Nasser Hosseinzadeh

27 papers A 1B 1C 4Journal 17Unranked 4
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
Symmetry
Lahiru Aththanayake, Devinder Kaur, Shama Naz Islam, Ameen Gargoom, Nasser Hosseinzadeh
2024 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Smart Grid
Muhammad Akbar Husnoo, Adnan Anwar, Nasser Hosseinzadeh, Shama Naz Islam, Abdun Naser Mahmood, Robin Doss
2024 C conf
IAS
Sithara S. G. Acharige, Md. Enamul Haque, Cameron Smith, Mohammad Taufiqul Arif, Nasser Hosseinzadeh, Kazi N. Hasan, M. J. Hossain, Kashem M. Muttaqi
2023 J jnl
IEEE Access
Devinder Kaur, Adnan Anwar, Innocent Kamwa, Shama Naz Islam, S. M. Muyeen, Nasser Hosseinzadeh
2023 J jnl
Future Gener. Comput. Syst.
Muhammad Akbar Husnoo, Adnan Anwar, Nasser Hosseinzadeh, Shama Naz Islam, Abdun Naser Mahmood, Robin Doss
2023 conf
INFOCOM Workshops
Muhammad Akbar Husnoo, Adnan Anwar, Haftu Tasew Reda, Nasser Hosseinzadeh, Shama Naz Islam, Abdun Naser Mahmood, Robin Doss
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Muhammad Akbar Husnoo, Adnan Anwar, Haftu Tasew Reda, Nasser Hosseinzadeh, Shama Naz Islam, Abdun Naser Mahmood, Robin Doss
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Muhammad Akbar Husnoo, Adnan Anwar, Haftu Tasew Reda, Nasser Hosseinzadeh, Shama Naz Islam, Abdun Naser Mahmood, Robin Doss
2023 J jnl
IEEE Syst. J.
Meisam Mahdavi, Hassan Haes Alhelou, Pasala Gopi, Nasser Hosseinzadeh
2023 B conf
GLOBECOM
Muhammad Akbar Husnoo, Adnan Anwar, Nasser Hosseinzadeh, Robin Doss, Biplab Sikdar
2023 A conf
AsiaCCS
Muhammad Akbar Husnoo, Adnan Anwar, Haftu Tasew Reda, Nasser Hosseinzadeh
2023 J jnl
IEEE Access
Sithara S. G. Acharige, Md. Enamul Haque, Mohammad Taufiqul Arif, Nasser Hosseinzadeh, Kazi N. Hasan, Aman Maung Than Oo
2023 conf
ARTMAN@CCS
Muhammad Akbar Husnoo, Adnan Anwar, Robin Doss, Nasser Hosseinzadeh
2022 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron.
Ali Zafari, Majid Mehrasa, Seddik Bacha, Kamal Al-Haddad, Nasser Hosseinzadeh
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Muhammad Akbar Husnoo, Adnan Anwar, Nasser Hosseinzadeh, Shama Naz Islam, Abdun Naser Mahmood, Robin Doss
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Muhammad Akbar Husnoo, Adnan Anwar, Nasser Hosseinzadeh, Shama Naz Islam, Abdun Naser Mahmood, Robin Doss
2022 C conf
IAS
Sithara S. G. Acharige, Md. Enamul Haque, Nasser Hosseinzadeh, Mohammad Taufiqul Arif
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Sithara S. G. Acharige, Md. Enamul Haque, Mohammad Taufiqul Arif, Nasser Hosseinzadeh
2022 J jnl
IEEE Access
Ali Zafari, Erfan Azimi, Majid Mehrasa, Hossein Hafezi, Seddik Bacha, Nasser Hosseinzadeh
2021 conf
ICIT
Ali Zafari, Majid Mehrasa, Mohammad Sharifzadeh, Seddik Bacha, Kamal Al-Haddad, Nasser Hosseinzadeh
2021 C conf
IECON
Ali Zafari, Majid Mehrasa, Mohammad Sharifzadeh, Seddik Bacha, Kamal Al-Haddad, Nasser Hosseinzadeh
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Muhammad Akbar Husnoo, Adnan Anwar, Nasser Hosseinzadeh, Shama Naz Islam, Abdun Naser Mahmood, Robin Doss
2016 J jnl
Int. J. Knowl. Learn.
Faïçal Mnif, Nasser Hosseinzadeh
2016 C conf
EDUCON
Nasser Hosseinzadeh, Faïçal Mnif
2012 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Educ.
Nasser Hosseinzadeh, Mohammad Reza Hesamzadeh
2011 conf
ATNAC
Mehdi Korki, Nasser Hosseinzadeh, Hai Le Vu, Taleb Moazzeni, Chuan Heng Foh
2011 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Consumer Electron.
Mehdi Korki, Nasser Hosseinzadeh, Taleb Moazzeni
redb/extractors/js_extractor.py
← Index redb/extractors/js_extractor.py python
import logging
import re
from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod

from redb.extractors.extractor import Extractor
from redb.extractors.js_extractors.js_context import JSContext, _text_entropy

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

# ESM is recognised by line-anchored `import ... from "..."` / bare side-effect
# `import "..."` / top-level `export ...`. Anchored at line start to avoid
# matching the substring inside string literals or comments.
_ESM_PATTERN = re.compile(
    r'(?m)^\s*(?:'
    r'import\s+[^;\n]*?\bfrom\s+[\'"]'
    r'|import\s+[\'"][^\'"]+[\'"]'
    r'|export\s+(?:default\b|\{|\*|const\b|let\b|var\b|function\b|class\b|async\b)'
    r')'
)


@abstractmethod
class JSExtractor(Extractor, metaclass=ABCMeta):
    """Base class for JavaScript file extractors.

