Indrakshi Dey

76 papers B 10Misc 1Journal 51Unranked 11
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
IEEE Open J. Commun. Soc.
Yan Zhang, Indrakshi Dey, Nicola Marchetti
2026 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Emerg. Top. Comput.
Debjani Goswami, Indrakshi Dey, Nicola Marchetti, Suvra Sekhar Das
2025 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput.
Rahul Umesh Mhapsekar, Lizy Abraham, Steven Davy, Indrakshi Dey
2025 J jnl
IEEE Internet Things J.
Nirmal D. Wickramasinghe, John Dooley, Dirk Pesch, Indrakshi Dey
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Ilias Cherkaoui, Ciaran Clarke, Jerry Horgan, Indrakshi Dey
2025 J jnl
IET Wirel. Sens. Syst.
Anwar Ahmed Khan, Shama Siddiqui, Ahmad Sami Al-Shamayleh, Adnan Akhunzada, Indrakshi Dey
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Debjani Goswami, Indrakshi Dey, Nicola Marchetti, Suvra Sekhar Das
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Ilias Cherkaoui, Indrakshi Dey
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Jack Jackman, David Ryan, Arun Narayanan, Pedro H. J. Nardelli, Indrakshi Dey
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Ilias Cherkaoui, Indrakshi Dey
2025 J jnl
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Ilias Cherkaoui, Ciaran Clarke, Indrakshi Dey
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Nirmal D. Wickramasinghe, John Dooley, Dirk Pesch, Indrakshi Dey
2025 conf
ICNSC
Anwar Ahmed Khan, Shama Siddiqui, Mehar Ullah, Indrakshi Dey
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Anwar Ahmed Khan, Shama Siddiqui, Mehar Ullah, Indrakshi Dey
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Sihem Bakri, Indrakshi Dey, Harun Siljak, Marco Ruffini, Nicola Marchetti
2025 conf
CITS
Anwar Ahmed Khan, Farid Naït-Abdesselam, Indrakshi Dey
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Indrakshi Dey, Nicola Marchetti
2025 conf
CITS
Shama Siddiqui, Indrakshi Dey
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Ilias Cherkaoui, Indrakshi Dey
2025 J jnl
IET Quantum Commun.
Indrakshi Dey, Nicola Marchetti
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Ilias Cherkaoui, S. Belabssir, Jerry Horgan, Indrakshi Dey
2025 conf
ICECET
Yan Zhang, Indrakshi Dey, Nicola Marchetti
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Surya Jayakumar, Kieran Sullivan, John McLaughlin, Christine O'Meara, Indrakshi Dey
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Anwar Ahmed Khan, Shama Siddiqui, Indrakshi Dey
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Indrakshi Dey, Ilias Cherkaoui, Mohamed Khalafalla Hassan
2025 J jnl
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Ilias Cherkaoui, Ciaran Clarke, Jerry Horgan, Indrakshi Dey
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Darren Leniston, David Ryan, Ciaran Malone, Indrakshi Dey
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Nirmal D. Wickramasinghe, John Dooley, Dirk Pesch, Indrakshi Dey
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Malik Faizan, P. J. White, Indrakshi Dey
2024 J jnl
J. Comput. Networks Commun.
Shama Siddiqui, Anwar Ahmed Khan, Muhammad Shoaib Siddiqui, Indrakshi Dey
2024 J jnl
J. Univers. Comput. Sci.
Anwar Ahmed Khan, Shama Siddiqui, Indrakshi Dey
2024 Misc conf
QCE
Athira Kalavampara Raghunadhan, Matheus Guedes de Andrade, Don Towsley, Indrakshi Dey, Daniel Kilperl, Nicola Marchetti
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Indrakshi Dey, Nicola Marchetti
2024 J jnl
IEEE Wirel. Commun.
Indrakshi Dey, Nicola Marchetti, Marcello Caleffi, Angela Sara Cacciapuoti
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Yan Zhang, Indrakshi Dey, Nicola Marchetti
2024 J jnl
IET Wirel. Sens. Syst.
Shama Siddiqui, Anwar Ahmed Khan, Farid Naït-Abdesselam, Shamsul Arfeen Qasmi, Adnan Akhundzada, Indrakshi Dey
2023 B conf
PIMRC
Indrakshi Dey, Harun Siljak, Nicola Marchetti
