Caterina Fregosi

13 papers A* 1A 1B 1Journal 4Unranked 6
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 A* conf
AAAI
Caterina Fregosi, Lucia Vicente, Andrea Campagner, Federico Cabitza
2026 J jnl
Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud.
Andrea Campagner, Caterina Fregosi, Chiara Natali, Federico Cabitza
2025 J jnl
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.
Federico Cabitza, Andrea Campagner, Caterina Fregosi, Matteo Cameli, Enrico Gallazzi, Luca Maria Sconfienza, Gian Eugenio Tontini
2025 A conf
IUI
Federico Cabitza, Lorenzo Famiglini, Caterina Fregosi, Samuele Pe, Enea Parimbelli, Giovanni Andrea La Maida, Enrico Gallazzi
2025 conf
xAI (Late-breaking Work, Demos, Doctoral Consortium)
Caterina Fregosi
2025 J jnl
Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud.
Lucia Vicente, Helena Matute, Caterina Fregosi, Federico Cabitza
2025 conf
xAI (1)
Federico Cabitza, Caterina Fregosi, Lucia Vicente
2025 J jnl
BMC Medical Informatics Decis. Mak.
Laura Bergomi, Giovanna Nicora, Marta Anna Orlowska, Chiara Podrecca, Riccardo Bellazzi, Caterina Fregosi, Francesco Salinaro, Marco Bonzano, Giuseppe Crescenzi, Francesco Speciale, Santi Di Pietro, Valentina Zuccaro, Erika Asperges, Paolo Sacchi, Pietro Valsecchi, Elisabetta Pagani, Michele Catalano, Chandra Bortolotto, Lorenzo Preda, Enea Parimbelli
2024 conf
HHAI Workshops
Caterina Fregosi, Federico Cabitza
2024 B conf
HAI
Alessandro Facchini, Caterina Fregosi, Chiara Natali, Alberto Termine, Ben Wilson
2024 conf
AIxHMI@AI*IA
Caterina Fregosi, Andrea Campagner, Chiara Natali, Federico Cabitza
2024 conf
xAI (4)
Federico Cabitza, Caterina Fregosi, Andrea Campagner, Chiara Natali
2024 conf
HWID
Chiara Natali, Luca Marconi, Caterina Fregosi, Federico Cabitza
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)