Carmelo Scuro

13 papers B 1C 1Journal 5Unranked 6
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
Math. Comput. Simul.
Giuseppe Alì, Carmelo Scuro, Isabella Torcicollo
2024 B conf
IEEE Big Data
Carmelo Scuro, Giuseppe Alì, Pierpaolo Antonio Fusaro, Salvatore Nisticò
2023 conf
NUMTA (3)
Francesco Demarco, Francesca Bertacchini, Eleonora Bilotta, Carmelo Scuro, Pietro S. Pantano
2022 J jnl
Frontiers Robotics AI
Francesca Bertacchini, Carmelo Scuro, Pietro S. Pantano, Eleonora Bilotta
2022 conf
MetroInd4.0& IoT
Francesca Bertacchini, Eleonora Bilotta, Francesco Demarco, Pietro S. Pantano, Carmelo Scuro
2022 C conf
ISM
Francesca Bertacchini, Roberto Beneduci, Eleonora Bilotta, Francesco Demarco, Pietro S. Pantano, Carmelo Scuro
2021 conf
MetroInd4.0&IoT
Francesca Bertacchini, Eleonora Bilotta, Domenico Luca Carnì, Francesco Demarco, Pietro S. Pantano, Carmelo Scuro, Francesco Lamonaca
2019 conf
NUMTA(1)
Francesco Demarco, Francesca Bertacchini, Carmelo Scuro, Eleonora Bilotta, Pietro S. Pantano
2019 conf
MeMeA
Francesco Lamonaca, Eulalia Balestrieri, Ioan Tudosa, Francesco Picariello, Domenico Luca Carnì, Carmelo Scuro, Francesco Bonavolontà, Vitaliano Spagnuolo, Gioconda Grimaldi, Antonio Colaprico
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Giulio Siracusano, Aurelio La Corte, Riccardo Tomasello, Francesco Lamonaca, Carmelo Scuro, Francesca Garescì, Mario Carpentieri, Giovanni Finocchio
2018 J jnl
IEEE Instrum. Meas. Mag.
Carmelo Scuro, Paolo F. Sciammarella, Francesco Lamonaca, Renato S. Olivito, Domenico Luca Carnì
2018 conf
MetroInd4.0&IoT
Francesco Lamonaca, Paolo F. Sciammarella, Carmelo Scuro, Domenico Luca Carnì, Renato S. Olivito
2017 J jnl
Int. J. Comput.
Domenico Luca Carnì, Carmelo Scuro, Francesco Lamonaca, Renato S. Olivito, Domenico Grimaldi
redb/extractors/js_extractors/js_deobfuscator.py
← Index redb/extractors/js_extractors/js_deobfuscator.py python
"""Subprocess-driven JavaScript deobfuscator with jsbeautifier fallback.

Owns the heavy lifting that was previously embedded inside
`JSDeobfuscationExtractor` (`_run_deobfuscator` + `_try_jsbeautifier`). Exposed
as a single module-level entry point `deobfuscate(source, log)` so it can be
called from `JSContext.deobfuscated` (cached per sample) without dragging
extractor state through the call.

Configuration (env vars):
    JS_DEOBFUSCATOR_PATH    Path or name of the external tool (default: webcrack).
    JS_DEOBFUSCATE_TIMEOUT  Seconds before the external tool is killed
                            (process-group SIGTERM, then SIGKILL). Default: 60.

If the external tool produces non-empty output and exits 0, that wins. Otherwise
the source is run through jsbeautifier (which only normalises formatting, but
already exposes strings hidden by minification). If neither path produces
output, returns (None, None).

`FileNotFoundError` for the external tool is treated as routine — the analysis
server is either provisioned with the tool or it isn't — and demoted to a
debug-level log.
"""

import os
import signal
import subprocess
import tempfile
from typing import Optional, Tuple

DEFAULT_DEOBFUSCATOR = "webcrack"
DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_SECS = 60


def _run_external(
    source: str, deobfuscator_path: str, timeout: int, log
) -> Tuple[Optional[str], int]:
    """Run the configured external deobfuscator over `source` and capture stdout.

    Returns (text, returncode). `text` is `None` and `returncode` is `-1` when
    the binary is missing, the run timed out, or any other unexpected failure
    occurred. Missing-binary is logged at debug; timeouts and unexpected errors
    surface at warning/error.
    """
    try:
        with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(
            suffix=".js", mode="w", delete=False, encoding="utf-8"
        ) as tmp:
            tmp.write(source)
            tmp_path = tmp.name

        try:
            process = subprocess.Popen(
                [deobfuscator_path, tmp_path],
                stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
                preexec_fn=os.setsid,
            )

            try:
                stdout, _ = process.communicate(timeout=timeout)
                return stdout.decode("utf-8", errors="replace"), process.returncode
            except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
                # Kill the entire process group so spawned helpers (e.g. node
                # subprocesses webcrack itself launches) get cleaned up too.
                try:
                    os.killpg(os.getpgid(process.pid), signal.SIGTERM)
                    process.wait(timeout=5)
                except Exception:
                    try:
                        os.killpg(os.getpgid(process.pid), signal.SIGKILL)
                    except Exception:
                        pass
                log.warning(f"Deobfuscation timed out after {timeout}s")
                return None, -1
        finally:
            try:
                os.unlink(tmp_path)
            except Exception:
                pass
    except FileNotFoundError:
        log.debug(f"Deobfuscator binary not found at {deobfuscator_path}")
        return None, -1
    except Exception as e:
        log.error(f"Error running deobfuscator: {e}")
        return None, -1


def _try_jsbeautifier(source: str, log) -> Tuple[Optional[str], Optional[str]]:
    """Fallback path: format the source with jsbeautifier. Returns
    `(text, "jsbeautifier")` or `(None, None)` if jsbeautifier isn't installed
    or the call raised."""
    try:
        import jsbeautifier
        opts = jsbeautifier.default_options()
        opts.indent_size = 2
        return jsbeautifier.beautify(source, opts), "jsbeautifier"
    except ImportError:
        log.debug("jsbeautifier not available")
        return None, None
    except Exception as e:
        log.warning(f"jsbeautifier failed: {e}")
        return None, None


def deobfuscate(source: str, log) -> Tuple[Optional[str], Optional[str]]:
    """Run the configured external deobfuscator, falling back to jsbeautifier.

    Returns `(text, normalizer_used)` on success, or `(None, None)` when neither
    path produced non-empty output. `normalizer_used` is the basename of the
    external tool (e.g. `"webcrack"`) or the literal `"jsbeautifier"`.
    """
    if not source:
        return None, None

    deobfuscator_path = os.getenv("JS_DEOBFUSCATOR_PATH", DEFAULT_DEOBFUSCATOR)
    timeout = int(os.getenv("JS_DEOBFUSCATE_TIMEOUT", str(DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_SECS)))

    text, returncode = _run_external(source, deobfuscator_path, timeout, log)
    if text and returncode == 0 and text.strip():
        return text, os.path.basename(deobfuscator_path)

    return _try_jsbeautifier(source, log)