Hannes Mareen

37 papers B 4C 7Journal 16Unranked 10
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
IEEE Consumer Electron. Mag.
Jelle De Geest, Patrick de Smet, Lucio Bonetto, Peter Lambert, Glenn Van Wallendael, Hannes Mareen
2026 J jnl
ACM Trans. Multim. Comput. Commun. Appl.
Casper Haems, Jeroen van der Hooft, Hannes Mareen, Peter Steenkiste, Glenn Van Wallendael, Tim Wauters, Filip De Turck
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Hannes Mareen, Dimitrios Karageorgiou, Paschalis Giakoumoglou, Peter Lambert, Symeon Papadopoulos, Glenn Van Wallendael
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Deressa Wodajo, Hannes Mareen, Peter Lambert, Glenn Van Wallendael
2024 J jnl
Multim. Tools Appl.
Hannes Mareen, Martijn Courteaux, Pieter-Jan Speelmans, Peter Lambert, Glenn Van Wallendael
2024 J jnl
Int. J. Semantic Comput.
Hannes Mareen, Casper Haems, Tim Wauters, Filip De Turck, Peter Lambert, Glenn Van Wallendael
2024 C conf
ICCE
Hannes Mareen, Lucas Antchougov, Glenn Van Wallendael, Peter Lambert
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Hannes Mareen, Lucas Antchougov, Glenn Van Wallendael, Peter Lambert
2024 conf
GEM
Hannes Mareen, Stephanie D'haeseleer, Kristin Van Damme, Tom Evens, Peter Lambert, Glenn Van Wallendael
2024 conf
ICSPCS
Hannes Mareen, Kobe De Meulenaere, Peter Lambert, Glenn Van Wallendael
2024 B conf
NOSSDAV
Casper Haems, Jeroen van der Hooft, Hannes Mareen, Peter Steenkiste, Glenn Van Wallendael, Tim Wauters, Filip De Turck
2024 conf
GEM
Glenn Van Wallendael, Julie Artois, Hannes Mareen, Robbe Capelleman, Joke Schuermans, Evi Wezenbeek, Peter Lambert
2024 J jnl
J. Imaging
Hannes Mareen, Louis De Neve, Peter Lambert, Glenn Van Wallendael
2024 conf
GEM
Deressa Wodajo, Peter Lambert, Glenn Van Wallendael, Solomon Atnafu, Hannes Mareen
2024 conf
GEM
Jelle De Geest, Patrick de Smet, Lucio Bonetto, Peter Lambert, Glenn Van Wallendael, Hannes Mareen
2024 B conf
CNSM
Casper Haems, Jeroen van der Hooft, Hannes Mareen, Peter Steenkiste, Glenn Van Wallendael, Tim Wauters, Filip De Turck
2024 conf
GEM
To Cornelis, Hannes Mareen, Robbe Capelleman, Joke Schuermans, Evi Wezenbeek, Peter Lambert, Glenn Van Wallendael
2024 conf
WIFS
Hannes Mareen, Dimitrios Karageorgiou, Glenn Van Wallendael, Peter Lambert, Symeon Papadopoulos
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Hannes Mareen, Dimitrios Karageorgiou, Glenn Van Wallendael, Peter Lambert, Symeon Papadopoulos
2023 C conf
VCIP
Hannes Mareen, Peter Lambert, Glenn Van Wallendael
2023 C conf
ISM
Hannes Mareen, Casper Haems, Tim Wauters, Filip De Turck, Peter Lambert, Glenn Van Wallendael
2023 C conf
ICCE
Hannes Mareen, Dante Vanden Bussche, Glenn Van Wallendael, Luisa Verdoliva, Peter Lambert
2022 J jnl
IEEE Access
Md. Asikuzzaman, Hannes Mareen, Nour Moustafa, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, Mark R. Pickering
2022 conf
ICPR Workshops (2)
Hannes Mareen, Dante Vanden Bussche, Fabrizio Guillaro, Davide Cozzolino, Glenn Van Wallendael, Peter Lambert, Luisa Verdoliva
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Hannes Mareen, Dante Vanden Bussche, Fabrizio Guillaro, Davide Cozzolino, Glenn Van Wallendael, Peter Lambert, Luisa Verdoliva
2022 B conf
ARES
Hannes Mareen, Glenn Van Wallendael, Peter Lambert, Fouad Khelifi
2022 B conf
DCC
Hannes Mareen, Martijn Courteaux, Johan Vounckx, Peter Lambert, Glenn Van Wallendael
2022 C conf
PCS
Glenn Van Wallendael, Peter Lambert, Pieter-Jan Speelmans, Hannes Mareen
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Hannes Mareen, Dante Vanden Bussche, Glenn Van Wallendael, Luisa Verdoliva, Peter Lambert
2022 conf
EUVIP
Hannes Mareen, Francis Valcke, Aaron Hallaert, Glenn Van Wallendael, Peter Lambert
2021 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol.
Hannes Mareen, Martijn Courteaux, Johan De Praeter, Md. Asikuzzaman, Glenn Van Wallendael, Mark R. Pickering, Peter Lambert
2021 conf
ICICT (1)
Hannes Mareen, Glenn Van Wallendael, Peter Lambert
2020 J jnl
IEEE Access
Hannes Mareen, Martijn Courteaux, Johan De Praeter, Md. Asikuzzaman, Glenn Van Wallendael, Peter Lambert
2019 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur.
Hannes Mareen, Johan De Praeter, Glenn Van Wallendael, Peter Lambert
2018 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Consumer Electron.
Hannes Mareen, Johan De Praeter, Glenn Van Wallendael, Peter Lambert
2018 C conf
ICCE
Hannes Mareen, Johan De Praeter, Glenn Van Wallendael, Peter Lambert
2018 C conf
IWDW
Hannes Mareen, Johan De Praeter, Glenn Van Wallendael, Peter Lambert
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)