Najwan Alsadat

11 papers Journal 11
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
Qual. Reliab. Eng. Int.
Amal S. Hassan, Najwan Alsadat, Mohammed Elgarhy, Arne Johannssen, Ehab M. Almetwally
2024 J jnl
IEEE Access
Mustapha Muhammad, Badamasi Abba, Jinsen Xiao, Najwan Alsadat, Farrukh Jamal, Mohammed Elgarhy
2023 J jnl
Symmetry
Mohammed Elgarhy, Najwan Alsadat, Amal S. Hassan, Christophe Chesneau, Alaa H. Abdel-Hamid
2023 J jnl
Symmetry
Najwan Alsadat, Amal S. Hassan, Mohammed Elgarhy, Christophe Chesneau, Rokaya Elmorsy Mohamed
2023 J jnl
Axioms
Amal S. Hassan, Najwan Alsadat, Mohammed Elgarhy, Christophe Chesneau, Heba F. Nagy
2023 J jnl
Axioms
Najwan Alsadat, Mohammed Elgarhy, Kadir Karakaya, Ahmed M. Gemeay, Christophe Chesneau, Mahmoud M. Abd El-Raouf
2023 J jnl
Symmetry
Eberechukwu Q. Chinedu, Queensley C. Chukwudum, Najwan Alsadat, Okechukwu J. Obulezi, Ehab M. Almetwally, Ahlam H. Tolba
2023 J jnl
Axioms
Mahmoud Hamed Abu-Moussa, Najwan Alsadat, Ali Sharawy
2023 J jnl
Axioms
Najwan Alsadat, Amal S. Hassan, Mohammed Elgarhy, Christophe Chesneau, Ahmed R. El-Saeed
2023 J jnl
Axioms
Shashi Bhushan, Anoop Kumar, Najwan Alsadat, Manahil SidAhmed Mustafa, Meshayil M. Alsolmi
2023 J jnl
Symmetry
Rabab S. Gomaa, Alia M. Magar, Najwan Alsadat, Ehab M. Almetwally, Ahlam H. Tolba
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)