Haider Ali

20 papers Journal 13Unranked 6
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
IEEE Access
Noor Ul Ain, Muhammad Waqar, Anas Bilal, Ajung Kim, Haider Ali, Umair Ullah Tariq, Muhammad Shahroz Nadeem
2024 J jnl
Future Internet
Mohamed Azarudheen Mohamed Mohideen, Muhammad Shahroz Nadeem, James Hardy, Haider Ali, Umair Ullah Tariq, Fariza Sabrina, Muhammad Waqar, Salman Ahmed
2024 J jnl
IEEE Access
Umair Ullah Tariq, Haider Ali, Muhammad Shahroz Nadeem, Syed Roohullah Jan, Fariza Sabrina, Srimannarayana Grandhi, Zhenglin Wang, Lu Liu
2023 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Green Commun. Netw.
Umair Ullah Tariq, Haider Ali, Mubashir Hussain, Lu Liu
2021 J jnl
Comput. Sci. Rev.
Haider Ali, Umair Ullah Tariq, James Hardy, Xiaojun Zhai, Lu Liu, Yongjun Zheng, Faycal Bensaali, Abbes Amira, Kaniz Fatema, Nikos Antonopoulos
2021 J jnl
IEEE Syst. J.
Haider Ali, Umair Ullah Tariq, Mubashir Hussain, Lu Liu, John Panneerselvam, Xiaojun Zhai
2021 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Green Commun. Netw.
Umair Ullah Tariq, Haider Ali, Lu Liu, James Hardy, Muhammad Kazim, Waqar Ahmed
2021 J jnl
J. Ambient Intell. Humaniz. Comput.
Umair Ullah Tariq, Haider Ali, Lu Liu, John Panneerselvam, James Hardy
2020 conf
ISPA/BDCloud/SocialCom/SustainCom
Umair Ullah Tariq, Haider Ali, John Panneerselvam, James Hardy, Lu Liu
2019 conf
SmartWorld/SCALCOM/UIC/ATC/CBDCom/IOP/SCI
Umair Ullah Tariq, Haider Ali, Lu Liu, Xiaojun Zhai
2019 ch.
Security and Privacy for Big Data, Cloud Computing and Applications
Yongjun Zheng, Haider Ali, Umair Ullah Tariq
2019 conf
SmartWorld/SCALCOM/UIC/ATC/CBDCom/IOP/SCI
Haider Ali, Umair Ullah Tariq, Lu Liu, John Panneerselvam, Xiaojun Zhai
2019 J jnl
ACM Trans. Intell. Syst. Technol.
Umair Ullah Tariq, Haider Ali, Lu Liu, John Panneerselvam, Xiaojun Zhai
2019 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Comput. Soc. Syst.
Lei-lei Shi, Lu Liu, Yan Wu, Liang Jiang, Muhammad Kazim, Haider Ali, John Panneerselvam
2018 conf
HPCC/SmartCity/DSS
Hengjian Wang, John Panneerselvam, Lu Liu, Yao Lu, Xiaojun Zhai, Haider Ali
2018 J jnl
IEEE Access
Haider Ali, Umair Ullah Tariq, Yongjun Zheng, Xiaojun Zhai, Lu Liu
2018 conf
HPCC/SmartCity/DSS
Haider Ali, Xiaojun Zhai, Umair Ullah Tariq, Lu Liu
2018 conf
HPCC/SmartCity/DSS
Haider Ali, Umair Ullah Tariq, Xiaojun Zhai, Lu Liu
2017 J jnl
IEEE Access
Haider Ali, Faycal Bensaali, Fadi Jaber
2014 J jnl
Int. J. Image Graph.
Haider Ali, Umair Ullah Tariq, Muhammad Abid
redb/extractors/js_extractors/js_patterns.py
← Index redb/extractors/js_extractors/js_patterns.py python
"""Canonical, compiled JavaScript regex patterns shared across JS extractors.

All suspicious-API patterns and the few feature-only patterns live here so each
expression is compiled exactly once per Python process and so any pattern that
was previously duplicated across `js_features.py` and `js_suspicious_apis.py`
now resolves to a single shared compiled object.

