Karthik Desingh

42 papers A* 6A 5B 1Misc 2Journal 24Unranked 3
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 A conf
IROS
Ryan Diaz, Adam Imdieke, Vivek Veeriah, Karthik Desingh
2025 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Robotics
Alireza Rezazadeh, Houjian Yu, Karthik Desingh, Changhyun Choi
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Tzu-Hsien Lee, Fidan Mahmudova, Karthik Desingh
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Raj Surya Rajendran Kathirvel, Zachary Chavis, Stephen J. Guy, Karthik Desingh
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Adam Imdieke, Karthik Desingh
2025 A* conf
ICRA
Xun Tu, Karthik Desingh
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Ryan Diaz, Adam Imdieke, Vivek Veeriah, Karthik Desingh
2024 A* conf
ICRA
Chahyon Ku, Carl Winge, Ryan Diaz, Wentao Yuan, Karthik Desingh
2024 A* conf
ICRA
Alireza Rezazadeh, Athreyi Badithela, Karthik Desingh, Changhyun Choi
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Xun Tu, Karthik Desingh
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Carl Winge, Adam Imdieke, Bahaa Aldeeb, Dongyeop Kang, Karthik Desingh
2024 J jnl
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.
Carl Winge, Adam Imdieke, Bahaa Aldeeb, Dongyeop Kang, Karthik Desingh
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Anthony Opipari, Jana Pavlasek, Chao Chen, Shoutian Wang, Karthik Desingh, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Chahyon Ku, Carl Winge, Ryan Diaz, Wentao Yuan, Karthik Desingh
2023 A* conf
AAAI
Karthik Desingh
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Alireza Rezazadeh, Athreyi Badithela, Karthik Desingh, Changhyun Choi
2022 conf
ECCV (28)
Aaron Walsman, Muru Zhang, Klemen Kotar, Karthik Desingh, Ali Farhadi, Dieter Fox
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Aaron Walsman, Muru Zhang, Klemen Kotar, Karthik Desingh, Ali Farhadi, Dieter Fox
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Anthony Opipari, Chao Chen, Shoutian Wang, Jana Pavlasek, Karthik Desingh, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins
2021 Misc conf
CoRL
Junha Roh, Karthik Desingh, Ali Farhadi, Dieter Fox
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Junha Roh, Karthik Desingh, Ali Farhadi, Dieter Fox
2021 Misc conf
CoRL
Wentao Yuan, Chris Paxton, Karthik Desingh, Dieter Fox
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Wentao Yuan, Chris Paxton, Karthik Desingh, Dieter Fox
2020
Karthik Desingh
2020 A conf
IROS
Jana Pavlasek, Stanley R. Lewis, Karthik Desingh, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Jana Pavlasek, Stanley R. Lewis, Karthik Desingh, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins
2020 J jnl
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.
Thomas Cohn, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Karthik Desingh, Zhen Zeng
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Sina Masnadi, Joseph J. LaViola Jr., Jana Pavlasek, Xiaofan Zhu, Karthik Desingh, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins
2019 J jnl
Sci. Robotics
Karthik Desingh, Shiyang Lu, Anthony Opipari, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins
2019 A* conf
ICRA
Karthik Desingh, Shiyang Lu, Anthony Opipari, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins
2018 B conf
HCOMP
Sai R. Gouravajhala, Jinyeong Yim, Karthik Desingh, Yanda Huang, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Walter S. Lasecki
2018 J jnl
CoRR
Karthik Desingh, Shiyang Lu, Anthony Opipari, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins
2018 A* conf
ICRA
Mehran Maghoumi, Joseph J. LaViola Jr., Karthik Desingh, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins
2018 J jnl
CoRR
Karthik Desingh, Anthony Opipari, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins
2018 A conf
IROS
Zhen Zeng, Yunwen Zhou, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Karthik Desingh
2018 J jnl
CoRR
Zhen Zeng, Yunwen Zhou, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Karthik Desingh
2017 J jnl
Int. J. Robotics Res.
Zhiqiang Sui, Lingzhu Xiang, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Karthik Desingh
2017 J jnl
Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol.
Nediyana Daskalova, Karthik Desingh, Alexandra Papoutsaki, Diane Schulze, Han Sha, Jeff Huang
2016 conf
Humanoids
Karthik Desingh, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Lionel Revéret, Zhiqiang Sui
2015 A conf
IROS
Zhiqiang Sui, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Karthik Desingh
2013 A conf
BMVC
Karthik Desingh, K. Madhava Krishna, Deepu Rajan, C. V. Jawahar
2012 conf
ICVGIP
Karthik Desingh, Akhil Nagariya, K. Madhava Krishna
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,
        )