Nandi Schoots

23 papers A* 1A 4Journal 15Unranked 3
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 conf
EACL (Findings)
Sonakshi Chauhan, Maheep Chaudhary, Kwan Kiu Choy, Samuel Nellessen, Nandi Schoots
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Ari Spiesberger, Juan J. Vazquez, Nicky Pochinkov, Tomas Gavenciak, Peli Grietzer, Gavin Leech, Nandi Schoots
2025 A conf
ECAI
Mattia Jacopo Villani, Nandi Schoots
2025 conf
IJCNLP-AACL (long papers)
Yohan Mathew, Ollie Matthews, Robert McCarthy, Joan Velja, Christian Schröder de Witt, Dylan Cope, Nandi Schoots
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Satvik Golechha, Maheep Chaudhary, Joan Velja, Alessandro Abate, Nandi Schoots
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Lee Sharkey, Bilal Chughtai, Joshua Batson, Jack Lindsey, Jeff Wu, Lucius Bushnaq, Nicholas Goldowsky-Dill, Stefan Heimersheim, Alejandro Ortega, Joseph Isaac Bloom, Stella Biderman, Adrià Garriga-Alonso, Arthur Conmy, Neel Nanda, Jessica Rumbelow, Martin Wattenberg, Nandi Schoots, Joseph Miller, Eric J. Michaud, Stephen Casper, Max Tegmark, William Saunders, David Bau, Eric Todd, Atticus Geiger, Mor Geva, Jesse Hoogland, Daniel Murfet, Tom McGrath
2025 J jnl
Trans. Mach. Learn. Res.
Lee Sharkey, Bilal Chughtai, Joshua Batson, Jack Lindsey, Jeffrey Wu, Lucius Bushnaq, Nicholas Goldowsky-Dill, Stefan Heimersheim, Alejandro Ortega, Joseph Isaac Bloom, Stella Biderman, Adrià Garriga-Alonso, Arthur Conmy, Neel Nanda, Jessica Rumbelow, Martin Wattenberg, Nandi Schoots, Joseph Miller, William Saunders, Eric J. Michaud, Stephen Casper, Max Tegmark, David Bau, Eric Todd, Atticus Geiger, Mor Geva, Jesse Hoogland, Daniel Murfet, Tom McGrath
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Sonakshi Chauhan, Maheep Chaudhary, Koby Choy, Samuel Nellessen, Nandi Schoots
2025 A conf
AISTATS
Nandi Schoots, Mattia Jacopo Villani, Niels uit de Bos
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Nandi Schoots, Mattia Jacopo Villani, Niels uit de Bos
2024 A conf
ECAI
Dylan Cope, Nandi Schoots
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Nicholas Pochinkov, Nandi Schoots
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Teun van der Weij, Massimo Poesio, Nandi Schoots
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Yohan Mathew, Ollie Matthews, Robert McCarthy, Joan Velja, Christian Schröder de Witt, Dylan Cope, Nandi Schoots
2024 A conf
ECAI
Nandi Schoots, Alex Jackson, Ali Kholmovia, Peter McBurney, Murray Shanahan
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Nandi Schoots, Alex Jackson, Ali Kholmovaia, Peter McBurney, Murray Shanahan
2023 A* conf
ICML
Adam X. Yang, Maxime Robeyns, Edward Milsom, Ben Anson, Nandi Schoots, Laurence Aitchison
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Mattia Jacopo Villani, Nandi Schoots
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Hugo Fry, Seamus Fallows, Ian Fan, Jamie Wright, Nandi Schoots
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Ole Jorgensen, Dylan Cope, Nandi Schoots, Murray Shanahan
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Nandi Schoots, Dylan Cope
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Dylan Cope, Nandi Schoots
2021 conf
SafeAI@AAAI
Gavin Leech, Nandi Schoots, Joar Skalse
redb/extractors/js_extractors/js_xray.py
← Index redb/extractors/js_extractors/js_xray.py python
"""Subprocess wrapper for the bundled js-x-ray Node bridge.

Mirrors `js_deobfuscator.py`: shell out to a Node script with a per-sample
timeout, kill the process group on hang, demote `FileNotFoundError` to debug
(missing tool is routine — the host either has Node + the bundled package
installed or it doesn't), and return a structured result on success.

The bridge lives at `redb/extractors/js_extractors/scripts/js-xray-runner.js`.
Operators install the JS dependency once with `npm install` in that directory
(or override the path with `JS_XRAY_RUNNER_PATH`).

