Mahammad Shareef Mekala

32 papers B 1Journal 25Unranked 6
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
Comput. Mater. Continua
Woongkyu Park, Yeongyu Choi, Mahammad Shareef Mekala, Gyu Sang Choi, Kook-Yeol Yoo, Ho-Youl Jung
2025 J jnl
IEEE J. Biomed. Health Informatics
Achyut Shankar, Rizwan Patan, Mahammad Shareef Mekala, Eyad Elyan, Amir H. Gandomi, Carsten Maple, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues
2025 J jnl
Signal Image Video Process.
Vladimir Yesipov, Mahammad Shareef Mekala, Paul Edge, Eyad Elyan
2025 J jnl
Cogn. Comput.
Rezowan Shuvo, Mahammad Shareef Mekala, Eyad Elyan
2025 J jnl
Comput. Vis. Image Underst.
Rezowan Shuvo, Mahammad Shareef Mekala, Eyad Elyan
2025 conf
IDEAL (1)
John-Bosco Diekuu, Mahammad Shareef Mekala, John P. Isaacs, Eyad Elyan
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Rezowan Shuvo, Mahammad Shareef Mekala, Eyad Elyan
2024 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Comput. Soc. Syst.
Mahammad Shareef Mekala, Gaurav Dhiman, Gautam Srivastava, Zulqar Nain, Haolin Zhang, Wattana Viriyasitavat, G. P. S. Varma
2024 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Netw. Sci. Eng.
Mahammad Shareef Mekala, Gautam Srivastava, Amir H. Gandomi, Ju H. Park, Ho-Youl Jung
2024 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Ind. Informatics
Mahammad Shareef Mekala, Gaurav Dhiman, Ju H. Park, Ho-Youl Jung, Wattana Viriyasitavat
2024 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Consumer Electron.
Gautam Srivastava, Mahammad Shareef Mekala, Muhammad Shadi Hajar, Harsha Kalutarage
2024 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Intell. Transp. Syst.
Mahammad Shareef Mekala, Gaurav Dhiman, Wattana Viriyasitavat, Ju H. Park, Ho-Youl Jung
2023 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol.
Haolin Zhang, Mahammad Shareef Mekala, Dongfang Yang, John P. Isaacs, Zulkar Nain, Ju H. Park, Ho-Youl Jung
2023 conf
CCNC
Mahammad Shareef Mekala, Haolin Zhang, Ju H. Park, Ho-Youl Jung
2023 J jnl
IEEE Internet Things J.
Mahammad Shareef Mekala, Rizwan Patan, Mohammad S. Khan
2023 J jnl
Clust. Comput.
P. Keerthi Chandrika, Mahammad Shareef Mekala, Gautam Srivastava
2023 J jnl
Internet Technol. Lett.
Thanmayatejaswi G, Dileep Chakravarthy Ch, G. P. S. Varma, Mahammad Shareef Mekala
2023 B conf
DSAA
Mahammad Shareef Mekala, Eyad Elyan, Gautam Srivastava
2023 conf
CCNC
Mahammad Shareef Mekala, Haolin Zhang, Ju H. Park, Ho-Youl Jung
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Haolin Zhang, Mahammad Shareef Mekala, Zulkar Nain, Dongfang Yang, Ju H. Park, Ho-Youl Jung
2022 J jnl
Digit. Commun. Networks
Mahammad Shareef Mekala, Gautam Srivastava, Ju H. Park, Ho-Youl Jung
2022 J jnl
Expert Syst. J. Knowl. Eng.
Mahammad Shareef Mekala, Gaurav Dhiman, Rizwan Patan, Suresh Kallam, Kadiyala Ramana, Kusum Yadav, Ali O. Alharbi
2022 J jnl
Neural Comput. Appl.
K. Sathish, Y. V. Narayana, Mahammad Shareef Mekala, Rizwan Patan, Suresh Kallam
2022 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Syst.
Usman Ahmed, Jerry Chun-Wei Lin, Gautam Srivastava, Mahammad Shareef Mekala, Ho-Youl Jung
2022 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Emerg. Top. Comput. Intell.
Mahammad Shareef Mekala, Alireza Jolfaei, Gautam Srivastava, Xi Zheng, Amjad Anvari-Moghaddam, P. Viswanathan
2021 conf
SSCI
Mahammad Shareef Mekala, Rizwan Patan, Amir H. Gandomi, Ju H. Park, Ho-Youl Jung
2021 J jnl
Secur. Commun. Networks
Mahammad Shareef Mekala, Rizwan Patan, SK Hafizul Islam, Debabrata Samanta, Ghulam Ali Mallah, Shehzad Ashraf Chaudhry
2020 J jnl
Wirel. Pers. Commun.
Mahammad Shareef Mekala, P. Viswanathan
2020 conf
SSCI
Chandrasegar Thirumalai, Mahammad Shareef Mekala, Viswanathan Perumal, Rizwan Patan, Amir H. Gandomi
2019 conf
IC3I
Mahammad Shareef Mekala, P. Viswanathan, N. Srinivasu, G. P. S. Varma
2019 J jnl
Comput. Electr. Eng.
Mahammad Shareef Mekala, P. Viswanathan
2019 J jnl
Wirel. Pers. Commun.
Mahammad Shareef Mekala, P. Viswanathan
redb/extractors/js_extractors/js_patterns.py
← Index redb/extractors/js_extractors/js_patterns.py python
"""Canonical, compiled JavaScript regex patterns shared across JS extractors.

