Nathan Faggian

13 papers B 2Misc 3Journal 4Unranked 3
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2020
Nathan Faggian
2013 J jnl
NeuroImage
Deanne K. Thompson, Christopher L. Adamson, Gehan Roberts, Nathan Faggian, Stephen J. Wood, Simon K. Warfield, Lex W. Doyle, Peter J. Anderson, Gary F. Egan, Terrie E. Inder
2013 J jnl
NeuroImage
Stefanie Dedeurwaerdere, K. Fang, M. Chow, Y.-T. Shen, I. Noordman, L. van Raay, Nathan Faggian, M. Porritt, Gary F. Egan, Terence J. O'Brien
2012 J jnl
NeuroImage
Deanne K. Thompson, Terrie E. Inder, Nathan Faggian, Simon K. Warfield, Peter J. Anderson, Lex W. Doyle, Gary F. Egan
2011 J jnl
NeuroImage
Deanne K. Thompson, Terrie E. Inder, Nathan Faggian, Leigh A. Johnston, Simon K. Warfield, Peter J. Anderson, Lex W. Doyle, Gary F. Egan
2008 B conf
FG
Nathan Faggian, Andrew P. Paplinski, Jamie Sherrah
2008 Misc conf
DICTA
Nathan Faggian, Zhaolin Chen, Leigh A. Johnston, Se-Hong Oh, Zang-Hee Cho, Gary F. Egan
2008 Misc conf
DICTA
Zhaolin Chen, Leigh A. Johnston, Nathan Faggian, Mike Kean, Jingxin Zhang, Gary F. Egan
2007 conf
VISAPP (1)
James Cheong, Nathan Faggian, Georg Langs, David Suter, Flavia M. Cicuttini
2006 conf
Australian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Nathan Faggian, Andrew P. Paplinski, Jamie Sherrah
2006 B conf
AVSS
Nathan Faggian, Andrew P. Paplinski, Jamie Sherrah
2006 conf
ICPR (1)
Nathan Faggian, Andrew P. Paplinski, Tat-Jun Chin
2005 Misc conf
DICTA
Nathan Faggian, Sami Romdhani, Jamie Sherrah, Andrew P. Paplinski
redb/extractors/js_extractors/js_suspicious_apis.py
← Index redb/extractors/js_extractors/js_suspicious_apis.py python
import inspect
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 CATEGORIES, PATTERNS


# Backwards-compatible export: `{category: [(raw_pattern_string, api_name), ...]}`
# in canonical PATTERNS insertion order (code_execution, network, filesystem,
# process, registry, crypto_encoding, dom_manipulation). Kept so external
# callers (notably JSDeobfuscationExtractor pre-cleanup) keep working until
# they are migrated to PATTERNS directly.
SUSPICIOUS_APIS: "dict[str, list[tuple[str, str]]]" = {}
for _name, _compiled in PATTERNS.items():
    SUSPICIOUS_APIS.setdefault(CATEGORIES[_name], []).append((_compiled.pattern, _name))


class JSSuspiciousAPIsExtractor(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.api_findings = None
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

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

    def _get_context_snippet(self, line, max_len=200):
        """Get a truncated context snippet around a match."""
        line = line.strip()
        if len(line) > max_len:
            return line[:max_len] + "..."
        return line

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

        # Pass 1: shared per-sample scan over the raw source. The dict contains
        # entries for both PATTERNS and FEATURE_PATTERNS; the loop below only
        # consults PATTERNS keys, so feature-only entries are ignored.
        raw_scan = self._context.scan or {}
        raw_lines = self.lines

        # Pass 2: same patterns over the deobfuscated text, when the
        # deobfuscator produced something meaningfully different. APIs hidden
        # behind one obfuscation layer (Vjw0rm-style array.join + eval,
        # Dean-Edwards packers, jjencode, ...) only surface here. The scan is
        # cached on JSContext so JSDeobfuscationExtractor (which computes the
        # new_apis_found diff) reuses the same result.
        deobf_scan = self._context.scan_deobfuscated
        if deobf_scan:
            deobf_text, _ = self._context.deobfuscated
            deobf_lines = deobf_text.splitlines()
        else:
            deobf_lines = []

        findings = []
        # Iterate PATTERNS in canonical order so output is deterministic and
        # matches the historical category/pattern ordering. For each api_name,
        # raw findings take precedence; if an API is found only in the
        # deobfuscated text, we surface it as a row tagged revealed_by_deobf=1
        # with line numbers / snippets pulled from the deobfuscated source.
        for api_name in PATTERNS:
            raw_info = raw_scan.get(api_name)
            if raw_info:
                line_numbers = raw_info["lines"]
                lines_for_snippets = raw_lines
                revealed_by_deobf = 0
            else:
                deobf_info = deobf_scan.get(api_name)
                if not deobf_info:
                    continue
                line_numbers = deobf_info["lines"]
                lines_for_snippets = deobf_lines
                revealed_by_deobf = 1

            snippets = [
                self._get_context_snippet(lines_for_snippets[ln - 1])
                for ln in line_numbers[:3]
                if 0 < ln <= len(lines_for_snippets)
            ]
            findings.append({
                "api_name": api_name,
                "api_category": CATEGORIES[api_name],
                # