Hanmin Cai

14 papers Journal 10Unranked 4
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Smart Grid
Julie Rousseau, Carlo Tajoli, Hanmin Cai, Philipp Heer, Kristina Orehounig, Gabriela Hug
2026 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Smart Grid
Julie Rousseau, Hanmin Cai, Philipp Heer, Kristina Orehounig, Gabriela Hug
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Matthieu Jacobs, Hanmin Cai, Mario Paolone
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Julie Rousseau, Carlo Tajoli, Hanmin Cai, Philipp Heer, Kristina Orehounig, Gabriela Hug
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Julie Rousseau, Hanmin Cai, Philipp Heer, Kristina Orehounig, Gabriela Hug
2024 conf
CAiSE Workshops
James Allan, Edrisi Munoz, Sergio Acero González, Hassan Bazazzadeh, Federica Bellizio, Hanmin Cai, Reto Fricker, Philipp Heer, Mina Montazeri, Sascha Stoller, Georgios Mavromatidis
2024 conf
ICSRS
Charlotte Jacquet, Hanmin Cai, Arvind Srinivasan, Arnab Chatterjee, Giovanni Sansavini, Philipp Heer
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Hanmin Cai
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Varsha Behrunani, Hanmin Cai, Philipp Heer, Roy S. Smith, John Lygeros
2023 conf
ISGT EUROPE
Julie Rousseau, Hanmin Cai, Philipp Heer, Kristina Orehounig, Gabriela Hug
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Nami Hekmat, Hanmin Cai, Thierry Zufferey, Gabriela Hug, Philipp Heer
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Hanmin Cai, Philipp Heer
2021 conf
ISGT-Europe
Stavros Karagiannopoulos, Petros Aristidou, Hanmin Cai, Philipp Heer, Gabriela Hug
2019 J jnl
IEEE Access
Qifang Chen, Mingchao Xia, Yue Zhou, Hanmin Cai, Jianzhong Wu, Haibo Zhang
redb/extractors/js_extractors/js_xray.py
← Index redb/extractors/js_extractors/js_xray.py python
"""Subprocess wrapper for the bundled js-x-ray Node bridge.

Mirrors `js_deobfuscator.py`: shell out to a Node script with a per-sample
timeout, kill the process group on hang, demote `FileNotFoundError` to debug
(missing tool is routine — the host either has Node + the bundled package
installed or it doesn't), and return a structured result on success.

The bridge lives at `redb/extractors/js_extractors/scripts/js-xray-runner.js`.
Operators install the JS dependency once with `npm install` in that directory
(or override the path with `JS_XRAY_RUNNER_PATH`).

Configuration (env vars):
    JS_XRAY_RUNNER_PATH   Path to the Node bridge script (default: bundled).
    JS_XRAY_TIMEOUT       Seconds before the subprocess is killed. Default: 30.

`run(source, log)` returns `XRayResult(obfuscator, warnings)` on a successful
analysis, or `XRayResult(None, [])` for any non-success path (binary missing,
timeout, parse failure, etc.). The two unsuccessful states are
indistinguishable to the caller on purpose — they all collapse to "no
js-x-ray verdict, fall back to heuristic".
"""

from __future__ import annotations

import json
import os
import signal
import subprocess
import tempfile
from dataclasses import dataclass, field
from typing import List, Optional

# Bundled bridge: redb/extractors/js_extractors/scripts/js-xray-runner.js
_DEFAULT_RUNNER = os.path.join(
    os.path.dirname(__file__), "scripts", "js-xray-runner.js"
)
_DEFAULT_NODE = "node"
_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_SECS = 30


@dataclass
class XRayResult:
    """Parsed js-x-ray output. `obfuscator` is the recognised family name
    (e.g. "jsfuck", "obfuscator.io") or None when js-x-ray did not flag the
    code. `warnings` carries every {kind, value} pair the analyser produced;
    the heuristic uses it as a corroborating signal. `avg_identifier_length`
    is js-x-ray's own AST-derived figure — used as a fallback for the
    heuristic's `avg_identifier_length<2` strong signal when pyjsparser
    can't parse the source (anything ES2015+ trips it)."""

    obfuscator: Optional[str] = None
    warnings: List[dict] = field(default_factory=list)
    avg_identifier_length: Optional[float] = None

    @property
    def flagged(self) -> bool:
        return self.obfuscator is not None


def _empty() -> XRayResult:
    return XRayResult(obfuscator=None, warnings=[])


def run(source: str, log) -> XRayResult:
    if not source:
        return _empty()

    runner = os.getenv("JS_XRAY_RUNNER_PATH", _DEFAULT_RUNNER)
    node_bin = os.getenv("JS_XRAY_NODE_BIN", _DEFAULT_NODE)
    timeout = int(os.getenv("JS_XRAY_TIMEOUT", str(_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_SECS)))

    if not os.path.exists(runner):
        log.debug(f"js-x-ray runner not found at {runner}")
        return _empty()

    # Skip the subprocess entirely when the JS dependency isn't installed.
    # Without this, every call to a host that has `node` but never ran
    # `npm install` next to the runner would still fork node, get a require
    # error, and exit nonzero — wasted ~50–200ms per JS sample (and per test).
    runner_dir = os.path.dirname(runner)
    if not os.path.isdir(os.path.join(runner_dir, "node_modules", "@nodesecure", "js-x-ray")):
        log.debug(f"@nodesecure/js-x-ray not installed in {runner_dir}")
        return _empty()

    tmp_path = None
    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(
                [node_bin, runner, tmp_path],
                stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
                preexec_fn=os.setsid,
            )
            try:
                stdout, stderr = process.communicate(timeout=timeout)
            except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
                # Kill the whole process group so any node helpers die 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"js-x-ray timed out after {timeout}s")
                return _empty()

            if process.returncode != 0:
                err = stderr.decode("utf-8", errors="replace").strip()
                log.debug(f"js-x-ray exited {process.returncode}: {err}")
                return _empty()

            text = stdout.decode("utf-8", errors="replace").strip()
            if not text:
                return _empty()

            try:
                payload = json.loads(text)
            except json.JSONDecodeError as e:
                log.warning(f"js-x-ray emitted non-JSON output: {e}")
                return _empty()

            obfuscator = payload.get("obfuscator")
            warnings = payload.get("warnings") or []
            if not isinstance(warnings, list):
                warnings = []

            ids_avg = payload.get("idsLengthAvg")
            if not isinstance(ids_avg, (int, float)):
                ids_avg = None

            return XRayResult(
                obfuscator=obfuscator,
                warnings=warnings,
                avg_identifier_length=ids_avg,
            )
        finally:
            if tmp_path:
                try:
                    os.unlink(tmp_path)
                except Exception:
                    pass
    except FileNotFoundError:
        log.debug(f"node binary not found at {node_bin}")
        return _empty()
    except Exception as e:
        log.error(f"js-x-ray subprocess error: {e}")
        return _empty()