Jalal Almhana

71 papers B 21C 1Misc 1Journal 16Unranked 32
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 B conf
GLOBECOM
Sinda Besrour, Andy Couturier, Jalal Almhana
2024 B conf
IWCMC
Sinda Besrour, Yogesh Surapaneni, Gael S. Mubibya, Fahim Ashkar, Jalal Almhana
2024 B conf
IWCMC
Sinda Besrour, Gael S. Mubibya, Zikuan Liu, Jalal Almhana
2024 B conf
GLOBECOM
Sinda Besrour, Gael S. Mubibya, Chayma Ben Abdeljelil, Jalal Almhana
2024 conf
ICC
Sinda Besrour, Suvam Dey, Gael S. Mubibya, Jalal Almhana
2023 conf
GLOBECOM (Workshops)
Sinda Besrour, Gael S. Mubibya, Zikuan Liu, Jalal Almhana
2023 B conf
IWCMC
Gael S. Mubibya, Jalal Almhana, Zikuan Liu
2023 conf
ICC
Mohanapriya Singaravelu, Gael S. Mubibya, Jalal Almhana
2023 B conf
WiMob
Lutful Karim, Md Nour Hossain, Nargis Khan, Mohammad Shorfuzzaman, Jalal Almhana, Nidal Nasser
2022 conf
ICC
Gael S. Mubibya, Sinda Besrour, Jalal Almhana
2022 B conf
IWCMC
Gael S. Mubibya, Jalal Almhana
2022 conf
ICC
Gael S. Mubibya, Jalal Almhana
2022 B conf
GLOBECOM
Bhaskar Das, Jalal Almhana, Lutful Karim
2021 B conf
IWCMC
Lucas Rouquier, Lutful Karim, Jalal Almhana
2020 B conf
IWCMC
Arthur Mille, Lutful Karim, Jalal Almhana, Nargis Khan
2019 B conf
IWCMC
Koffi V. C. Kevin de Souza, Catherine Almhana, Jalal Almhana, Lutful Karim
2019 conf
ICC
Jean-Franois Laplante, Bhaskar Das, Jalal Almhana
2018 B conf
GLOBECOM
Mohamed Akram Ameddah, Bhaskar Das, Jalal Almhana
2018 conf
ICC
Jihed Eddine Said, Jalal Almhana, Lutful Karim
2018 B conf
IWCMC
Mohamed Akram Ameddah, Bhaskar Das, Jalal Almhana
2018 B conf
IWCMC
Koffi V. C. Kevin de Souza, Jalal Almhana, Philippe Fournier-Viger
2018 J jnl
CoRR
Bhaskar Das, Jalal Almhana
2017 J jnl
Comput. Networks
Bhaskar Das, Jalal Almhana
2017 conf
ICC
Catherine Almhana, Vartan Choulakian, Jalal Almhana
2017 B conf
IWCMC
Mohammed S. Al-kahtani, Lutful Karim, Jalal Almhana
2017 conf
WICON
Koffi V. C. Kevin de Souza, Catherine Almhana, Philippe Fournier-Viger, Jalal Almhana
2016 B conf
IWCMC
Jihed Eddine Said, Jalal Almhana, Lutful Karim
2016 J jnl
Wirel. Commun. Mob. Comput.
Marouane Sebgui, Jalal Almhana, Slimane Bah, Belhaj Elgraini
2016 J jnl
Bull. dInformatique Approfondie et Appl.
Jalal Almhana, Simon Delattre
2015 B conf
IWCMC
Marouane Sebgui, Jalal Almhana, Slimane Bah, Belhaj El Graini
2014 J jnl
Trans. Emerg. Telecommun. Technol.
Lutful Karim, Alagan Anpalagan, Nidal Nasser, Jalal Almhana, Isaac Woungang
2014 conf
ICC
Jihed Eddine Said, Lutful Karim, Jalal Almhana, Alagan Anpalagan
2014 conf
ICC
Marouane Sebgui, Jalal Almhana, Zikuan Liu, Slimane Bah, Belhaj El Graini
2014 conf
ICC
Sylvere Kwatirayo, Jalal Almhana, Z. Liu, Jad Siblini
2013 B conf
IWCMC
Sylvere Kwatirayo, Jalal Almhana, Zikuan Liu
2013 conf
GLOBECOM Workshops
Lutful Karim, Alagan Anpalagan, Nidal Nasser, Jalal Almhana, Isaac Woungang
