Man Xiao

31 papers A* 1B 1C 4Misc 2Journal 17Unranked 6
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 A* conf
ACM Multimedia
Man Xiao, Jianbin Ye, Bo Liu, Zijian Gao, Kele Xu, Xiaodong Wang
2025 J jnl
Discret. Appl. Math.
Weidong Li, Yaru Yang, Man Xiao, Xin Chen, Malgorzata Sterna, Jacek Blazewicz
2025 B conf
ICMR
Man Xiao, Jianbin Ye, Bo Liu, Zijian Gao, Kele Xu, Xiaodong Wang
2025 conf
IJTCS-FAW
Zhonghao Liu, Man Xiao, Xiaofei Liu, Weidong Li
2024 conf
AAIM (2)
Man Xiao, Weidong Li
2024 J jnl
Int. J. Appl. Math. Comput. Sci.
Man Xiao, Xiaoqiao Liu, Weidong Li, Xin Chen, Malgorzata Sterna, Jacek Blazewicz
2024 J jnl
Comput.
Yaru Yang, Man Xiao, Weidong Li
2023 J jnl
J. Comb. Optim.
Xiaofei Liu, Man Xiao, Weidong Li, Yaoyu Zhu, Lei Ma
2023 J jnl
IEEE Geosci. Remote. Sens. Lett.
Zhi He, Dan He, Man Xiao, Anjun Lou, Guanglin Lai
2023 J jnl
Oper. Res. Forum
Man Xiao, Weidong Li, Xiaofei Liu
2023 J jnl
J. Comb. Optim.
Man Xiao, Shu Zhao, Weidong Li, Jinhua Yang
2023 J jnl
J. Comb. Optim.
Man Xiao, Xiaoqiao Liu, Weidong Li
2022 conf
NCTCS
Man Xiao, Weidong Li
2022 J jnl
IEEE Internet Things J.
Man Xiao, Yunhe Cui, Qing Qian, Guowei Shen
2022 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens.
Zhi He, Jun Li, Lin Liu, Dan He, Man Xiao
2022 J jnl
Comput.
Man Xiao, Yaru Yang, Weidong Li
2022 C conf
AAIM
Man Xiao, Xihua Bai, Weidong Li
2022 Misc conf
FAW
Man Xiao, Weidong Li
2022 Misc conf
COCOON
Man Xiao, Weidong Li
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Man Xiao, Xiaoqiao Liu, Weidong Li, Xin Chen, Malgorzata Sterna, Jacek Blazewicz
2022 J jnl
IEEE Geosci. Remote. Sens. Lett.
Man Xiao, Zhi He, Xinyuan Li, Anjun Lou
2021 J jnl
IEEE Internet Things J.
Yuanni Liu, Man Xiao, Shanzhi Chen, Fan Bai, Jianli Pan, Di Zhang
2021 C conf
COCOA
Man Xiao, Shu Zhao, Weidong Li, Jinhua Yang
2021 J jnl
Optim. Lett.
Li Guan, Weidong Li, Man Xiao
2021 C conf
AAIM
Man Xiao, Xiaoqiao Liu, Weidong Li
2020 conf
VTC Spring
Yuanni Liu, Man Xiao, Yanyan Zhou, Di Zhang, Jianhui Zhang, Haris Gacanin, Jianli Pan
2020 C conf
IGARSS
Man Xiao, Zhi He, Jiemin Wu
2020 conf
NCTCS
Man Xiao, Lu Ding, Shu Zhao, Weidong Li
2019 J jnl
Environ. Model. Softw.
Marieke A. Frassl, Jonathan M. Abell, Daniel A. Botelho, Kathy Cinque, Badin R. Gibbes, Klaus D. Jöhnk, Kohji Muraoka, Barbara J. Robson, Malcolm Wolski, Man Xiao, David P. Hamilton
2019 conf
NCTCS
Man Xiao, Gangxiong Wu, Weidong Li
2007 J jnl
Empir. Softw. Eng.
Man Xiao, Mohamed El-Attar, Marek Z. Reformat, James Miller
redb/extractors/js_extractors/js_strings.py
← Index redb/extractors/js_extractors/js_strings.py python
import base64
import bisect
import inspect
import re
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from typing import Any

from redb.extractors.enum import Tag
from redb.extractors.js_extractor import JSExtractor
from redb.extractors.js_extractors.js_patterns import STRING_PATTERNS, line_offsets

