Madhu Sharma

16 papers A* 1Journal 11Unranked 4
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
Clust. Comput.
Shreya Deoli, Madhu Sharma
2026 J jnl
Inf. Sci.
Madhu Sharma
2025 J jnl
Clust. Comput.
Madhu Sharma, Priyanka Chawla
2024 J jnl
IEEE Access
Abdul Haleem Medattil Ibrahim, Sajan K. Sadanandan, Tareg Ghaoud, Vetrivel Subramaniam Rajkumar, Madhu Sharma
2023 J jnl
Multim. Tools Appl.
Madhu Sharma, Ranjeet Kumar Ranjan, Vishal Bharti
2023 conf
ISED
Harshit Munjal, Madhu Sharma
2023 J jnl
Comput. Commun.
Ghanshyam Prasad Dubey, Shalini Stalin, Omar Saad Alqahtani, Areej Alasiry, Madhu Sharma, Aliya Aleryani, Piyush Kumar Shukla, Monia Turki-Hadj Alouane
2022 J jnl
J. Inf. Secur. Appl.
Madhu Sharma, Ranjeet Kumar Ranjan, Vishal Bharti
2022 J jnl
Briefings Bioinform.
Madhu Sharma, Indra Prakash Jha, Smriti Chawla, Neetesh Pandey, Omkar Chandra, Shreya Mishra, Vibhor Kumar
2021 conf
ICCCNT
Madhu Sharma, Ranjeet Kumar Ranjan, Vishal Bharti
2021 J jnl
Reliab. Eng. Syst. Saf.
Balaji Venkateswaran Venkatasubramanian, Devender Kumar Saini, Madhu Sharma
2020 J jnl
IEEE Access
V. Balaji Venkateswaran, Devender Kumar Saini, Madhu Sharma
2020 J jnl
Multim. Tools Appl.
Madhu Sharma
2020 conf
ICCCNT
Madhu Sharma, Vishal Bharti
2019 conf
ICCCNT
Madhu Sharma, Ashish Sharma
2000 A* conf
ASPLOS
Kourosh Gharachorloo, Madhu Sharma, Simon Steely, Stephen Van Doren
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)