James L. Garrison

61 papers C 36Journal 25
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2024 J jnl
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens.
James Gaudreau, Ethan Raines, Joel T. Johnson, James L. Garrison, Jeffrey D. Ouellette, Rashmi Shah
2023 C conf
IGARSS
Seho Kim, James L. Garrison
2023 J jnl
IEEE Geosci. Remote. Sens. Lett.
James L. Garrison, Benjamin Nold, Dallas Masters, Conor Brown, Jordan Bridgeman, Justin R. Mansell, Manuel S. Vega, Rajat Bindlish, Jeffrey Piepmeier, Sachidananda R. Babu
2023 J jnl
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens.
Yu-Ming Yang, Abi Komanduru, James L. Garrison
2023 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens.
Seho Kim, James L. Garrison, Mehmet Kurum
2022 C conf
IGARSS
Benjamin Nold, Manuel A. Vega, James L. Garrison
2022 C conf
IGARSS
James L. Garrison, Justin R. Mansell, Benjamin S. Nold, Rashmi Shah, Manuel A. Vega, Seho Kim, Juan C. Raymond, Rajat Bindlish, Mehmet Kurum, Jeffrey Piepmeier, Roger Banting
2022 C conf
IGARSS
Seho Kim, Eric P. Smith, Benjamin R. Nold, Archana S. Choudhari, James L. Garrison
2021 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens.
Feixiong Huang, James L. Garrison, S. Mark Leidner, Bachir Annane, Ross N. Hoffman, Giuseppe Grieco, Ad Stoffelen
2021 C conf
IGARSS
Dylan R. Boyd, Mehmet Kurum, James L. Garrison, Benjamin Nold, Manuel S. Vega, Rajat Bindlish, Jeffrey Piepmeier
2021 C conf
IGARSS
Seho Kim, James L. Garrison
2021 C conf
IGARSS
James L. Garrison, Rashmi Shah, Benjamin Nold, Justin R. Mansell, Manuel A. Vega, Juan C. Raymond, Rajat Bindlish, Mehmet Kurum, Jeffrey Piepmeier, Seho Kim, Roger Banting, Kameron Larsen
2020 C conf
IGARSS
James L. Garrison, Rashmi Shah, Seho Kim, Jeffrey Piepmeier, Manuel A. Vega, David A. Spencer, Roger Banting, Juan C. Raymond, Benjamin Nold, Kameron Larsen, Rajat Bindlish
2020 C conf
IGARSS
Feixiong Huang, James L. Garrison, S. Mark Leidner, Bachir Annane, Giuseppe Grieco, Ad Stoffelen, Ross N. Hoffman
2020 J jnl
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens.
Dylan R. Boyd, Ali Cafer Gürbüz, Mehmet Kurum, James L. Garrison, Benjamin Nold, Jeffrey R. Piepmeier, Manuel Vega, Rajat Bindlish
2020 C conf
IGARSS
Seho Kim, James L. Garrison
2020 J jnl
Remote. Sens.
Dylan Boyd, Mehmet Kurum, Orhan Eroglu, Ali Cafer Gürbüz, James L. Garrison, Benjamin Nold, Manuel A. Vega, Jeffrey R. Piepmeier, Rajat Bindlish
2019 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens.
Priscilla N. Mohammed, Adam J. Schoenwald, Randeep Pannu, Jeffrey R. Piepmeier, Damon Bradley, Soon Chye Ho, Rashmi Shah, James L. Garrison
2019 C conf
IGARSS
Dylan R. Boyd, Manuel A. Vega, Rajat Bindlish, Mehmet Kurum, James L. Garrison, Benjamin Nold, Ali Cafer Gürbüz, Bryan LaGrone, Orhan Eroglu, Robiulhossain Mdrafi, Jeffrey Piepmeier
2019 C conf
IGARSS
James L. Garrison, Rajat Bindlish, Jeffrey Piepmeier, Rashmi Shah, Manuel A. Vega, David A. Spencer, Roger Banting, Cynthia M. Firman, Benjamin Nold, Kameron Larsen
2019 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens.
Feixiong Huang, James L. Garrison, Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez, Andrew J. O'Brien, Kaitie M. Schoenfeldt, Soon Chye Ho, Han Zhang
2019 J jnl
IEEE Geosci. Remote. Sens. Lett.
Soon Chye Ho, Rashmi Shah, James L. Garrison, Priscilla N. Mohammed, Adam J. Schoenwald, Randeep Pannu, Jeffrey R. Piepmeier
2018 C conf
IGARSS
Feixiong Huang, James L. Garrison, Mark Leidner, Bachir Annane, Ross N. Hoffman
2018 C conf
IGARSS
Rashmi Shah, James L. Garrison, Zhijin Li, Soon Chye Ho
2018 C conf
IGARSS
Han Zhang, James L. Garrison, Derek M. Burrage
2018 C conf
IGARSS
James L. Garrison, Mehmet Kurum, Benjamin Nold, Jeffrey Piepmeier, Manuel A. Vega, Rajat Bindlish, Garett Pignotti
2017 C conf
IGARSS
Rashmi Shah, James L. Garrison, Soon Chye Ho, Priscilla N. Mohammed, Jeffrey R. Piepmeier, Adam J. Schoenwald, Randeep Pannu, Asmita Korde-Patel, Damon Bradley
2017 J jnl
IEEE Geosci. Remote. Sens. Lett.