JavaScript is case-sensitive at runtime, but every suspicious-API pattern matches
either a literal-case identifier (`\\beval\\s*\\(`, `String\\.fromCharCode`, etc.)
or a string-quoted token (`"powershell"`). Compiling them with `re.IGNORECASE`
matches the historical behaviour of `JSSuspiciousAPIsExtractor` and is safe for
the patterns that historically came from `JSFeaturesExtractor` — those literals
are spelled in real-world JS exactly as written.

`scan_source()` is the entry point used by extractors: it walks the source once
per pattern using the pre-compiled regexes and returns a flat
`{name: {"count": N, "lines": [unique_line_numbers_sorted]}}` dict. Both
`JSFeaturesExtractor` and `JSSuspiciousAPIsExtractor` consume the same dict so
the per-pattern × per-line loops they used to run independently collapse to a
single shared scan.
"""

import bisect
import re
from typing import Dict, Iterable, List, Mapping

_FLAGS = re.IGNORECASE

# Canonical compiled patterns, keyed by their human-readable name. The name is
# also the value emitted into `redb_js_suspicious_apis.api_name`.
PATTERNS = {
    # ---- code execution ----
    "eval": re.compile(r"\beval\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "Function constructor": re.compile(r"\bnew\s+Function\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "execScript": re.compile(r"\bexecScript\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "document.write": re.compile(r"\bdocument\.write(?:ln)?\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "innerHTML assignment": re.compile(r"\.innerHTML\s*=", _FLAGS),
    "outerHTML assignment": re.compile(r"\.outerHTML\s*=", _FLAGS),
    "insertAdjacentHTML": re.compile(r"\.insertAdjacentHTML\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    # ---- network ----
    "XMLHttpRequest": re.compile(r"\bnew\s+XMLHttpRequest\b", _FLAGS),
    "fetch": re.compile(r"\bfetch\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "WebSocket": re.compile(r"\bnew\s+WebSocket\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "navigator.sendBeacon": re.compile(r"\bnavigator\.sendBeacon\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "ActiveXObject XMLHTTP": re.compile(
        r"ActiveXObject\s*\(\s*[\"\'](?:MSXML2\.XMLHTTP|Microsoft\.XMLHTTP)", _FLAGS
    ),
    "require network module": re.compile(
        r"require\s*\(\s*[\"\'](?:http|https|net|dgram)[\"\']", _FLAGS
    ),
    "axios": re.compile(r"\baxios\b", _FLAGS),
    # ---- filesystem ----
    "require fs": re.compile(r"require\s*\(\s*[\"\']fs[\"\']", _FLAGS),
    "require path": re.compile(r"require\s*\(\s*[\"\']path[\"\']", _FLAGS),
    "FileSystemObject": re.compile(r"Scripting\.FileSystemObject", _FLAGS),
    "ADODB.Stream": re.compile(r"ADODB\.Stream", _FLAGS),
    "Shell.Application": re.compile(r"Shell\.Application", _FLAGS),
    "WScript.CreateObject": re.compile(r"WScript\.CreateObject", _FLAGS),
    # ---- process ----
    "require child_process": re.compile(r"require\s*\(\s*[\"\']child_process[\"\']", _FLAGS),
    "child_process exec": re.compile(r"child_process\.(?:exec|spawn|execFile|fork)\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "WScript.Shell": re.compile(r"WScript\.Shell", _FLAGS),
    "WScript.Shell.Run": re.compile(r"\.Run\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "WScript.Shell.Exec": re.compile(r"\.Exec\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "ShellExecute": re.compile(r"\bShellExecute\b", _FLAGS),
    "PowerShell reference": re.compile(r"[\"\']powershell[\"\']", _FLAGS),
    "cmd.exe reference": re.compile(r"[\"\']cmd\.exe[\"\']", _FLAGS),
    "require os": re.compile(r"require\s*\(\s*[\"\']os[\"\']", _FLAGS),
    # ---- registry ----
    "RegRead": re.compile(r"\.RegRead\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "RegWrite": re.compile(r"\.RegWrite\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "RegDelete": re.compile(r"\.RegDelete\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "StdRegProv": re.compile(r"StdRegProv", _FLAGS),
    # ---- crypto / encoding ----
    "atob": re.compile(r"\batob\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "btoa": re.compile(r"\bbtoa\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "String.fromCharCode": re.compile(r"String\.fromCharCode\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "unescape": re.compile(r"\bunescape\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "decodeURIComponent": re.compile(r"\bdecodeURIComponent\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "Buffer.from": re.compile(r"Buffer\.from\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "crypto module": re.compile(r"crypto\.create(?:Cipher|Decipher|Hash|Hmac)", _FLAGS),
    # ---- DOM manipulation ----
    "document.forms": re.compile(r"document\.forms", _FLAGS),
    "document.cookie": re.compile(r"document\.cookie", _FLAGS),
    "querySelector sensitive input": re.compile(
        r"document\.querySelector\s*\([^)]*(?:password|credit|card|cvv|ssn)", _FLAGS
    ),
    "submit event listener": re.compile(r"addEventListener\s*\(\s*[\"\']submit", _FLAGS),
    "createElement script/iframe": re.compile(
        r"\.createElement\s*\(\s*[\"\'](?:script|iframe)", _FLAGS
    ),
    "dynamic script src": re.compile(r"\.src\s*=\s*[\"\'](?:https?://|//)", _FLAGS),
}

