Jacob Thebault-Spieker

36 papers A* 7A 3B 1C 2Journal 18Unranked 5
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 A* conf
CHI
Yaxuan Yin, Jacob Thebault-Spieker
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Zihan Gao, Mohsin Y. K. Yousufi, Jacob Thebault-Spieker
2026 A* conf
AAAI
Zihan Gao, Yifei Xu, Jacob Thebault-Spieker
2026 A* conf
CHI
Zihan Gao, Jacob Thebault-Spieker
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Zihan Gao, Justin Cranshaw, Jacob Thebault-Spieker
2025 J jnl
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.
Yaxuan Yin, Jacob Thebault-Spieker
2025 conf
CSCW Companion
Zihan Gao, Jiaying Liu, Yifei Xu, Jacob Thebault-Spieker
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Zihan Gao, Yifei Xu, Jacob Thebault-Spieker
2025 J jnl
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.
Yaxuan Yin, Jacob Thebault-Spieker
2024 J jnl
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.
Jean Hardy, Jacob Thebault-Spieker
2024 J jnl
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.
Zihan Gao, Jacob Thebault-Spieker
2024 J jnl
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.
Zihan Gao, Justin Cranshaw, Jacob Thebault-Spieker
2024 J jnl
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.
Yaxuan Yin, Longjie Guo, Jacob Thebault-Spieker
2024 conf
CSCW Companion
Longjie Guo, Yaxuan Yin, Jacob Thebault-Spieker
2023 conf
FAccT
Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Sukrit Venkatagiri, Naomi Mine, Kurt Luther
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Sukrit Venkatagiri, Naomi Mine, Kurt Luther
2021 conf
CSCW Companion
Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Stevie Chancellor, Michael Ann DeVito, Niloufar Salehi, Alex Leavitt, David R. Karger, Katta Spiel
2021 J jnl
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.
Molly G. Hickman, Viral Pasad, Harsh Kamalesh Sanghavi, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Sang Won Lee
2020 J jnl
ACM Trans. Soc. Comput.
Kurt Luther, Andrea L. Kavanaugh, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Judd Antin
2020 C conf
ICTD
Molly G. Hickman, Viral Pasad, Harsh Sanghavi, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Sang Won Lee
2019 J jnl
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.
Sukrit Venkatagiri, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Rachel Kohler, John Purviance, Rifat Sabbir Mansur, Kurt Luther
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Ashley Colley, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Allen Yilun Lin, Donald Degraen, Benjamin Fischman, Jonna Häkkilä, Kate Kuehl, Valentina Nisi, Nuno Jardim Nunes, Nina Wenig, Dirk Wenig, Brent J. Hecht, Johannes Schöning
2018 A* conf
CHI
Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Aaron Halfaker, Loren G. Terveen, Brent J. Hecht
2018 C conf
OpenSym
Andrew Hall, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Shilad Sen, Brent J. Hecht, Loren G. Terveen
2018 B conf
GROUP
Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Brent J. Hecht, Loren G. Terveen
2017 A* conf
CHI
Andrew Hall, Sarah McRoberts, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Yilun Lin, Shilad Sen, Brent J. Hecht, Loren G. Terveen
2017 J jnl
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.
S. Andrew Sheppard, Julian Turner, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Haiyi Zhu, Loren G. Terveen
2017 J jnl
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.
Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Daniel Kluver, Maximilian A. Klein, Aaron Halfaker, Brent J. Hecht, Loren G. Terveen, Joseph A. Konstan
2017 A* conf
CHI
Ashley Colley, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Allen Yilun Lin, Donald Degraen, Benjamin Fischman, Jonna Häkkilä, Kate Kuehl, Valentina Nisi, Nuno Jardim Nunes, Nina Wenig, Dirk Wenig, Brent J. Hecht, Johannes Schöning
2017 J jnl
ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact.
Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Loren G. Terveen, Brent J. Hecht
2017 A conf
ICWSM
Hannah Jean Miller, Daniel Kluver, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Loren G. Terveen, Brent J. Hecht
2016 A conf
ICWSM
Hannah Jean Miller, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Shuo Chang, Isaac L. Johnson, Loren G. Terveen, Brent J. Hecht
2016 conf
CSCW Companion
Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Angbang Xu, Jilin Chen, Jalal Mahmud, Jeffrey Nichols
2015 A conf
CSCW
Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Loren G. Terveen, Brent J. Hecht
2015 A* conf
WWW
Aaron Halfaker, Oliver Keyes, Daniel Kluver, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Tien T. Nguyen, Kenneth Shores, Anuradha Uduwage, Morten Warncke-Wang
2014 J jnl
CoRR
Aaron Halfaker, Oliver Keyes, Daniel Kluver, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Tien T. Nguyen, Kenneth Shores, Anuradha Uduwage, Morten Warncke-Wang
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)