    Every JSExtractor reads its raw materials (bytes / decoded source / line
    list / scan_source results / pyjsparser AST / text entropy) from a shared
    `JSContext`. When workers.py drives the JS pipeline it builds one context
    per sample and threads it into every extractor via `context=`. When tests
    or other callers instantiate an extractor directly, the constructor builds
    a fresh context from `(filepath, source=...)`.

    All historical instance attributes (`self.binary`, `self.js_source`,
    `self.lines`) and helpers (`self._decode_source`, `self._parse_ast`,
    `self._calculate_text_entropy`) are preserved as thin delegators so
    existing extractor code keeps working unchanged.
    """

    def __init__(
        self,
        filepath,
        log,
        exporters=None,
        index_prefix=None,
        known_benign=False,
        known_malicious=False,
        source=None,
        context=None,
    ):
        if context is None:
            context = JSContext.from_path(filepath, log=log, source=source)
        elif source is not None and context.source != source:
            log.warning(
                "JSExtractor received both `source=` and `context=` with "
                "differing source; ignoring source kwarg"
            )
        self._context = context

        super().__init__(
            filepath,
            log,
            exporters,
            index_prefix,
            known_benign=known_benign,
            known_malicious=known_malicious,
        )

    @property
    def binary(self):
        return self._context.raw_bytes

    @property
    def js_source(self):
        return self._context.source

    @property
    def lines(self):
        return self._context.lines

    def _decode_source(self):
        """Back-compat shim — the context already decoded once at construction.

        Kept so any external caller using the historical method name keeps
        working without touching the underlying bytes again.
        """
        return self._context.source

    def _parse_ast(self):
        """Return the shared pyjsparser AST (or None if unavailable)."""
        return self._context.ast

    def _calculate_text_entropy(self, text):
        """Shannon text entropy for `text`.

        When `text` is the context's own source we read the cached value;
        otherwise we compute fresh. JSStringsExtractor calls this on arbitrary
        decoded substrings, so the fresh-compute path must remain available.
        """
        if text is self._context.source:
            return self._context.text_entropy
        return _text_entropy(text)

    def _detect_environment(self):
        """Detect the target JS runtime environment."""
        src = self.js_source
        if not src:
            return "unknown"

        # WScript/WSH indicators
        wscript_patterns = [
            'WScript.', 'WSH.', 'ActiveXObject', 'Scripting.FileSystemObject',
            'WScript.Shell', 'ADODB.Stream',
        ]
        for p in wscript_patterns:
            if p in src:
                return "wscript"

        # Browser-extension APIs — checked before generic browser/worker because
        # `chrome.*` and `browser.runtime` are distinctive of MV2/MV3 extensions
        extension_patterns = [
            'chrome.runtime', 'chrome.tabs', 'chrome.storage',
            'chrome.webRequest', 'browser.runtime', 'browser.tabs',
        ]
        for p in extension_patterns:
            if p in src:
                return "browser_extension"

        # Service / Web Workers — worker-only APIs that don't appear in regular
        # browser pages (a generic browser script would use `window.` or
        # `document.`, never `self.importScripts` or `caches.match`)
        worker_patterns = [
            "self.addEventListener('fetch'", 'self.addEventListener("fetch"',
            'self.importScripts', 'self.skipWaiting',
            'caches.match', 'caches.open',
        ]
        for p in worker_patterns:
            if p in src:
                return "service_worker"

        # Deno runtime
        if 'Deno.' in src:
            return "deno"

        # Node.js indicators
        node_patterns = [
            'require(', 'module.exports', 'process.env', '__dirname',
            '__filename', 'Buffer.', 'child_process',
        ]
        for p in node_patterns:
            if p in src:
                return "node"

        # Browser indicators
        browser_patterns = [
            'document.', 'window.', 'navigator.', 'localStorage',
            'sessionStorage', 'XMLHttpRequest', 'addEventListener',
        ]
        for p in browser_patterns:
            if p in src:
                return "browser"

        return "unknown"

    def _detect_script_type(self):
        """Detect the script type/format."""
        src = self.js_source
        if not src:
            return "unknown"

        stripped = src.lstrip()

        # JScript.Encode payload — must be checked first since the encoded
        # body can't be classified any other way
        if stripped.startswith('#@~^'):
            return "jse"

        # WSF / HTA live in the first few KB of an HTML-ish wrapper
        head_lower = stripped[:4096].lower()

        # Windows Script File — XML wrapper around one or more <script> blocks
        if ('<job' in head_lower or '<package' in head_lower) and '<script' in head_lower:
            return "wsf"

        # HTML Application — distinct from generic embedded_html because HTAs
        # run under mshta.exe with full WSH/ActiveX access
        if '<hta:application' in head_lower or 'application/hta' in head_lower:
            return "hta"

        if stripped.startswith('<!') or stripped.startswith('<html') or '<script' in stripped[:2000]:
            return "embedded_html"

        if 'WScript.' in src or 'WSH.' in src:
            return "wscript"

        if _ESM_PATTERN.search(src):
            return "esm"

        if 'require(' in src or 'module.exports' in src:
            return "node_module"

        return "standalone"