2013 conf
ICC
Lutful Karim, Jalal Almhana, Nidal Nasser
2013 B conf
SECON
Sylvere Kwatirayo, Jalal Almhana, Zikuan Liu
2013 J jnl
Netw. Protoc. Algorithms
Lutful Karim, Alagan Anpalagan, Nidal Nasser, Jalal Almhana
2012 Misc conf
ICNC
Jalal Almhana, Zikuan Liu
2010 J jnl
Comput. Commun.
Jalal Almhana, Zikuan Liu, Robert McGorman
2009 J jnl
Wirel. Commun. Mob. Comput.
Zikuan Liu, Jalal Almhana, Robert McGorman
2008 conf
CNSR
Zikuan Liu, Jalal Almhana, Robert McGorman
2008 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol.
Zikuan Liu, Jalal Almhana, Robert McGorman
2008 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Autom. Control.
Zikuan Liu, Jalal Almhana, Vartan Choulakian, Robert McGorman
2008 conf
ICC
Jalal Almhana, Zikuan Liu, Changle Li, Robert McGorman
2007 conf
CNSR
Changle Li, Jalal Almhana, Jiandong Li, Zikuan Liu, Robert McGorman
2007 B conf
WCNC
Changle Li, Jalal Almhana, Jiandong Li, Zikuan Liu
2007 conf
CNSR
Zikuan Liu, Jalal Almhana, Robert McGorman, Changle Li
2007 conf
VTC Spring
Changle Li, Jalal Almhana, Jiandong Li, Zikuan Liu
2007 J jnl
IEEE Commun. Lett.
Zikuan Liu, Jalal Almhana, F. Wang, Robert McGorman
2006 conf
ICC
Jalal Almhana, Zikuan Liu, Vartan Choulakian, Robert McGorman
2006 J jnl
IEEE Commun. Lett.
Zikuan Liu, Jalal Almhana, Vartan Choulakian, Robert McGorman
2006 conf
CNSR
Jalal Almhana, Zikuan Liu, Robert McGorman, Benoit Lanteigne
2006 conf
CNSR
Robert McGorman, Jalal Almhana, Vartan Choulakian, Zikuan Liu
2006 C conf
AICCSA
Zikuan Liu, Jalal Almhana, Vartan Choulakian, Robert McGorman
2006 J jnl
Comput. Stat. Data Anal.
Zikuan Liu, Jalal Almhana, Vartan Choulakian, Robert McGorman
2006 conf
CNSR
Zikuan Liu, Jalal Almhana, Vartan Choulakian, Robert McGorman
2006 J jnl
Comput. Stat. Data Anal.
Vartan Choulakian, J. Allard, Jalal Almhana
2006 conf
CNSR
Zikuan Liu, Jalal Almhana, Vartan Choulakian, Robert McGorman
2005 conf
CNSR
Zikuan Liu, Jalal Almhana, Vartan Choulakian, Robert McGorman
2005 B conf
LCN
Jalal Almhana, Vartan Choulakian, Robert McGorman
2005 conf
CNSR
Zikuan Liu, Jalal Almhana, Vartan Choulakian, Robert McGorman
2005 conf
ICPS
Zikuan Liu, Jalal Almhana, Vartan Choulakian, Robert McGorman
2004 conf
CNSR
L. Pelletier, Jalal Almhana, Vartan Choulakian
2004 conf
ICPS
Zikuan Liu, Jalal Almhana, Vartan Choulakian, Robert McGorman
2004 conf
CNSR
Zikuan Liu, Jalal Almhana, Vartan Choulakian, Robert McGorman
2004 conf
CNSR
Robert McGorman, Jalal Almhana, Vartan Choulakian, Zikuan Liu, W. Jedidi
2002 conf
HPCS
Jalal Almhana, Vartan Choulakian
1995 J jnl
Simul.
Koen De Bosschere, Jalal Almhana
1993 J jnl
Bull. dInformatique Approfondie et Appl.
Jalal Almhana
redb/extractors/js_extractors/js_context.py
← Index redb/extractors/js_extractors/js_context.py python
"""Per-sample shared state for the JavaScript extractor pipeline.

