Kaihui Gao

16 papers A* 5B 2C 1Misc 2Journal 4Unranked 2
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Fei Long, Kaihui Gao, Li Chen, Dan Li, Yiwei Zhang, Fei Gui, Yitao Xing, Wenjia Wei, Bingyang Liu
2025 Misc conf
NSDI
Fei Gui, Kaihui Gao, Li Chen, Dan Li, Vincent Liu, Ran Zhang, Hongbing Yang, Dian Xiong
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Zhiyuan Wu, Shuai Wang, Li Chen, Kaihui Gao, Dan Li, Yanyu Ren, Qiming Zhang, Yong Wang
2025 A* conf
SIGCOMM
Zihan Yan, Dan Li, Li Chen, Dian Xiong, Kaihui Gao, Yiwei Zhang, Rui Yan, Menglei Zhang, Bochun Zhang, Zhuo Jiang, Jianxi Ye, Haibin Lin
2024 A* conf
SIGCOMM
Fei Gui, Songtao Wang, Dan Li, Li Chen, Kaihui Gao, Congcong Min, Yi Wang
2023 J jnl
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw.
Kaihui Gao, Chen Sun, Shuai Wang, Dan Li, Yu Zhou, Hongqiang Harry Liu, Lingjun Zhu, Ming Zhang, Xiang Deng, Cheng Zhou, Lu Lu
2023 A* conf
SIGCOMM
Kaihui Gao, Li Chen, Dan Li, Vincent Liu, Xizheng Wang, Ran Zhang, Lu Lu
2023 A* conf
SIGCOMM
Kaihui Gao, Li Chen, Dan Li, Vincent Liu, Xizheng Wang, Ran Zhang, Lu Lu
2023 J jnl
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw.
Kaihui Gao, Shuai Wang, Kun Qian, Dan Li, Rui Miao, Bo Li, Yu Zhou, Ennan Zhai, Chen Sun, Jiaqi Gao, Dai Zhang, Binzhang Fu, Frank Kelly, Dennis Cai, Hongqiang Harry Liu, Yan Li, Hongwei Yang, Tao Sun
2022 conf
APNet
Kaihui Gao, Dan Li, Shuai Wang
2022 Misc conf
NSDI
Kaihui Gao, Chen Sun, Shuai Wang, Dan Li, Yu Zhou, Hongqiang Harry Liu, Lingjun Zhu, Ming Zhang
2022 A* conf
SIGCOMM
Shuai Wang, Kaihui Gao, Kun Qian, Dan Li, Rui Miao, Bo Li, Yu Zhou, Ennan Zhai, Chen Sun, Jiaqi Gao, Dai Zhang, Binzhang Fu, Frank Kelly, Dennis Cai, Hongqiang Harry Liu, Ming Zhang
2021 B conf
GLOBECOM
Yue Gu, Dan Li, Kaihui Gao, Yang Cheng
2020 B conf
IWQoS
Kaihui Gao, Dan Li, Li Chen, Jinkun Geng, Fei Gui, Yang Cheng, Yue Gu
2020 conf
INFOCOM Workshops
Kaihui Gao, Dan Li, Li Chen, Jinkun Geng, Fei Gui, Yang Cheng, Yue Gu
2019 C conf
NPC
Runhua Zhang, Yang Cheng, Jinkun Geng, Shuai Wang, Kaihui Gao, Guowei Shen
redb/extractors/js_extractors/js_xray.py
← Index redb/extractors/js_extractors/js_xray.py python
"""Subprocess wrapper for the bundled js-x-ray Node bridge.

Mirrors `js_deobfuscator.py`: shell out to a Node script with a per-sample
timeout, kill the process group on hang, demote `FileNotFoundError` to debug
(missing tool is routine — the host either has Node + the bundled package
installed or it doesn't), and return a structured result on success.

The bridge lives at `redb/extractors/js_extractors/scripts/js-xray-runner.js`.
Operators install the JS dependency once with `npm install` in that directory
(or override the path with `JS_XRAY_RUNNER_PATH`).

Configuration (env vars):
    JS_XRAY_RUNNER_PATH   Path to the Node bridge script (default: bundled).
    JS_XRAY_TIMEOUT       Seconds before the subprocess is killed. Default: 30.