All suspicious-API patterns and the few feature-only patterns live here so each
expression is compiled exactly once per Python process and so any pattern that
was previously duplicated across `js_features.py` and `js_suspicious_apis.py`
now resolves to a single shared compiled object.

JavaScript is case-sensitive at runtime, but every suspicious-API pattern matches
either a literal-case identifier (`\\beval\\s*\\(`, `String\\.fromCharCode`, etc.)
or a string-quoted token (`"powershell"`). Compiling them with `re.IGNORECASE`
matches the historical behaviour of `JSSuspiciousAPIsExtractor` and is safe for
the patterns that historically came from `JSFeaturesExtractor` — those literals
are spelled in real-world JS exactly as written.

`scan_source()` is the entry point used by extractors: it walks the source once
per pattern using the pre-compiled regexes and returns a flat
`{name: {"count": N, "lines": [unique_line_numbers_sorted]}}` dict. Both
`JSFeaturesExtractor` and `JSSuspiciousAPIsExtractor` consume the same dict so
the per-pattern × per-line loops they used to run independently collapse to a
single shared scan.
"""

import bisect
import re
from typing import Dict, Iterable, List, Mapping

_FLAGS = re.IGNORECASE

# Canonical compiled patterns, keyed by their human-readable name. The name is
# also the value emitted into `redb_js_suspicious_apis.api_name`.
PATTERNS = {
    # ---- code execution ----
    "eval": re.compile(r"\beval\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "Function constructor": re.compile(r"\bnew\s+Function\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "execScript": re.compile(r"\bexecScript\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "document.write": re.compile(r"\bdocument\.write(?:ln)?\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "innerHTML assignment": re.compile(r"\.innerHTML\s*=", _FLAGS),
    "outerHTML assignment": re.compile(r"\.outerHTML\s*=", _FLAGS),
    "insertAdjacentHTML": re.compile(r"\.insertAdjacentHTML\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    # ---- network ----
    "XMLHttpRequest": re.compile(r"\bnew\s+XMLHttpRequest\b", _FLAGS),
    "fetch": re.compile(r"\bfetch\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "WebSocket": re.compile(r"\bnew\s+WebSocket\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "navigator.sendBeacon": re.compile(r"\bnavigator\.sendBeacon\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "ActiveXObject XMLHTTP": re.compile(
        r"ActiveXObject\s*\(\s*[\"\'](?:MSXML2\.XMLHTTP|Microsoft\.XMLHTTP)", _FLAGS
    ),
    "require network module": re.compile(
        r"require\s*\(\s*[\"\'](?:http|https|net|dgram)[\"\']", _FLAGS
    ),
    "axios": re.compile(r"\baxios\b", _FLAGS),
    # ---- filesystem ----
    "require fs": re.compile(r"require\s*\(\s*[\"\']fs[\"\']", _FLAGS),
    "require path": re.compile(r"require\s*\(\s*[\"\']path[\"\']", _FLAGS),
    "FileSystemObject": re.compile(r"Scripting\.FileSystemObject", _FLAGS),
    "ADODB.Stream": re.compile(r"ADODB\.Stream", _FLAGS),
    "Shell.Application": re.compile(r"Shell\.Application", _FLAGS),
    "WScript.CreateObject": re.compile(r"WScript\.CreateObject", _FLAGS),
    # ---- process ----
    "require child_process": re.compile(r"require\s*\(\s*[\"\']child_process[\"\']", _FLAGS),
    "child_process exec": re.compile(r"child_process\.(?:exec|spawn|execFile|fork)\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "WScript.Shell": re.compile(r"WScript\.Shell", _FLAGS),
    "WScript.Shell.Run": re.compile(r"\.Run\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "WScript.Shell.Exec": re.compile(r"\.Exec\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "ShellExecute": re.compile(r"\bShellExecute\b", _FLAGS),
    "PowerShell reference": re.compile(r"[\"\']powershell[\"\']", _FLAGS),
    "cmd.exe reference": re.compile(r"[\"\']cmd\.exe[\"\']", _FLAGS),
    "require os": re.compile(r"require\s*\(\s*[\"\']os[\"\']", _FLAGS),
    # ---- registry ----
    "RegRead": re.compile(r"\.RegRead\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "RegWrite": re.compile(r"\.RegWrite\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "RegDelete": re.compile(r"\.RegDelete\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "StdRegProv": re.compile(r"StdRegProv", _FLAGS),
    # ---- crypto / encoding ----
    "atob": re.compile(r"\batob\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "btoa": re.compile(r"\bbtoa\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "String.fromCharCode": re.compile(r"String\.fromCharCode\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "unescape": re.compile(r"\bunescape\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "decodeURIComponent": re.compile(r"\bdecodeURIComponent\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "Buffer.from": re.compile(r"Buffer\.from\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "crypto module": re.compile(r"crypto\.create(?:Cipher|Decipher|Hash|Hmac)", _FLAGS),
    # ---- DOM manipulation ----
    "document.forms": re.compile(r"document\.forms", _FLAGS),
    "document.cookie": re.compile(r"document\.cookie", _FLAGS),
    "querySelector sensitive input": re.compile(
        r"document\.querySelector\s*\([^)]*(?:password|credit|card|cvv|ssn)", _FLAGS
    ),
    "submit event listener": re.compile(r"addEventListener\s*\(\s*[\"\']submit", _FLAGS),
    "createElement script/iframe": re.compile(
        r"\.createElement\s*\(\s*[\"\'](?:script|iframe)", _FLAGS
    ),
    "dynamic script src": re.compile(r"\.src\s*=\s*[\"\'](?:https?://|//)", _FLAGS),
}