A `JSContext` is built exactly once per JS sample (in `workers.py`) and threaded
into every extractor that runs against that sample. It owns the disk read, the
decoded source text, the line-split cache, the Shannon text-entropy figure, the
shared `scan_source()` results, and the pyjsparser AST. Each of those is
computed lazily through `cached_property` so an extractor that doesn't need a
particular artefact does not pay for it.

Without this object, every JS extractor instance redoes the same disk read,
decode, scan, and (for any consumer) AST parse. With it, every extractor
shares one set of results.

`JSExtractor.__init__` accepts the context via a `context=` kwarg; if absent
(e.g. unit tests instantiating an extractor directly with `source=...`) it
builds a fresh context from the constructor arguments. Either path produces a
fully-populated context, so extractor code can always rely on
`self._context.scan` / `self._context.ast` / etc.
"""

from __future__ import annotations

import math
from collections import Counter
from dataclasses import dataclass
from functools import cached_property
from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional

import chardet

from redb.extractors.js_extractors.js_patterns import scan_source


def decode_source(raw_bytes: bytes) -> str:
    """Decode raw JS bytes to text, honouring BOMs and falling back to chardet.

    Mirrors the historical `JSExtractor._decode_source` logic so existing tests
    continue to round-trip identically.
    """
    if not raw_bytes:
        return ""

    if raw_bytes[:3] == b"\xef\xbb\xbf":
        return raw_bytes[3:].decode("utf-8", errors="replace")
    if raw_bytes[:2] in (b"\xff\xfe", b"\xfe\xff"):
        return raw_bytes.decode("utf-16", errors="replace")

    try:
        return raw_bytes.decode("utf-8")
    except UnicodeDecodeError:
        pass

    try:
        detected = chardet.detect(raw_bytes)
        if detected and detected.get("encoding"):
            return raw_bytes.decode(detected["encoding"], errors="replace")
    except Exception:
        pass

    return raw_bytes.decode("latin-1", errors="replace")


def _text_entropy(text: str) -> float:
    """Shannon entropy of the character distribution of `text`, rounded to 4dp."""
    if not text:
        return 0.0
    counter = Counter(text)
    length = len(text)
    entropy = 0.0
    for count in counter.values():
        p = count / length
        if p > 0:
            entropy -= p * math.log2(p)
    return round(entropy, 4)


@dataclass
class JSContext:
    """Shared raw materials for one JS sample, consumed by every JS extractor.

    Cheap attributes (raw_bytes, source) are populated eagerly by the factory.
    Expensive ones (scan, ast) are cached_property — computed on first access
    and reused across every extractor that holds the same context.