# Pattern name -> category (one of code_execution / network / filesystem /
# process / registry / crypto_encoding / dom_manipulation).
CATEGORIES = {
    "eval": "code_execution",
    "Function constructor": "code_execution",
    "execScript": "code_execution",
    "document.write": "code_execution",
    "innerHTML assignment": "code_execution",
    "outerHTML assignment": "code_execution",
    "insertAdjacentHTML": "code_execution",
    "XMLHttpRequest": "network",
    "fetch": "network",
    "WebSocket": "network",
    "navigator.sendBeacon": "network",
    "ActiveXObject XMLHTTP": "network",
    "require network module": "network",
    "axios": "network",
    "require fs": "filesystem",
    "require path": "filesystem",
    "FileSystemObject": "filesystem",
    "ADODB.Stream": "filesystem",
    "Shell.Application": "filesystem",
    "WScript.CreateObject": "filesystem",
    "require child_process": "process",
    "child_process exec": "process",
    "WScript.Shell": "process",
    "WScript.Shell.Run": "process",
    "WScript.Shell.Exec": "process",
    "ShellExecute": "process",
    "PowerShell reference": "process",
    "cmd.exe reference": "process",
    "require os": "process",
    "RegRead": "registry",
    "RegWrite": "registry",
    "RegDelete": "registry",
    "StdRegProv": "registry",
    "atob": "crypto_encoding",
    "btoa": "crypto_encoding",
    "String.fromCharCode": "crypto_encoding",
    "unescape": "crypto_encoding",
    "decodeURIComponent": "crypto_encoding",
    "Buffer.from": "crypto_encoding",
    "crypto module": "crypto_encoding",
    "document.forms": "dom_manipulation",
    "document.cookie": "dom_manipulation",
    "querySelector sensitive input": "dom_manipulation",
    "submit event listener": "dom_manipulation",
    "createElement script/iframe": "dom_manipulation",
    "dynamic script src": "dom_manipulation",
}

# Patterns consumed only by JSFeaturesExtractor (no category, never surfaced as
# a suspicious-API row). Kept here so every JS regex is compiled in one place.
FEATURE_PATTERNS = {
    "hex_escape": re.compile(r"\\x[0-9a-fA-F]{2}"),
    "unicode_escape": re.compile(r"\\u[0-9a-fA-F]{4}"),
    "base64_string": re.compile(r"[A-Za-z0-9+/]{40,}={0,2}"),
    # decodeURI matches BOTH decodeURI and decodeURIComponent. The latter is also
    # a suspicious-API pattern in PATTERNS; this broader form is what the
    # `decodeuri_count` feature column has historically counted.
    "decodeURI": re.compile(r"\b(?:decodeURI|decodeURIComponent)\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "settimeout_setinterval": re.compile(r"\b(?:setTimeout|setInterval)\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "function_decl": re.compile(r"\bfunction\s+\w+\s*\(|\bfunction\s*\("),
    "var_decl": re.compile(r"\b(?:var|let|const)\s+"),
    "string_concat": re.compile(r"[\"\'][\s]*\+[\s]*[\"\']"),
    "comment": re.compile(r"//.*?$|/\*[\s\S]*?\*/", re.MULTILINE),
    "long_string": re.compile(r"[\"\']([^\"\']{256,})[\"\']"),
    "array_function_call": re.compile(r"\[(?:0x[0-9a-f]+|[\d]+)\]\s*\(", _FLAGS),
}

