J. Kyle Medley

11 papers Journal 11
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Bilal Shaikh, Lucian P. Smith, Dan Vasilescu, Gnaneswara Marupilla, Michael Wilson, Eran Agmon, Henry Agnew, Steven S. Andrews, Azraf Anwar, Moritz E. Beber, Frank T. Bergmann, David Brooks, Lutz Brusch, Laurence Calzone, Kiri Choi, Joshua Cooper, John Detloff, Brian Drawert, Michel Dumontier, G. Bard Ermentrout, James R. Faeder, Andrew P. Freiburger, Fabian Fröhlich, Akira Funahashi, Alan Garny, John H. Gennari, Padraig Gleeson, Anne Goelzer, Zachary B. Haiman, Joseph L. Hellerstein, Stefan Hoops, Jon C. Ison, Diego Jahn, Henry V. Jakubowski, Ryann Jordan, Matús Kalas, Matthias König, Wolfram Liebermeister, Synchon Mandal, Robert A. McDougal, J. Kyle Medley, Pedro Mendes, Robert Müller, Chris J. Myers, Aurélien Naldi, Tung V. N. Nguyen, David P. Nickerson, Brett G. Olivier, Drashti Patoliya, Loïc Paulevé, Linda R. Petzold, Ankita Priya, Anand K. Rampadarath, Johann M. Rohwer, Ali Sinan Saglam, Dilawar Singh, Ankur Sinha, Jacky L. Snoep, Hugh Sorby, Ryan K. Spangler, Jörn Starruß, Payton J. Thomas, David D. van Niekerk, Daniel Weindl, Fengkai Zhang, Anna Zhukova, Arthur P. Goldberg, Michael L. Blinov, Herbert M. Sauro, Ion I. Moraru, Jonathan R. Karr
2022 J jnl
Nucleic Acids Res.
Bilal Shaikh, Lucian P. Smith, Dan Vasilescu, Gnaneswara Marupilla, Michael Wilson, Eran Agmon, Henry Agnew, Steven S. Andrews, Azraf Anwar, Moritz E. Beber, Frank T. Bergmann, David Brooks, Lutz Brusch, Laurence Calzone, Kiri Choi, Joshua Cooper, John Detloff, Brian Drawert, Michel Dumontier, G. Bard Ermentrout, James R. Faeder, Andrew P. Freiburger, Fabian Fröhlich, Akira Funahashi, Alan Garny, John H. Gennari, Padraig Gleeson, Anne Goelzer, Zachary B. Haiman, Jan Hasenauer, Joseph L. Hellerstein, Henning Hermjakob, Stefan Hoops, Jon C. Ison, Diego Jahn, Henry V. Jakubowski, Ryann Jordan, Matús Kalas, Matthias König, Wolfram Liebermeister, Rahuman S. Malik-Sheriff, Synchon Mandal, Robert A. McDougal, J. Kyle Medley, Pedro Mendes, Robert Müller, Chris J. Myers, Aurélien Naldi, Tung V. N. Nguyen, David P. Nickerson, Brett G. Olivier, Drashti Patoliya, Loïc Paulevé, Linda R. Petzold, Ankita Priya, Anand K. Rampadarath, Johann M. Rohwer, Ali Sinan Saglam, Dilawar Singh, Ankur Sinha, Jacky L. Snoep, Hugh Sorby, Ryan K. Spangler, Jörn Starruß, Payton J. Thomas, David D. van Niekerk, Daniel Weindl, Fengkai Zhang, Anna Zhukova, Arthur P. Goldberg, James C. Schaff, Michael L. Blinov, Herbert M. Sauro, Ion I. Moraru, Jonathan R. Karr
2020 J jnl
PLoS Comput. Biol.
J. Kyle Medley, Jonathan J. Y. Teo, Sung Sik Woo, Joseph L. Hellerstein, Rahul Sarpeshkar, Herbert M. Sauro
2020 J jnl
Biosyst.
J. Kyle Medley, Joseph L. Hellerstein, Herbert M. Sauro
2018 J jnl
PLoS Comput. Biol.
J. Kyle Medley, Kiri Choi, Matthias König, Lucian P. Smith, Stanley Gu, Joseph L. Hellerstein, Stuart C. Sealfon, Herbert M. Sauro
2018 J jnl
Biosyst.
Kiri Choi, J. Kyle Medley, Matthias König, Kaylene Stocking, Lucian P. Smith, Stanley Gu, Herbert M. Sauro
2016 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng.
J. Kyle Medley, Arthur P. Goldberg, Jonathan R. Karr
2016 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng.
Dagmar Waltemath, Jonathan R. Karr, Frank T. Bergmann, Vijayalakshmi Chelliah, Michael Hucka, Marcus Krantz, Wolfram Liebermeister, Pedro Mendes, Chris J. Myers, Pinar Pir, Begum Alaybeyoglu, Naveen K. Aranganathan, Kambiz Baghalian, Arne T. Bittig, Paulo E. Pinto Burke, Matteo Cantarelli, Yin Hoon Chew, Rafael S. Costa, Joseph Cursons, Tobias Czauderna, Arthur P. Goldberg, Harold F. Gómez, Jens Hahn, Tuure Hameri, Daniel F. Hernandez Gardiol, Denis Kazakiewicz, Ilya Kiselev, Vincent Knight-Schrijver, Christian Knüpfer, Matthias König, Daewon Lee, Audald Lloret-Villas, Nikita Mandrik, J. Kyle Medley, Bertrand Moreau, Hojjat Naderi-Meshkin, Sucheendra K. Palaniappan, Daniel Priego-Espinosa, Martin Scharm, Mahesh Sharma, Kieran Smallbone, Natalie J. Stanford, Je-Hoon Song, Tom Theile, Milenko Tokic, Namrata Tomar, Vasundra Touré, Jannis Uhlendorf, Thawfeek M. Varusai, Leandro H. Watanabe, Florian Wendland, Markus Wolfien, James T. Yurkovich, Yan Zhu, Argyris Zardilis, Anna Zhukova, Falk Schreiber
2016 J jnl
J. Bioinform. Comput. Biol.
Kiri Choi, Lucian P. Smith, J. Kyle Medley, Herbert M. Sauro
2015 J jnl
CoRR
Endre T. Somogyi, Jean-Marie Bouteiller, James A. Glazier, Matthias König, J. Kyle Medley, Maciej H. Swat, Herbert M. Sauro
2015 J jnl
Bioinform.
Endre T. Somogyi, Jean-Marie Bouteiller, James A. Glazier, Matthias König, J. Kyle Medley, Maciej H. Swat, Herbert M. Sauro
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()