James Lu

21 papers C 2Journal 15Unranked 4
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Samira Pakravan, Nikolaos Evangelou, Maxime Usdin, Logan Brooks, James Lu
2024 J jnl
Frontiers Artif. Intell.
Erick Velasquez, Nastya Kassir, Sravanthi Cheeti, Denison Kuruvilla, Rucha Sane, Steve Dang, Dale Miles, James Lu
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Mark Laurie, James Lu
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Omid Bazgir, Zichen Wang, Marc Hafner, James Lu
2023 conf
MLCB
You Wu, Omid Bazgir, Yongju Lee, Tommaso Biancalani, James Lu, Ehsan Hajiramezanali
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Sameer Sundrani, James Lu
2021 J jnl
Nat. Mach. Intell.
James Lu, Brendan Bender, Jin Y. Jin, Yuanfang Guan
2020 J jnl
PLoS Comput. Biol.
Jennifer L. Wilson, Dan Lu, Nick Corr, Aaron Fullerton, James Lu
2020 J jnl
CoRR
James Lu, Brendan Bender, Jin Y. Jin, Yuanfang Guan
2016 J jnl
J. Mach. Learn. Res.
Ricardo Henao, James Lu, Joseph E. Lucas, Jeffrey M. Ferranti, Lawrence Carin
2015 conf
NIPS
Ricardo Henao, Zhe Gan, James Lu, Lawrence Carin
2014 J jnl
PLoS Comput. Biol.
James Lu, Katrin Hübner, M. Nazeem Nanjee, Eliot A. Brinton, Norman A. Mazer
2013 J jnl
BMC Bioinform.
Heinz Koeppl, Marc Hafner, James Lu
2012 C conf
ACC
Elias August, James Lu, Heinz Koeppl
2011 C conf
ACC
Elias August, Yongqiang Wang, Francis J. Doyle, James Lu, Heinz Koeppl
2007 conf
BIRD
James Lu, Heinz W. Engl, Rainer Machné, Peter Schuster
2006 conf
AHS
Savio Chau, Van Dang, Joseph Xu, James Lu
2006 J jnl
Algorithms Mol. Biol.
James Lu, Heinz W. Engl, Peter Schuster
2006 J jnl
Bioinform.
Rainer Machné, Andrew Finney, Stefan Müller, James Lu, Stefanie Widder, Christoph Flamm
2004 J jnl
SIAM J. Sci. Comput.
James Lu, David L. Darmofal
2003 J jnl
SIAM J. Sci. Comput.
James Lu, David L. Darmofal
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)