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Indrakshi Dey, Nicola Marchetti
2023 conf
ICIIS
Indrakshi Dey, Nicola Marchetti
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Indrakshi Dey, Nicola Marchetti, Marcello Caleffi, Angela Sara Cacciapuoti
2023 J jnl
IEEE Internet Things Mag.
Indrakshi Dey, Nicola Marchetti
2023 B conf
GLOBECOM
Nirmal D. Wickramasinghe, Indrakshi Dey
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Shama Siddiqui, Anwar Ahmed Khan, Qammer H. Abbasi, Muhammad Ali Imran, Indrakshi Dey
2022 ch.
Wireless Mesh Networks for IoT and Smart Cities
Indrakshi Dey, George A. Ropokis, Nicola Marchetti
2022 ch.
Wireless Mesh Networks for IoT and Smart Cities
Shama Siddiqui, Anwar Ahmed Khan, Indrakshi Dey
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Mouli Chakraborty, Harun Siljak, Indrakshi Dey, Nicola Marchetti
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Indrakshi Dey, Nicola Marchetti
2022 B conf
PIMRC
Indrakshi Dey, Nicola Marchetti
2021 B conf
GLOBECOM
Shama Siddiqui, Anwar Ahmed Khan, Farid Naït-Abdesselam, Indrakshi Dey
2021 conf
ICC
Shama Siddiqui, Anwar Ahmed Khan, Farid Naït-Abdesselam, Indrakshi Dey
2021 B conf
IWCMC
Anwar Ahmed Khan, Shama Siddiqui, Shahid Munir Shah, Farid Naït-Abdesselam, Indrakshi Dey
2021 B conf
GLOBECOM
Shama Siddiqui, Farid Naït-Abdesselam, Anwar Ahmed Khan, Indrakshi Dey
2021 conf
6G-ABS@MobiCom
Shama Siddiqui, Anwar Ahmed Khan, Kapal Dev, Indrakshi Dey
2021 J jnl
Frontiers Commun. Networks
Shama Siddiqui, Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir, Anwar Ahmed Khan, Indrakshi Dey
2021 J jnl
IEEE Commun. Lett.
Indrakshi Dey, Hem Dutt Joshi, Nicola Marchetti
2020 J jnl
IEEE Internet Things J.
M. Majid Butt, Indrakshi Dey, Merim Dzaferagic, Maria Murphy, Nicholas J. Kaminski, Nicola Marchetti
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Indrakshi Dey, Hem Dutt Joshi, Nicola Marchetti
2020 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Commun.
Indrakshi Dey, Pierluigi Salvo Rossi, Muhammad Majid Butt, Nicola Marchetti
2020 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun.
Indrakshi Dey, Domenico Ciuonzo, Pierluigi Salvo Rossi
2019 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas.
Indrakshi Dey, Muhammad Majid Butt, Nicola Marchetti
2018 B conf
PIMRC
Indrakshi Dey, Zhixing Zhao, M. Majid Butt, Nicola Marchetti
2018 B conf
PIMRC
Indrakshi Dey, Geoffrey G. Messier, Sebastian Magierowski
2017 J jnl
CoRR
Indrakshi Dey, Geoffrey G. Messier, Sebastian Magierowski
2017 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Commun.
Indrakshi Dey, Geoffrey G. Messier, Sebastian Magierowski
2017 J jnl
IEEE Commun. Lett.
Indrakshi Dey, Pierluigi Salvo Rossi
2016 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol.
Indrakshi Dey, Theodoros A. Tsiftsis, Corbett Rowell
2016 conf
VTC Fall
Indrakshi Dey, Geoffrey G. Messier, Sebastian Magierowski
2016 B conf
PIMRC
Indrakshi Dey, Ronald Y. Chang
2016 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol.
Indrakshi Dey, Geoffrey G. Messier, Sebastian Magierowski
2016 J jnl
CoRR
Indrakshi Dey, Geoffrey G. Messier, Sebastian Magierowski
2015
Indrakshi Dey
2014 J jnl
IEEE Wirel. Commun. Lett.
Indrakshi Dey, Geoffrey G. Messier, Sebastian Magierowski
2014 B conf
GLOBECOM
Indrakshi Dey, Geoffrey G. Messier, Sebastian Magierowski
2014 conf
VTC Fall
Indrakshi Dey, Geoffrey G. Messier, Sebastian Magierowski
2014 conf
VTC Fall
Indrakshi Dey, Geoffrey G. Messier, Sebastian Magierowski
2011 conf
VTC Spring
Peichang Zhang, Indrakshi Dey, Shinya Sugiura, Sheng Chen
redb/extractors/js_extractors/js_strings.py
← Index redb/extractors/js_extractors/js_strings.py python
import base64
import bisect
import inspect
import re
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from typing import Any

from redb.extractors.enum import Tag
from redb.extractors.js_extractor import JSExtractor
from redb.extractors.js_extractors.js_patterns import STRING_PATTERNS, line_offsets

