]["HasManifestResource"] = True
                metadata["ManifestResource"] = (
                    self.dotnet.ManifestResource.get_resource_names()
                )
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting manifest resource for {self.hash.sha256}: {e}")

        # ExternalAssemblyRef
        try:
            metadata["ExternalAssemblyRef"] = {}
            if "AssemblyRef" in available_tables:
                metadata["ExternalAssemblyRef"][
                    "names"
                ] = self.dotnet.AssemblyRef.get_assemblyref_names()
                metadata["ExternalAssemblyRef"][
                    "cultures"
                ] = self.dotnet.AssemblyRef.get_assemblyref_cultures()
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting external assembly ref for {self.hash.sha256}: {e}")

        # AssemblyData
        try:
            metadata["AssemblyData"] = {}
            if "Assembly" in available_tables:
                metadata["AssemblyData"][
                    "name"
                ] = self.dotnet.Assembly.get_assembly_name()
                # It's officially a one-row table, but there are ITW files with more than one row.
                # It stores information about the current assembly. It is documented in ECMA-335.
                assembly_table = self.dotnet.metadata_tables_lookup[
                    "Assembly"
                ].table_rows[0]
                metadata["AssemblyData"][
                    "MajorVersion"
                ] = assembly_table.MajorVersion.value
                metadata["AssemblyData"][
                    "MinorVersion"
                ] = assembly_table.MinorVersion.value
                metadata["AssemblyData"]["hashalgid"] = assembly_table.HashAlgId.value
                metadata["AssemblyData"][
                    "BuildNumber"
                ] = assembly_table.BuildNumber.value
                metadata["AssemblyData"][
                    "RevisionNumber"
                ] = assembly_table.RevisionNumber.value
                metadata["AssemblyData"][
                    "culture"
                ] = self.dotnet.Assembly.get_assembly_culture()
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting assembly data for {self.hash.sha256}: {e}")

        # TypeDef handling
        try:
            metadata["TypeDef"] = {}
            if "TypeDef" in available_tables:
                metadata["info"]["HasTypeDef"] = True
                # Get basic type definitions
                try:
                    # Get all types (ANY visibility)
                    type_defs = self.dotnet.TypeDef.get_type_names()
                    metadata["TypeDef"]["names"] = type_defs if type_defs else []
                    
                    # Get detailed type information with methods
                    types_with_methods = self.dotnet.TypeDef.get_type_names_with_methods()
                    if types_with_methods:
                        metadata["TypeDef"]["detailed"] = []
                        for type_info in types_with_methods:
                            type_data = {
                                "type": type_info.Type,
                                "namespace": type_info.Namespace,
                                "flags": type_info.Flags,
                                "methods": []
                            }
                            for method in type_info.Methods:
                                method_data = {
                                    "name": method.Name,
                                    "flags": method.Flags
                                }
                                if method.Signature:
                                    method_data["signature"] = {
                                        "parameters": method.Signature.get("parameter", []),
                                        "return_type": method.Signature.get("return", ""),
                                        "has_this": method.Signature.get("hasthis", False)
                                    }
                                type_data["methods"].append(method_data)
                            metadata["TypeDef"]["detailed"].append(type_data)
                except AttributeError as e:
                    self.log.warning(f"TypeDef table exists but attributes missing for {self.hash.sha256}: {e}")
                    # metadata["info"]["TypeDefParsingError"] = f"Missing attributes: {str(e)}"
                except Exception as e:
                    self.log.error(f"Error parsing TypeDef table for {self.hash.sha256}: {e}")
                    # metadata["info"]["TypeDefParsingError"] = str(e)
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error handling TypeDef section for {self.hash.sha256}: {e}")
            metadata["TypeDef"] = {"names": [], "detailed": []}
            # metadata["info"]["TypeDefParsingError"] = str(e)

        # ExternalUnmanagedModules
        try:
            metadata["ExternalUnmanagedModules"] = ()
            if "ModuleRef" in available_tables:
                metadata["info"]["HasModuleRef"] = True
                metadata["ExternalUnmanagedModules"] = (
                    self.dotnet.ModuleRef.get_unmanaged_module_names(
                        self.dotnet.Type.UnmanagedModules.RAW
                    )
                )
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting external unmanaged modules for {self.hash.sha256}: {e}")

        # ExternalUnmanagedMethods
        try:
            metadata["ExternalUnmanagedMethods"] = ()
            if "ImplMap" in available_tables:
                metadata["info"]["HasImplMap"] = True
                metadata["ExternalUnmanagedMethods"] = (
                    self.dotnet.ImplMap.get_unmanaged_functions()
                )
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting external unmanaged methods for {self.hash.sha256}: {e}")