Rashmi Shah, James L. Garrison
2017 J jnl
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens.
Simon H. Yueh, Xiaolan Xu, Rashmi Shah, Yunjin Kim, James L. Garrison, Abi Komanduru, Kelly Elder
2017 C conf
IGARSS
James L. Garrison, Yao-Cheng Lin, Benjamin Nold, Jeffrey R. Piepmeier, Manuel A. Vega, Matthew A. Fritts, Cornelis F. Du Toit, Joseph J. Knuble
2017 C conf
IGARSS
Jeffrey Piepmeier, Manuel Vega, Matthew A. Fritts, Cornelis F. Du Toit, Joseph J. Knuble, Yao-Cheng Lin, Benjamin Nold, James L. Garrison
2016 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens.
James L. Garrison
2016 C conf
IGARSS
Joseph J. Knuble, Jeffrey Piepmeier, Manohar Deshpande, Cornelus Du Toit, James L. Garrison, Yao-Cheng Lin, Georges Stienne, Stephen J. Katzberg, George Alikakos
2016 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens.
Rashmi Shah, James L. Garrison, Alejandro Egido, Giulio Ruffini
2016 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens.
Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez, James L. Garrison
2016 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens.
Kuo-Nung Wang, James L. Garrison, Ulvi Acikoz, Jennifer S. Haase, Brian J. Murphy, Paytsar Muradyan, Tyler Lulich
2016 C conf
IGARSS
Han Zhang, James L. Garrison, Rozaine Wijekularatne, James G. Warnecke
2015 J jnl
IEEE Geosci. Remote. Sens. Lett.
Jordi Xing, Seebany Datta-Barua, James L. Garrison, Aaron J. Ridley, Boris Pervan
2014 C conf
IGARSS
Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez, James L. Garrison
2014 J jnl
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens.
Rashmi Shah, James L. Garrison
2014 J jnl
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens.
James L. Garrison, Estel Cardellach, Scott Gleason, Stephen J. Katzberg
2014 C conf
IGARSS
Yu-Ming Yang, Attila Komjathy, Xing Meng, James L. Garrison
2013 C conf
IGARSS
Rashmi Shah, James L. Garrison
2013 C conf
IGARSS
Kuo-Nung Wang, Paytsar Muradyan, James L. Garrison, Jennifer S. Haase, Brian J. Murphy, Ulvi Acikoz, Tyler Lulich
2012 C conf
IGARSS
Rashmi Shah, James L. Garrison
2012 J jnl
IEEE Geosci. Remote. Sens. Lett.
Rashmi Shah, James L. Garrison, Michael S. Grant
2012 C conf
IGARSS
James L. Garrison
2011 C conf
IGARSS
Rashmi Shah, James L. Garrison, Michael S. Grant
2011 C conf
IGARSS
Yu-Ming Yang, James L. Garrison, See-Chen Lee
2011 J jnl
IEEE Geosci. Remote. Sens. Lett.
James L. Garrison, Justin K. Voo, Simon Yueh, Michael S. Grant, Alexander G. Fore, Jennifer S. Haase
2010 C conf
IGARSS
Rashmi Shah, James L. Garrison, Michael S. Grant, Stephen J. Katzberg, Geng Tian
2010 C conf
IGARSS
Yu-Ming Yang, James L. Garrison, See-Chen Lee
2007 C conf
IGARSS
James L. Garrison, Michael Walker, Jennifer S. Haase, Tyler Lulich, Feiqin Xie, Brian D. Ventre, Michael H. Boehme, Ben Wilmhoff, Stephen J. Katzberg
2006 J jnl
IEEE Geosci. Remote. Sens. Lett.
Huaizu You, James L. Garrison, Gregory Heckler, Dino Smajlovic
2005 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens.
Donald R. Thompson, Tanos M. Elfouhaily, James L. Garrison
2004 C conf
IGARSS
Huaizu You, James L. Garrison, Gregory Heckler, Dino Smajlovic
2004 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens.
Huaizu You, James L. Garrison, Gregory Heckler, Valery U. Zavorotny
2003 C conf
IGARSS
James L. Garrison
2003 C conf
IGARSS
Huaizu You, Gregory Heckler, James L. Garrison, Valery U. Zavorotny
2002 C conf
IGARSS
James L. Garrison, Luca Bertuccelli
2002 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens.
James L. Garrison, Attila Komjathy, Valery U. Zavorotny, Stephen J. Katzberg
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"