Configuration (env vars):
    JS_XRAY_RUNNER_PATH   Path to the Node bridge script (default: bundled).
    JS_XRAY_TIMEOUT       Seconds before the subprocess is killed. Default: 30.

`run(source, log)` returns `XRayResult(obfuscator, warnings)` on a successful
analysis, or `XRayResult(None, [])` for any non-success path (binary missing,
timeout, parse failure, etc.). The two unsuccessful states are
indistinguishable to the caller on purpose — they all collapse to "no
js-x-ray verdict, fall back to heuristic".
"""

from __future__ import annotations

import json
import os
import signal
import subprocess
import tempfile
from dataclasses import dataclass, field
from typing import List, Optional

# Bundled bridge: redb/extractors/js_extractors/scripts/js-xray-runner.js
_DEFAULT_RUNNER = os.path.join(
    os.path.dirname(__file__), "scripts", "js-xray-runner.js"
)
_DEFAULT_NODE = "node"
_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_SECS = 30


@dataclass
class XRayResult:
    """Parsed js-x-ray output. `obfuscator` is the recognised family name
    (e.g. "jsfuck", "obfuscator.io") or None when js-x-ray did not flag the
    code. `warnings` carries every {kind, value} pair the analyser produced;
    the heuristic uses it as a corroborating signal. `avg_identifier_length`
    is js-x-ray's own AST-derived figure — used as a fallback for the
    heuristic's `avg_identifier_length<2` strong signal when pyjsparser
    can't parse the source (anything ES2015+ trips it)."""

    obfuscator: Optional[str] = None
    warnings: List[dict] = field(default_factory=list)
    avg_identifier_length: Optional[float] = None

    @property
    def flagged(self) -> bool:
        return self.obfuscator is not None


def _empty() -> XRayResult:
    return XRayResult(obfuscator=None, warnings=[])


def run(source: str, log) -> XRayResult:
    if not source:
        return _empty()

    runner = os.getenv("JS_XRAY_RUNNER_PATH", _DEFAULT_RUNNER)
    node_bin = os.getenv("JS_XRAY_NODE_BIN", _DEFAULT_NODE)
    timeout = int(os.getenv("JS_XRAY_TIMEOUT", str(_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_SECS)))

    if not os.path.exists(runner):
        log.debug(f"js-x-ray runner not found at {runner}")
        return _empty()

    # Skip the subprocess entirely when the JS dependency isn't installed.
    # Without this, every call to a host that has `node` but never ran
    # `npm install` next to the runner would still fork node, get a require
    # error, and exit nonzero — wasted ~50–200ms per JS sample (and per test).
    runner_dir = os.path.dirname(runner)
    if not os.path.isdir(os.path.join(runner_dir, "node_modules", "@nodesecure", "js-x-ray")):
        log.debug(f"@nodesecure/js-x-ray not installed in {runner_dir}")
        return _empty()

    tmp_path = None
    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(
                [node_bin, runner, tmp_path],
                stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
                preexec_fn=os.setsid,
            )
            try:
                stdout, stderr = process.communicate(timeout=timeout)
            except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
                # Kill the whole process group so any node helpers die 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"js-x-ray timed out after {timeout}s")
                return _empty()

            if process.returncode != 0:
                err = stderr.decode("utf-8", errors="replace").strip()
                log.debug(f"js-x-ray exited {process.returncode}: {err}")
                return _empty()

            text = stdout.decode("utf-8", errors="replace").strip()
            if not text:
                return _empty()

            try:
                payload = json.loads(text)
            except json.JSONDecodeError as e:
                log.warning(f"js-x-ray emitted non-JSON output: {e}")
                return _empty()

            obfuscator = payload.get("obfuscator")
            warnings = payload.get("warnings") or []
            if not isinstance(warnings, list):
                warnings = []

            ids_avg = payload.get("idsLengthAvg")
            if not isinstance(ids_avg, (int, float)):
                ids_avg = None

            return XRayResult(
                obfuscator=obfuscator,
                warnings=warnings,
                avg_identifier_length=ids_avg,
            )
        finally:
            if tmp_path:
                try:
                    os.unlink(tmp_path)
                except Exception:
                    pass
    except FileNotFoundError:
        log.debug(f"node binary not found at {node_bin}")
        return _empty()
    except Exception as e:
        log.error(f"js-x-ray subprocess error: {e}")
        return _empty()