        # Event
        try:
            metadata["Event"] = ()
            if "Event" in available_tables:
                metadata["info"]["HasEvent"] = True
                metadata["Event"] = self.dotnet.Event.get_event_names()
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting event for {self.hash.sha256}: {e}")

        # Resources
        try:
            metadata["Resources"] = []
            if self.dotnet.has_resources():
                tmp_resources_list = []
                resource_data = self.dotnet.get_resources()
                for data in resource_data:
                    tmp_dict = {}
                    for resource_item in data.items():
                        if resource_item[0] == "SubResources":
                            if resource_item[1]:
                                tmp_dict["SubResources"] = {}
                                for sub_resource in resource_item[1]:
                                    for sub_resource_item in sub_resource.items():
                                        if sub_resource_item[0] == "Data":
                                            # Check if data is a sequence type that supports len()
                                            if hasattr(sub_resource_item[1], '__len__') and len(sub_resource_item[1]) > 100:
                                                tmp_dict["SubResources"]["Data"] = {}
                                                try:
                                                    # tmp_dict["SubResources"]["Data"][
                                                    #     "md5"
                                                    # ] = md5(
                                                    #     sub_resource_item[1].encode()
                                                    # ).hexdigest()
                                                    tmp_dict["SubResources"]["Data"][
                                                        "md5"
                                                    ] = self._compute_md5(
                                                        sub_resource_item[1]
                                                    )
                                                except Exception as e:
                                                    self.log.error(
                                                        f"Error in dotnet resources"
                                                        f" extraction {self.hash.sha256}: {e}"
                                                    )
                                                guess = magic.from_buffer(
                                                    sub_resource_item[1], mime=True
                                                )
                                                tmp_dict["SubResources"]["Data"][
                                                    "MimeType"
                                                ] = (guess if guess else None)
                                            else:
                                                normalized_data = self._normalize_data(
                                                    sub_resource_item[1].decode()
                                                    if isinstance(
                                                        sub_resource_item[1], bytes
                                                    )
                                                    else sub_resource_item[1]
                                                )
                                                tmp_dict["SubResources"][
                                                    sub_resource_item[0]
                                                ] = normalized_data
                                        else:
                                            tmp_dict["SubResources"][
                                                sub_resource_item[0]
                                            ] = (
                                                sub_resource_item[1].decode()
                                                if isinstance(
                                                    sub_resource_item[1], bytes
                                                )
                                                else sub_resource_item[1]
                                            )
                        elif resource_item[0] == "Data":
                            # Check if data is a sequence type that supports len()
                            if hasattr(resource_item[1], '__len__') and len(resource_item[1]) > 100:
                                tmp_dict["Data"] = {}
                                tmp_dict["Data"]["md5"] = self._compute_md5(
                                    resource_item[1]
                                )
                                guess = magic.from_buffer(resource_item[1], mime=True)
                                tmp_dict["Data"]["MimeType"] = guess if guess else None
                            else:
                                normalized_data = self._normalize_data(
                                    resource_item[1].decode()
                                    if isinstance(resource_item[1], bytes)
                                    else resource_item[1]
                                )
                                tmp_dict["Data"] = normalized_data
                        else:
                            tmp_dict[resource_item[0]] = (
                                resource_item[1].decode()
                                if isinstance(resource_item[1], bytes)
                                else resource_item[1]
                            )
                    tmp_resources_list.append(tmp_dict)
                metadata["Resources"] = tmp_resources_list
        except Exception as e:
            self.log.error(f"Error getting resources for {self.hash.sha256}: {e}")
            metadata["Resources"] = []  # Ensure we always have a valid list even on error

        dotnet = PEDotNet(metadata)
        self.dotnet = dotnet  # Store for later use in prepare_export_data
        return dotnet  # Return the extracted data instead of exporting directly


    def prepare_export_data(self, exporter_type: str) -> Any:
        if exporter_type == "ElasticsearchExporter":
            return self.dotnet
        elif exporter_type == "ClickHouseExporter":
            # Convert metadata to JSON string
            metadata_json = json.dumps(self.dotnet.dotnet)
            
            data = [[
                self.sha256,
                self.md5,
                self.sha1,
                metadata_json,
                datetime.now(timezone.utc)
            ]]
            
            column_names = [
                'sha256', 'md5', 'sha1', 'dotnet', 'analysis_date'
            ]
            
            if not data:
                return None

            column_type_names = [
                'String', 'String', 'String', 'JSON', 'DateTime64(3, \'UTC\')'
            ]

            return (data, column_names, column_type_names)

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