# Pattern name -> category (one of code_execution / network / filesystem /
# process / registry / crypto_encoding / dom_manipulation).
CATEGORIES = {
    "eval": "code_execution",
    "Function constructor": "code_execution",
    "execScript": "code_execution",
    "document.write": "code_execution",
    "innerHTML assignment": "code_execution",
    "outerHTML assignment": "code_execution",
    "insertAdjacentHTML": "code_execution",
    "XMLHttpRequest": "network",
    "fetch": "network",
    "WebSocket": "network",
    "navigator.sendBeacon": "network",
    "ActiveXObject XMLHTTP": "network",
    "require network module": "network",
    "axios": "network",
    "require fs": "filesystem",
    "require path": "filesystem",
    "FileSystemObject": "filesystem",
    "ADODB.Stream": "filesystem",
    "Shell.Application": "filesystem",
    "WScript.CreateObject": "filesystem",
    "require child_process": "process",
    "child_process exec": "process",
    "WScript.Shell": "process",
    "WScript.Shell.Run": "process",
    "WScript.Shell.Exec": "process",
    "ShellExecute": "process",
    "PowerShell reference": "process",
    "cmd.exe reference": "process",
    "require os": "process",
    "RegRead": "registry",
    "RegWrite": "registry",
    "RegDelete": "registry",
    "StdRegProv": "registry",
    "atob": "crypto_encoding",
    "btoa": "crypto_encoding",
    "String.fromCharCode": "crypto_encoding",
    "unescape": "crypto_encoding",
    "decodeURIComponent": "crypto_encoding",
    "Buffer.from": "crypto_encoding",
    "crypto module": "crypto_encoding",
    "document.forms": "dom_manipulation",
    "document.cookie": "dom_manipulation",
    "querySelector sensitive input": "dom_manipulation",
    "submit event listener": "dom_manipulation",
    "createElement script/iframe": "dom_manipulation",
    "dynamic script src": "dom_manipulation",
}