# Local aliases for the compiled patterns this extractor uses. Defined and
# compiled exactly once in js_patterns.STRING_PATTERNS.
_HEX_STRING_RE = STRING_PATTERNS["hex_escape_seq"]
_UNICODE_STRING_RE = STRING_PATTERNS["unicode_escape_seq"]
_CHARCODE_RE = STRING_PATTERNS["charcode_call"]
_BASE64_STRING_RE = STRING_PATTERNS["base64_quoted"]
_CONCAT_STRING_RE = STRING_PATTERNS["concat_chain"]

# Tokeniser used inside _reconstruct_concat to pull each quoted part out of a
# matched concat chain. Compiled once at module load (was recompiled on every
# concat match before).
_CONCAT_TOKEN_RE = re.compile(r'["\']([^"\']*)["\']')


class JSStringsExtractor(JSExtractor):

    def __init__(
        self, filepath, log, exporters=None, index_prefix=None,
        known_benign=False, known_malicious=False, source=None, context=None,
    ):
        super().__init__(
            filepath, log, exporters, index_prefix,
            known_benign, known_malicious, source, context=context,
        )
        self.string_findings = None
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

    def tag(self):
        return Tag.JS_STRINGS.value

    def _decode_hex_string(self, hex_str):
        """Decode \\x41\\x42 style hex strings."""
        try:
            # Remove \\x prefix and decode
            clean = hex_str.replace('\\x', '')
            return bytes.fromhex(clean).decode('utf-8', errors='replace')
        except Exception:
            return None

    def _decode_unicode_string(self, uni_str):
        """Decode \\u0041\\u0042 style unicode strings."""
        try:
            return uni_str.encode('utf-8').decode('unicode_escape')
        except Exception:
            return None

    def _decode_charcode(self, charcode_str):
        """Decode String.fromCharCode(72, 101, 108, ...) sequences."""
        try:
            codes = [int(c.strip()) for c in charcode_str.split(',') if c.strip().isdigit()]
            return ''.join(chr(c) for c in codes if 0 <= c <= 0x10FFFF)
        except Exception:
            return None

    def _decode_base64(self, b64_str):
        """Attempt to decode base64 string."""
        try:
            decoded = base64.b64decode(b64_str)
            # Check if result is printable text
            text = decoded.decode('utf-8', errors='strict')
            # Only return if it looks like text (>80% printable)
            printable = sum(1 for c in text if c.isprintable() or c in '\n\r\t')
            if printable / len(text) > 0.8:
                return text
        except Exception:
            pass
        return None

    def _reconstruct_concat(self, concat_match):
        """Reconstruct concatenated string parts."""
        try:
            parts = _CONCAT_TOKEN_RE.findall(concat_match)
            return ''.join(parts)
        except Exception:
            return None

    def _find_line_number(self, match_start):
        """1-indexed line number for `match_start`, looked up in O(log L) via
        bisect over `self._line_offsets` (built once per extract() call).

        Replaces the historical `self.js_source[:match_start].count('\\n') + 1`
        which was O(N) per call and quadratic across all matches in a sample.
        """
        return bisect.bisect_right(self._line_offsets, match_start)

    def _scan_text(self, text):
        """Run every encoded-string pattern over `text` and return a list of
        finding dicts. Stateless apart from the per-call `_line_offsets` cache,
        which `_find_line_number` reads — callers must reset it before invoking
        this so line numbers reference the text being scanned, not the previous
        one.
        """
        findings = []

        # Hex-encoded strings
        for m in _HEX_STRING_RE.finditer(text):
            raw = m.group()
            decoded = self._decode_hex_string(raw)
            if decoded and len(decoded) >= 4:
                findings.append({
                    'string': decoded[:4000],
                    'string_raw': raw[:4000],
                    'string_encoding': 'hex',
                    'string_offset': self._find_line_number(m.start()),
                    'string_length': len(decoded),
                    'string_raw_length': len(raw),
                    'string_entropy': self._calculate_text_entropy(decoded),
                })

        # Unicode-encoded strings
        for m in _UNICODE_STRING_RE.finditer(text):
            raw = m.group()
            decoded = self._decode_unicode_string(raw)
            if decoded and len(decoded) >= 3:
                findings.append({
                    'string': decoded[:4000],
                    'string_raw': raw[:4000],
                    'string_encoding': 'unicode',
                    'string_offset': self._find_line_number(m.start()),
                    'string_length': len(decoded),
                    'string_raw_length': len(raw),
                    'string_entropy': self._calculate_text_entropy(decoded),
                })