# Local aliases for the compiled patterns this extractor uses. Defined and
# compiled exactly once in js_patterns.STRING_PATTERNS.
_HEX_STRING_RE = STRING_PATTERNS["hex_escape_seq"]
_UNICODE_STRING_RE = STRING_PATTERNS["unicode_escape_seq"]
_CHARCODE_RE = STRING_PATTERNS["charcode_call"]
_BASE64_STRING_RE = STRING_PATTERNS["base64_quoted"]
_CONCAT_STRING_RE = STRING_PATTERNS["concat_chain"]

# Tokeniser used inside _reconstruct_concat to pull each quoted part out of a
# matched concat chain. Compiled once at module load (was recompiled on every
# concat match before).
_CONCAT_TOKEN_RE = re.compile(r'["\']([^"\']*)["\']')


class JSStringsExtractor(JSExtractor):

    def __init__(
        self, filepath, log, exporters=None, index_prefix=None,
        known_benign=False, known_malicious=False, source=None, context=None,
    ):
        super().__init__(
            filepath, log, exporters, index_prefix,
            known_benign, known_malicious, source, context=context,
        )
        self.string_findings = None
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

    def tag(self):
        return Tag.JS_STRINGS.value

    def _decode_hex_string(self, hex_str):
        """Decode \\x41\\x42 style hex strings."""
        try:
            # Remove \\x prefix and decode
            clean = hex_str.replace('\\x', '')
            return bytes.fromhex(clean).decode('utf-8', errors='replace')
        except Exception:
            return None

    def _decode_unicode_string(self, uni_str):
        """Decode \\u0041\\u0042 style unicode strings."""
        try:
            return uni_str.encode('utf-8').decode('unicode_escape')
        except Exception:
            return None

    def _decode_charcode(self, charcode_str):
        """Decode String.fromCharCode(72, 101, 108, ...) sequences."""
        try:
            codes = [int(c.strip()) for c in charcode_str.split(',') if c.strip().isdigit()]
            return ''.join(chr(c) for c in codes if 0 <= c <= 0x10FFFF)
        except Exception:
            return None

    def _decode_base64(self, b64_str):
        """Attempt to decode base64 string."""
        try:
            decoded = base64.b64decode(b64_str)
            # Check if result is printable text
            text = decoded.decode('utf-8', errors='strict')
            # Only return if it looks like text (>80% printable)
            printable = sum(1 for c in text if c.isprintable() or c in '\n\r\t')
            if printable / len(text) > 0.8:
                return text
        except Exception:
            pass
        return None

    def _reconstruct_concat(self, concat_match):
        """Reconstruct concatenated string parts."""
        try:
            parts = _CONCAT_TOKEN_RE.findall(concat_match)
            return ''.join(parts)
        except Exception:
            return None

    def _find_line_number(self, match_start):
        """1-indexed line number for `match_start`, looked up in O(log L) via
        bisect over `self._line_offsets` (built once per extract() call).

        Replaces the historical `self.js_source[:match_start].count('\\n') + 1`
        which was O(N) per call and quadratic across all matches in a sample.
        """
        return bisect.bisect_right(self._line_offsets, match_start)

    def _scan_text(self, text):
        """Run every encoded-string pattern over `text` and return a list of
        finding dicts. Stateless apart from the per-call `_line_offsets` cache,
        which `_find_line_number` reads — callers must reset it before invoking
        this so line numbers reference the text being scanned, not the previous
        one.
        """
        findings = []

        # Hex-encoded strings
        for m in _HEX_STRING_RE.finditer(text):
            raw = m.group()
            decoded = self._decode_hex_string(raw)
            if decoded and len(decoded) >= 4:
                findings.append({
                    'string': decoded[:4000],
                    'string_raw': raw[:4000],
                    'string_encoding': 'hex',
                    'string_offset': self._find_line_number(m.start()),
                    'string_length': len(decoded),
                    'string_raw_length': len(raw),
                    'string_entropy': self._calculate_text_entropy(decoded),
                })