# Patterns consumed only by JSFeaturesExtractor (no category, never surfaced as
# a suspicious-API row). Kept here so every JS regex is compiled in one place.
FEATURE_PATTERNS = {
    "hex_escape": re.compile(r"\\x[0-9a-fA-F]{2}"),
    "unicode_escape": re.compile(r"\\u[0-9a-fA-F]{4}"),
    "base64_string": re.compile(r"[A-Za-z0-9+/]{40,}={0,2}"),
    # decodeURI matches BOTH decodeURI and decodeURIComponent. The latter is also
    # a suspicious-API pattern in PATTERNS; this broader form is what the
    # `decodeuri_count` feature column has historically counted.
    "decodeURI": re.compile(r"\b(?:decodeURI|decodeURIComponent)\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "settimeout_setinterval": re.compile(r"\b(?:setTimeout|setInterval)\s*\(", _FLAGS),
    "function_decl": re.compile(r"\bfunction\s+\w+\s*\(|\bfunction\s*\("),
    "var_decl": re.compile(r"\b(?:var|let|const)\s+"),
    "string_concat": re.compile(r"[\"\'][\s]*\+[\s]*[\"\']"),
    "comment": re.compile(r"//.*?$|/\*[\s\S]*?\*/", re.MULTILINE),
    "long_string": re.compile(r"[\"\']([^\"\']{256,})[\"\']"),
    "array_function_call": re.compile(r"\[(?:0x[0-9a-f]+|[\d]+)\]\s*\(", _FLAGS),
}

# Patterns consumed only by JSStringsExtractor for encoded-string discovery.
# Scoped to *hidden* strings only — patterns whose decoded form is not visible
# to a substring search over the raw text. Plain long literals are not
# extracted here because they're already preserved in code_text_content and
# scraped by the IOC pipeline over text_raw / text_normalized.
#
# Distinct from FEATURE_PATTERNS even where the names rhyme:
#   FEATURE_PATTERNS["hex_escape"] / ["unicode_escape"]   -> single escape
#   STRING_PATTERNS["hex_escape_seq"] / ["unicode_escape_seq"] -> 4+ / 3+ in a row
#   FEATURE_PATTERNS["base64_string"]                     -> bare base64 token
#   STRING_PATTERNS["base64_quoted"]                      -> base64 inside JS quotes
# These do not share match objects with the suspicious-API or feature scans, so
# they are not folded into JSContext.scan; the strings extractor walks them
# itself (one finditer per pattern, with shared line-offset bisect in #4b).
STRING_PATTERNS = {
    "hex_escape_seq": re.compile(r"(?:\\x[0-9a-fA-F]{2}){4,}"),
    "unicode_escape_seq": re.compile(r"(?:\\u[0-9a-fA-F]{4}){3,}"),
    "charcode_call": re.compile(r"String\.fromCharCode\s*\(\s*([\d,\s]+)\s*\)"),
    "base64_quoted": re.compile(r"[\"\']([A-Za-z0-9+/]{40,}={0,2})[\"\']"),
    "concat_chain": re.compile(r"(?:[\"\'][^\"\']+[\"\']\s*\+\s*){3,}[\"\'][^\"\']+[\"\']"),
}


def line_offsets(source: str) -> List[int]:
    """Sorted list of byte offsets for every newline in `source`, plus a final
    sentinel of len(source). Used to translate match offsets into 1-indexed
    line numbers via bisect.
    """
    offsets = [-1]  # so that bisect_right of offset 0 returns line 1
    push = offsets.append
    idx = source.find("\n")
    while idx != -1:
        push(idx)
        idx = source.find("\n", idx + 1)
    return offsets


def _scan_one(
    pattern: "re.Pattern[str]", source: str, offsets: List[int]
) -> Dict[str, object]:
    """Run a single compiled pattern over `source` and return count + unique lines."""
    count = 0
    seen_lines: "set[int]" = set()
    for m in pattern.finditer(source):
        count += 1
        seen_lines.add(bisect.bisect_right(offsets, m.start()))
    if not count:
        return None  # type: ignore[return-value]
    return {"count": count, "lines": sorted(seen_lines)}


def scan_source(
    source: str,
    patterns: Iterable[Mapping[str, "re.Pattern[str]"]] = (PATTERNS, FEATURE_PATTERNS),
) -> Dict[str, Dict[str, object]]:
    """Scan `source` against every compiled pattern in `patterns`.

    Returns a dict keyed by pattern name. Each entry has:
        "count": total number of matches in the source
        "lines": sorted list of unique 1-indexed line numbers where the pattern
                 matched (deduplicated — multiple matches on the same line
                 collapse to one entry, preserving the historical
                 line-set semantics of JSSuspiciousAPIsExtractor)
    Patterns with zero matches are absent from the dict; callers should default
    to {"count": 0, "lines": []}.
    """
    if not source:
        return {}
    offsets = line_offsets(source)
    results: Dict[str, Dict[str, object]] = {}
    for table in patterns:
        for name, pat in table.items():
            entry = _scan_one(pat, source, offsets)
            if entry is not None:
                results[name] = entry
    return results