Jamie M. Taylor

21 papers Journal 20Unranked 1
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Shima Baharlouei, Jamie M. Taylor, David Pardo
2026 J jnl
J. Comput. Phys.
Tomás Teijeiro, Pouria Behnoudfar, Jamie M. Taylor, David Pardo, Victor M. Calo
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Pablo Herrera, Jamie M. Taylor, Carlos Uriarte, Ignacio Muga, David Pardo, Kristoffer G. van der Zee
2026 J jnl
Comput. Math. Appl.
Jamie M. Taylor, David Pardo
2025 J jnl
J. Comput. Phys.
Jamie M. Taylor, Manuela Bastidas, David Pardo, Ignacio Muga
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Tomás Teijeiro, Pouria Behnoudfar, Jamie M. Taylor, David Pardo, Victor M. Calo
2025 J jnl
Comput. Math. Appl.
Carlos Uriarte, Manuela Bastidas, David Pardo, Jamie M. Taylor, Sergio Rojas
2025 J jnl
J. Comput. Phys.
Jamie M. Taylor, David Pardo, Judit Muñoz-Matute
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Jamie M. Taylor, David Pardo
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Shima Baharlouei, Jamie M. Taylor, Carlos Uriarte, David Pardo
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Jamie M. Taylor, Manuela Bastidas, Victor M. Calo, David Pardo
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Carlos Uriarte, Manuela Bastidas, David Pardo, Jamie M. Taylor, Sergio Rojas
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Jamie M. Taylor, David Pardo, Judit Muñoz-Matute
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Jamie M. Taylor, Manuela Bastidas, David Pardo, Ignacio Muga
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Tomás Teijeiro, Jamie M. Taylor, Ali Hashemian, David Pardo
2023 conf
ICCS (2)
Carlos Uriarte, Jamie M. Taylor, David Pardo, Oscar A. Rodríguez, Patrick Vega
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Jamie M. Taylor, David Pardo, Ignacio Muga
2021 J jnl
J. Nonlinear Sci.
Jamie M. Taylor, Thomas G. Fai, Epifanio G. Virga, Xiaoyu Zheng, Peter Palffy-Muhoray
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Jon Ander Rivera, Jamie M. Taylor, Angel Javier Omella, David Pardo
2019 J jnl
J. Nonlinear Sci.
Angkana Rüland, Jamie M. Taylor, Christian Zillinger
2018 J jnl
SIAM J. Math. Anal.
Jamie M. Taylor
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)