Hamed Jafarzadeh

21 papers Journal 12Unranked 8
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
Inf. Softw. Technol.
Hamed Jafarzadeh, Hossein Mosafer, Jalal Sarabadani
2025 J jnl
Behav. Inf. Technol.
Diyako Rahmani, Hamed Jafarzadeh, Alexandra Claudia Hess
2022 J jnl
Decis. Support Syst.
Hamed Jafarzadeh, Jalil Heidary Dahooie, Pouria Akbari, Ali Reza Qorbani
2022 conf
PACIS
Kasuni Weerasinghe, Jane Parker, David Pauleen, Ji Yu, Hamed Jafarzadeh
2022 conf
HICSS
Ji Yu, Nazim Taskin, David Pauleen, Hamed Jafarzadeh
2022 J jnl
Pac. Asia J. Assoc. Inf. Syst.
Behrang Assemi, Hamed Jafarzadeh, Ehsan Abedin, Fethi Rabhi, Christine Mathies
2021 J jnl
Inf. Syst. Manag.
Babak Abedin, Hamed Jafarzadeh, Celina M. Olszak
2020 conf
ECIS
Hamed Jafarzadeh, Mahdi Tafti, Babak Sohrabi
2020 conf
PACIS
Jalil Heidary Dahooie, Hamed Jafarzadeh, Pouria Akbari
2020 conf
ACIS
Hamed Jafarzadeh, Hossein Mosafer
2019 conf
PACIS
Pouria Akbari, Hamed Jafarzadeh, Jalil Heidary Dahooie
2019 J jnl
J. Organ. End User Comput.
Hamed Jafarzadeh, Babak Abedin, Aybüke Aurum, John D'Ambra
2018 J jnl
Expert Syst. Appl.
Hamed Jafarzadeh, Pouria Akbari, Babak Abedin
2018 conf
PACIS
Ehsan Abedin, Hamed Jafarzadeh, Saeed Akhlaghpour
2017 J jnl
Int. J. Enterp. Inf. Syst.
Jalal Sarabadani, Hamed Jafarzadeh, Mehdi Shamizanjani
2015 J jnl
Pac. Asia J. Assoc. Inf. Syst.
Hamed Jafarzadeh, Aybüke Aurum, John D'Ambra, Amir Hossein Ghapanchi
2015 J jnl
Int. J. Inf. Syst. Chang. Manag.
Hamed Jafarzadeh, Aybüke Aurum, John D'Ambra, Amir Hossein Ghapanchi
2015 conf
HICSS
Babak Abedin, Hamed Jafarzadeh
2015 J jnl
J. Organ. Comput. Electron. Commer.
Hamed Jafarzadeh, Aybüke Aurum, John D'Ambra, Babak Abedin, Behrang Assemi
2013 J jnl
Int. J. Enterp. Inf. Syst.
Hamed Jafarzadeh, Aybüke Aurum, John D'Ambra, Babak Abedin
2012
Hamed Jafarzadeh
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)