Cesare Bernardis

15 papers A 2Misc 2Journal 7Unranked 3
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Yassine Benajiba, Cesare Bernardis, Vladislav Blinov, Paul Cayet, Hassan Chafi, Abderrahim Fathan, Louis Faucon, Damien Hilloulin, Sungpack Hong, Ingo Kossyk, Rhicheek Patra, Sujith Ravi, Jonas Schweizer, Jyotika Singh, Shailender Singh, Xuelin Situ, Weiyi Sun, Jerry Xu, Ying Xu
2022 J jnl
J. Intell. Inf. Syst.
Edoardo D'Amico, Giovanni Gabbolini, Cesare Bernardis, Paolo Cremonesi
2022 J jnl
IEEE Access
Cesare Bernardis, Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema, Fernando Benjamín Pérez Maurera, Massimo Quadrana, Mario Scriminaci, Paolo Cremonesi
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Cesare Bernardis
2022 J jnl
User Model. User Adapt. Interact.
Cesare Bernardis, Paolo Cremonesi
2022
Cesare Bernardis
2022 Misc conf
SAC
Matteo Montanari, Cesare Bernardis, Paolo Cremonesi
2021 A conf
RecSys
Cesare Bernardis, Paolo Cremonesi
2021 conf
RecSys Challenge
Luca Carminati, Giacomo Lodigiani, Pietro Maldini, Samuele Meta, Stiven Metaj, Arcangelo Pisa, Alessandro Sanvito, Mattia Surricchio, Fernando Benjamín Pérez Maurera, Cesare Bernardis, Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Giovanni Gabbolini, Edoardo D'Amico, Cesare Bernardis, Paolo Cremonesi
2021 Misc conf
SAC
Giovanni Gabbolini, Edoardo D'Amico, Cesare Bernardis, Paolo Cremonesi
2020 conf
RecSys Challenge
Nicolò Felicioni, Andrea Donati, Luca Conterio, Luca Bartoccioni, Davide Yi Xian Hu, Cesare Bernardis, Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema
2019 A conf
UMAP
Cesare Bernardis, Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema, Paolo Cremonesi
2019 conf
RecSys Challenge
Edoardo D'Amico, Giovanni Gabbolini, Daniele Montesi, Matteo Moreschini, Federico Parroni, Federico Piccinini, Alberto Rossettini, Alessio Russo Introito, Cesare Bernardis, Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema
2018 J jnl
CoRR
Cesare Bernardis, Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema, Paolo Cremonesi
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)