Mahmoud SalahEldin Kasem

18 papers A* 1Journal 15Unranked 2
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
ACM Comput. Surv.
Mahmoud SalahEldin Kasem, Mohamed Mahmoud, Hyun Soo Kang
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Abdelrahman Abdallah, Mohamed Darwish Mounis, Mahmoud Abdalla, Mahmoud SalahEldin Kasem, Mostafa Farouk Senussi, Mohamed Mahmoud, Mohammed Ali, Adam Jatowt, Hyun-Soo Kang
2025 J jnl
IEEE Access
Mostafa Farouk Senussi, Mahmoud Abdalla, Mahmoud SalahEldin Kasem, Mohamed Mahmoud, Bilel Yagoub, Hyun-Soo Kang
2025 conf
ISBI
Abdelrahman Abdallah, Mahmoud SalahEldin Kasem, Ibrahim Abdelhalim, Norah Saleh Alghamdi, Sohail Contractor, Ayman El-Baz
2025 J jnl
IEEE Access
Abdelrahman Abdallah, Mahmoud SalahEldin Kasem, Ibrahim Saad Aly Abdelhalim, Norah Saleh Alghamdi, Ayman El-Baz
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Mohamed Mahmoud, Mahmoud SalahEldin Kasem, Hyun-Soo Kang
2024 A* conf
SIGIR
Abdelrahman Abdallah, Mahmoud SalahEldin Kasem, Mahmoud Abdalla, Mohamed Mahmoud, Mohamed Elkasaby, Yasser Elbendary, Adam Jatowt
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Abdelrahman Abdallah, Mahmoud SalahEldin Kasem, Mahmoud Abdalla, Mohamed Mahmoud, Mohamed Elkasaby, Yasser Elbendary, Adam Jatowt
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Abdelrahman Abdallah, Mahmoud Abdalla, Mahmoud SalahEldin Kasem, Mohamed Mahmoud, Ibrahim Abdelhalim, Mohamed Elkasaby, Yasser Elbendary, Adam Jatowt
2024 J jnl
Neural Comput. Appl.
Mahmoud SalahEldin Kasem, Mohamed Hamada, Islam Taj-Eddin
2024 J jnl
ACM Comput. Surv.
Mahmoud SalahEldin Kasem, Abdelrahman Abdallah, Alexander Berendeyev, Ebrahem Elkady, Mohamed Mahmoud, Mahmoud Abdalla, Mohamed Hamada, Sebastiano Vascon, Daniyar B. Nurseitov, Islam Taj-Eddin
2024 conf
MICCAI (1)
Mahmoud SalahEldin Kasem, Abdelrahman Abdallah, Ibrahim Abdelhalim, Norah Saleh Alghamdi, Sohail Contractor, Ayman El-Baz
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Mahmoud SalahEldin Kasem, Mohamed Mahmoud, Hyun-Soo Kang
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Mahmoud SalahEldin Kasem, Mohamed Hamada, Islam Taj-Eddin
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Mahmoud SalahEldin Kasem, Abdelrahman Abdallah, Alexander Berendeyev, Ebrahem Elkady, Mahmoud Abdalla, Mohamed Mahmoud, Mohamed Hamada, Daniyar B. Nurseitov, Islam Taj-Eddin
2022 J jnl
Signal Process. Image Commun.
Nazgul Toiganbayeva, Mahmoud SalahEldin Kasem, Galymzhan Abdimanap, Kairat Bostanbekov, Abdelrahman Abdallah, Anel Alimova, Daniyar B. Nurseitov
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Nazgul Toiganbayeva, Mahmoud SalahEldin Kasem, Galymzhan Abdimanap, Kairat Bostanbekov, Abdelrahman Abdallah, Anel Alimova, Daniyar B. Nurseitov
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Abdelrahman Abdallah, Mahmoud SalahEldin Kasem, Mohamed Hamada, Shaymaa Sdeek
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)