        # String.fromCharCode sequences
        for m in _CHARCODE_RE.finditer(text):
            raw = m.group()
            decoded = self._decode_charcode(m.group(1))
            if decoded and len(decoded) >= 4:
                findings.append({
                    'string': decoded[:4000],
                    'string_raw': raw[:4000],
                    'string_encoding': 'charcode',
                    'string_offset': self._find_line_number(m.start()),
                    'string_length': len(decoded),
                    'string_raw_length': len(raw),
                    'string_entropy': self._calculate_text_entropy(decoded),
                })

        # Base64-encoded strings
        for m in _BASE64_STRING_RE.finditer(text):
            raw = m.group(0)
            b64_val = m.group(1)
            decoded = self._decode_base64(b64_val)
            if decoded and len(decoded) >= 10:
                findings.append({
                    'string': decoded[:4000],
                    'string_raw': raw[:4000],
                    'string_encoding': 'base64',
                    'string_offset': self._find_line_number(m.start()),
                    'string_length': len(decoded),
                    'string_raw_length': len(raw),
                    'string_entropy': self._calculate_text_entropy(decoded),
                })

        # Concatenated strings (reassembled)
        for m in _CONCAT_STRING_RE.finditer(text):
            raw = m.group()
            reconstructed = self._reconstruct_concat(raw)
            if reconstructed and len(reconstructed) >= 20:
                findings.append({
                    'string': reconstructed[:4000],
                    'string_raw': raw[:4000],
                    'string_encoding': 'concat',
                    'string_offset': self._find_line_number(m.start()),
                    'string_length': len(reconstructed),
                    'string_raw_length': len(raw),
                    'string_entropy': self._calculate_text_entropy(reconstructed),
                })

        return findings

    def extract(self):
        src = self.js_source
        if not src:
            return None

        # Pass 1: raw source. _line_offsets is keyed off whichever text is
        # currently being scanned so _find_line_number resolves to that text.
        self._line_offsets = line_offsets(src)
        findings = self._scan_text(src)

        # Pass 2: deobfuscated text, when the deobfuscator produced something
        # meaningfully different. Same patterns, but a different surface — for
        # samples where the encoded payload is hidden behind an outer wrapper
        # (e.g. array.join() + eval in Vjw0rm/WSH-RAT) only this pass yields
        # any rows at all.
        deobf_text, _ = self._context.deobfuscated
        if deobf_text and deobf_text != src:
            self._line_offsets = line_offsets(deobf_text)
            findings.extend(self._scan_text(deobf_text))

        if not findings:
            return None

        # Deduplicate by decoded string value (raw pass wins on collision: it
        # comes first in `findings`). A string that surfaces only in the
        # deobfuscated text still gets persisted, which is the whole point of
        # the second pass.
        seen_values = set()
        deduped = []
        for f in findings:
            val_key = f['string'][:100]
            if val_key not in seen_values:
                seen_values.add(val_key)
                deduped.append(f)

        self.string_findings = deduped[:500]  # Limit per file
        # Publish to the shared context so post-loop consumers (notably the IOC
        # plumbing in workers.py) can scrape the decoded strings without
        # holding a reference to this extractor instance.
        self._context.decoded_strings = self.string_findings
        return self.string_findings

    def prepare_export_data(self, exporter_type: str) -> Any:
        if exporter_type == "ClickHouseExporter":
            if not self.string_findings:
                return None

            data = []
            for f in self.string_findings:
                data.append([
                    self.sha256,
                    f['string'],
                    f['string_raw'],
                    f['string_encoding'],
                    f['string_offset'],
                    f['string_length'],
                    f['string_raw_length'],
                    f['string_entropy'],
                ])

            column_names = [
                "sha256",
                "string",
                "string_raw",
                "string_encoding",
                "string_offset",
                "string_length",
                "string_raw_length",
                "string_entropy",
            ]

            column_type_names = [
                "FixedString(64)",
                "String",
                "String",
                "LowCardinality(String)",
                "UInt64",
                "UInt32",
                "UInt32",
                "Float32",
            ]

            return (data, column_names, column_type_names)

    def get_clickhouse_table(self) -> str:
        return "code_binja_strings_raw"