Nabeel Khan

34 papers B 3C 2Misc 3Journal 14Unranked 11
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2024 J jnl
Sensors
Jayasingam Adhuran, Nabeel Khan, Maria G. Martini
2024 conf
ECCV Workshops (24)
Jayasingam Adhuran, Nabeel Khan, Maria G. Martini
2023 J jnl
Ecol. Informatics
Loveleen Gaur, Anam Afaq, Gursimar Kaur Arora, Nabeel Khan
2023 J jnl
Sensors
Lehel Salat, Mastaneh Davis, Nabeel Khan
2022 J jnl
IEEE Access
Maria G. Martini, Jayasingam Adhuran, Nabeel Khan
2021 J jnl
Int. J. Interact. Mob. Technol.
Fetoon Algarawi, Nabeel Khan
2021 J jnl
Int. J. Interact. Mob. Technol.
Gareebah Al-Rasheedi, Nabeel Khan
2021 J jnl
IEEE Internet Things J.
Nabeel Khan, Khurram Iqbal, Maria G. Martini
2020 Misc conf
ICASSP
Maria G. Martini, Nabeel Khan, Yin Bi, Yiannis Andreopoulos, Hadi Saki, Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei
2020 J jnl
IEEE Access
Nabeel Khan, Khurram Iqbal, Maria G. Martini
2020 Misc conf
ICASSP
Khurram Iqbal, Nabeel Khan, Maria G. Martini
2020 conf
REV
Fiza Alina, Nabeel Khan, Syed Ubaidullah Bukhari, Syed Usman Amin, Siraj Anis, Sarmad Ahmed Shaikh
2019 conf
CAMAD
Nabajeet Barman, Nabeel Khan, Maria G. Martini
2019 Misc conf
IVCNZ
Kaier Wang, Nabeel Khan, Ralph Highnam
2019 J jnl
Sensors
Nabeel Khan, Maria G. Martini
2019 C conf
PSIVT
Kaier Wang, Nabeel Khan, Ariane Chan, Jonathan Dunne, Ralph Highnam
2019 conf
CAMAD
Hadi Saki, Nabeel Khan, Maria G. Martini, Moustafa M. Nasralla
2018 J jnl
Comput. Commun.
Moustafa M. Nasralla, Nabeel Khan, Maria G. Martini
2018 B conf
PIMRC
Nabeel Khan, Maria G. Martini
2016 J jnl
Int. J. Inf. Technol. Web Eng.
Nabeel Khan, Adil Al-Yasiri
2016 J jnl
CoRR
Nabeel Khan, Adil Al-Yasiri
2016 conf
FNC/MobiSPC
Nabeel Khan, Adil Al-Yasiri
2016 B conf
PIMRC
Nabeel Khan, Maria G. Martini
2016 J jnl
EURASIP J. Wirel. Commun. Netw.
Nabeel Khan, Maria G. Martini
2015 C conf
PSIVT
Nabeel Khan, Kaier Wang, Ariane Chan, Ralph Highnam
2015 conf
ICC Workshops
Nabeel Khan, Maria G. Martini
2015 conf
ICC Workshops
Nabeel Khan, Moustafa M. Nasralla, Maria G. Martini
2014 J jnl
EURASIP J. Wirel. Commun. Netw.
Nabeel Khan, Maria G. Martini, Dirk Staehle
2014
Nabeel Khan
2013 conf
VTC Fall
Nabeel Khan, Maria G. Martini, Dirk Staehle
2013 conf
VTC Fall
Nabeel Khan, Maria G. Martini, Dirk Staehle
2012 B conf
WCNC
Nabeel Khan, Maria G. Martini, Zubin Bharucha, Gunther Auer
2012 conf
SPAWC
Nabeel Khan, Maria G. Martini, Zubin Bharucha
2011 conf
ISABEL
Chaminda T. E. R. Hewage, Maria G. Martini, Nabeel Khan
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