    `content_type` is the magika label (e.g. `"javascript"`) carried alongside
    the source so the new code_text_content writer (and any future generic
    text-content writer) can record it without re-running magika. Defaults to
    `"javascript"` because by construction this context type is JS-specific;
    workers.py supplies the actual magika value when it builds the context.
    """

    filepath: str
    raw_bytes: bytes
    source: str
    log: Any = None
    content_type: str = "javascript"
    # Populated by JSStringsExtractor.extract() (the decoded/reconstructed
    # strings — hex/unicode/charcode/base64/concat unpacked into plaintext).
    # Read post-loop by the IOC plumbing in workers.py so any IOCs hidden
    # behind those encodings get scraped from the decoded form. Stays None
    # if JSStringsExtractor didn't run for this sample.
    decoded_strings: Optional[list] = None

    @cached_property
    def lines(self) -> List[str]:
        return self.source.splitlines() if self.source else []

    @cached_property
    def text_entropy(self) -> float:
        return _text_entropy(self.source)

    @cached_property
    def scan(self) -> Dict[str, Dict[str, object]]:
        """Result of running scan_source() exactly once over self.source."""
        return scan_source(self.source) if self.source else {}

    @cached_property
    def ast(self) -> Optional[Any]:
        """Lazy pyjsparser AST. Returns None if the parser is missing or fails.

        Extractors should treat None AST as "fall back to regex" — every
        AST-consuming extractor already handles that path.
        """
        if not self.source:
            return None
        try:
            import pyjsparser
            return pyjsparser.parse(self.source)
        except ImportError:
            if self.log is not None:
                self.log.debug("pyjsparser not installed, AST analysis skipped")
        except Exception as e:
            if self.log is not None:
                self.log.warning(f"AST parsing failed for {self.filepath}: {e}")
        return None

    @cached_property
    def deobfuscated(self) -> "tuple[Optional[str], Optional[str]]":
        """Run the configured JS deobfuscator (with jsbeautifier fallback) once
        per sample and cache the result. Returns `(text, normalizer_used)` or
        `(None, None)` if neither path produced output.

        Computed lazily on first access — samples whose pipeline never reads
        this don't pay the subprocess cost.
        """
        from redb.extractors.js_extractors.js_deobfuscator import deobfuscate
        return deobfuscate(self.source, self.log)

    @cached_property
    def scan_deobfuscated(self) -> Dict[str, Dict[str, object]]:
        """Result of running scan_source() exactly once over the deobfuscated
        text, keyed by PATTERNS only (FEATURE_PATTERNS are not consulted by
        the dual-pass consumers). Empty dict when there is no deobfuscated
        text or it equals the raw source.

        Two extractors consume the post-deobf API surface:
        `JSSuspiciousAPIsExtractor` (for revealed_by_deobf rows) and
        `JSDeobfuscationExtractor` (for the new_apis_found diff). Caching here
        means we scan the deobfuscated text once instead of twice per sample.
        """
        from redb.extractors.js_extractors.js_patterns import PATTERNS
        deobf_text, _ = self.deobfuscated
        if not deobf_text or deobf_text == self.source:
            return {}
        return scan_source(deobf_text, patterns=(PATTERNS,))

    @cached_property
    def xray(self):
        """Run @nodesecure/js-x-ray once per sample and cache the result.

        Returns an `XRayResult` (always — the function collapses every failure
        path to an empty result so callers don't have to special-case missing
        Node, missing package, timeouts, or parse errors). The
        `JSFeaturesExtractor` reads it for the obfuscator family name and for
        corroborating warning kinds; the heuristic falls back cleanly when
        `xray.obfuscator is None`.
        """
        from redb.extractors.js_extractors.js_xray import run
        return run(self.source, self.log)

    @classmethod
    def from_path(
        cls,
        filepath: str,
        log: Any = None,
        source: Optional[str] = None,
        raw_bytes: Optional[bytes] = None,
        content_type: str = "javascript",
    ) -> "JSContext":
        """Build a context from disk. `raw_bytes` and `source` are optional
        overrides — useful when the caller has already read or decoded the file.
        `content_type` is the magika label workers.py dispatched on; it lands
        on the context for the code_text_content writer to record.
        """
        if raw_bytes is None:
            with open(filepath, "rb") as f:
                raw_bytes = f.read()
        if source is None:
            source = decode_source(raw_bytes)
        return cls(
            filepath=filepath,
            raw_bytes=raw_bytes,
            source=source,
            log=log,
            content_type=content_type,
        )