        # Unicode-encoded strings
        for m in _UNICODE_STRING_RE.finditer(text):
            raw = m.group()
            decoded = self._decode_unicode_string(raw)
            if decoded and len(decoded) >= 3:
                findings.append({
                    'string': decoded[:4000],
                    'string_raw': raw[:4000],
                    'string_encoding': 'unicode',
                    'string_offset': self._find_line_number(m.start()),
                    'string_length': len(decoded),
                    'string_raw_length': len(raw),
                    'string_entropy': self._calculate_text_entropy(decoded),
                })

        # String.fromCharCode sequences
        for m in _CHARCODE_RE.finditer(text):
            raw = m.group()
            decoded = self._decode_charcode(m.group(1))
            if decoded and len(decoded) >= 4:
                findings.append({
                    'string': decoded[:4000],
                    'string_raw': raw[:4000],
                    'string_encoding': 'charcode',
                    'string_offset': self._find_line_number(m.start()),
                    'string_length': len(decoded),
                    'string_raw_length': len(raw),
                    'string_entropy': self._calculate_text_entropy(decoded),
                })

        # Base64-encoded strings
        for m in _BASE64_STRING_RE.finditer(text):
            raw = m.group(0)
            b64_val = m.group(1)
            decoded = self._decode_base64(b64_val)
            if decoded and len(decoded) >= 10:
                findings.append({
                    'string': decoded[:4000],
                    'string_raw': raw[:4000],
                    'string_encoding': 'base64',
                    'string_offset': self._find_line_number(m.start()),
                    'string_length': len(decoded),
                    'string_raw_length': len(raw),
                    'string_entropy': self._calculate_text_entropy(decoded),
                })

        # Concatenated strings (reassembled)
        for m in _CONCAT_STRING_RE.finditer(text):
            raw = m.group()
            reconstructed = self._reconstruct_concat(raw)
            if reconstructed and len(reconstructed) >= 20:
                findings.append({
                    'string': reconstructed[:4000],
                    'string_raw': raw[:4000],
                    'string_encoding': 'concat',
                    'string_offset': self._find_line_number(m.start()),
                    'string_length': len(reconstructed),
                    'string_raw_length': len(raw),
                    'string_entropy': self._calculate_text_entropy(reconstructed),
                })

        return findings

    def extract(self):
        src = self.js_source
        if not src:
            return None

        # Pass 1: raw source. _line_offsets is keyed off whichever text is
        # currently being scanned so _find_line_number resolves to that text.
        self._line_offsets = line_offsets(src)
        findings = self._scan_text(src)

        # Pass 2: deobfuscated text, when the deobfuscator produced something
        # meaningfully different. Same patterns, but a different surface — for
        # samples where the encoded payload is hidden behind an outer wrapper
        # (e.g. array.join() + eval in Vjw0rm/WSH-RAT) only this pass yields
        # any rows at all.
        deobf_text, _ = self._context.deobfuscated
        if deobf_text and deobf_text != src:
            self._line_offsets = line_offsets(deobf_text)
            findings.extend(self._scan_text(deobf_text))

        if not findings:
            return None

        # Deduplicate by decoded string value (raw pass wins on collision: it
        # comes first in `findings`). A string that surfaces only in the
        # deobfuscated text still gets persisted, which is the whole point of
        # the second pass.
        seen_values = set()
        deduped = []
        for f in findings:
            val_key = f['string'][:100]
            if val_key not in seen_values:
                seen_values.add(val_key)
                deduped.append(f)

        self.string_findings = deduped[:500]  # Limit per file
        # Publish to the shared context so post-loop consumers (notably the IOC
        # plumbing in workers.py) can scrape the decoded strings without
        # holding a reference to this extractor instance.
        self._context.decoded_strings = self.string_findings
        return self.string_findings

    def prepare_export_data(self, exporter_type: str) -> Any:
        if exporter_type == "ClickHouseExporter":
            if not self.string_findings:
                return None

            data = []
            for f in self.string_findings:
                data.append([
                    self.sha256,
                    f['string'],
                    f['string_raw'],
                    f['string_encoding'],
                    f['string_offset'],
                    f['string_length'],
                    f['string_raw_length'],
                    f['string_entropy'],
                ])

            column_names = [
                "sha256",
                "string",
                "string_raw",
                "string_encoding",
                "string_offset",
                "string_length",
                "string_raw_length",
                "string_entropy",
            ]

            column_type_names = [
                "FixedString(64)",
                "String",
                "String",
                "LowCardinality(String)",
                "UInt64",
                "UInt32",
                "UInt32",
                "Float32",
            ]

            return (data, column_names, column_type_names)

    def get_clickhouse_table(self) -> str:
        return "code_binja_strings_raw"