# Patterns consumed only by JSStringsExtractor for encoded-string discovery.
# Scoped to *hidden* strings only — patterns whose decoded form is not visible
# to a substring search over the raw text. Plain long literals are not
# extracted here because they're already preserved in code_text_content and
# scraped by the IOC pipeline over text_raw / text_normalized.
#
# Distinct from FEATURE_PATTERNS even where the names rhyme:
#   FEATURE_PATTERNS["hex_escape"] / ["unicode_escape"]   -> single escape
#   STRING_PATTERNS["hex_escape_seq"] / ["unicode_escape_seq"] -> 4+ / 3+ in a row
#   FEATURE_PATTERNS["base64_string"]                     -> bare base64 token
#   STRING_PATTERNS["base64_quoted"]                      -> base64 inside JS quotes
# These do not share match objects with the suspicious-API or feature scans, so
# they are not folded into JSContext.scan; the strings extractor walks them
# itself (one finditer per pattern, with shared line-offset bisect in #4b).
STRING_PATTERNS = {
    "hex_escape_seq": re.compile(r"(?:\\x[0-9a-fA-F]{2}){4,}"),
    "unicode_escape_seq": re.compile(r"(?:\\u[0-9a-fA-F]{4}){3,}"),
    "charcode_call": re.compile(r"String\.fromCharCode\s*\(\s*([\d,\s]+)\s*\)"),
    "base64_quoted": re.compile(r"[\"\']([A-Za-z0-9+/]{40,}={0,2})[\"\']"),
    "concat_chain": re.compile(r"(?:[\"\'][^\"\']+[\"\']\s*\+\s*){3,}[\"\'][^\"\']+[\"\']"),
}


def line_offsets(source: str) -> List[int]:
    """Sorted list of byte offsets for every newline in `source`, plus a final
    sentinel of len(source). Used to translate match offsets into 1-indexed
    line numbers via bisect.
    """
    offsets = [-1]  # so that bisect_right of offset 0 returns line 1
    push = offsets.append
    idx = source.find("\n")
    while idx != -1:
        push(idx)
        idx = source.find("\n", idx + 1)
    return offsets


def _scan_one(
    pattern: "re.Pattern[str]", source: str, offsets: List[int]
) -> Dict[str, object]:
    """Run a single compiled pattern over `source` and return count + unique lines."""
    count = 0
    seen_lines: "set[int]" = set()
    for m in pattern.finditer(source):
        count += 1
        seen_lines.add(bisect.bisect_right(offsets, m.start()))
    if not count:
        return None  # type: ignore[return-value]
    return {"count": count, "lines": sorted(seen_lines)}


def scan_source(
    source: str,
    patterns: Iterable[Mapping[str, "re.Pattern[str]"]] = (PATTERNS, FEATURE_PATTERNS),
) -> Dict[str, Dict[str, object]]:
    """Scan `source` against every compiled pattern in `patterns`.

    Returns a dict keyed by pattern name. Each entry has:
        "count": total number of matches in the source
        "lines": sorted list of unique 1-indexed line numbers where the pattern
                 matched (deduplicated — multiple matches on the same line
                 collapse to one entry, preserving the historical
                 line-set semantics of JSSuspiciousAPIsExtractor)
    Patterns with zero matches are absent from the dict; callers should default
    to {"count": 0, "lines": []}.
    """
    if not source:
        return {}
    offsets = line_offsets(source)
    results: Dict[str, Dict[str, object]] = {}
    for table in patterns:
        for name, pat in table.items():
            entry = _scan_one(pat, source, offsets)
            if entry is not None:
                results[name] = entry
    return results