`run(source, log)` returns `XRayResult(obfuscator, warnings)` on a successful
analysis, or `XRayResult(None, [])` for any non-success path (binary missing,
timeout, parse failure, etc.). The two unsuccessful states are
indistinguishable to the caller on purpose — they all collapse to "no
js-x-ray verdict, fall back to heuristic".
"""

from __future__ import annotations

import json
import os
import signal
import subprocess
import tempfile
from dataclasses import dataclass, field
from typing import List, Optional

# Bundled bridge: redb/extractors/js_extractors/scripts/js-xray-runner.js
_DEFAULT_RUNNER = os.path.join(
    os.path.dirname(__file__), "scripts", "js-xray-runner.js"
)
_DEFAULT_NODE = "node"
_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_SECS = 30


@dataclass
class XRayResult:
    """Parsed js-x-ray output. `obfuscator` is the recognised family name
    (e.g. "jsfuck", "obfuscator.io") or None when js-x-ray did not flag the
    code. `warnings` carries every {kind, value} pair the analyser produced;
    the heuristic uses it as a corroborating signal. `avg_identifier_length`
    is js-x-ray's own AST-derived figure — used as a fallback for the
    heuristic's `avg_identifier_length<2` strong signal when pyjsparser
    can't parse the source (anything ES2015+ trips it)."""

    obfuscator: Optional[str] = None
    warnings: List[dict] = field(default_factory=list)
    avg_identifier_length: Optional[float] = None

    @property
    def flagged(self) -> bool:
        return self.obfuscator is not None


def _empty() -> XRayResult:
    return XRayResult(obfuscator=None, warnings=[])


def run(source: str, log) -> XRayResult:
    if not source:
        return _empty()

    runner = os.getenv("JS_XRAY_RUNNER_PATH", _DEFAULT_RUNNER)
    node_bin = os.getenv("JS_XRAY_NODE_BIN", _DEFAULT_NODE)
    timeout = int(os.getenv("JS_XRAY_TIMEOUT", str(_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_SECS)))

    if not os.path.exists(runner):
        log.debug(f"js-x-ray runner not found at {runner}")
        return _empty()

    # Skip the subprocess entirely when the JS dependency isn't installed.
    # Without this, every call to a host that has `node` but never ran
    # `npm install` next to the runner would still fork node, get a require
    # error, and exit nonzero — wasted ~50–200ms per JS sample (and per test).
    runner_dir = os.path.dirname(runner)
    if not os.path.isdir(os.path.join(runner_dir, "node_modules", "@nodesecure", "js-x-ray")):
        log.debug(f"@nodesecure/js-x-ray not installed in {runner_dir}")
        return _empty()

    tmp_path = None
    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(
                [node_bin, runner, tmp_path],
                stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
                preexec_fn=os.setsid,
            )
            try:
                stdout, stderr = process.communicate(timeout=timeout)
            except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
                # Kill the whole process group so any node helpers die 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"js-x-ray timed out after {timeout}s")
                return _empty()

            if process.returncode != 0:
                err = stderr.decode("utf-8", errors="replace").strip()
                log.debug(f"js-x-ray exited {process.returncode}: {err}")
                return _empty()

            text = stdout.decode("utf-8", errors="replace").strip()
            if not text:
                return _empty()

            try:
                payload = json.loads(text)
            except json.JSONDecodeError as e:
                log.warning(f"js-x-ray emitted non-JSON output: {e}")
                return _empty()

            obfuscator = payload.get("obfuscator")
            warnings = payload.get("warnings") or []
            if not isinstance(warnings, list):
                warnings = []

            ids_avg = payload.get("idsLengthAvg")
            if not isinstance(ids_avg, (int, float)):
                ids_avg = None

            return XRayResult(
                obfuscator=obfuscator,
                warnings=warnings,
                avg_identifier_length=ids_avg,
            )
        finally:
            if tmp_path:
                try:
                    os.unlink(tmp_path)
                except Exception:
                    pass
    except FileNotFoundError:
        log.debug(f"node binary not found at {node_bin}")
        return _empty()
    except Exception as e:
        log.error(f"js-x-ray subprocess error: {e}")
        return _empty()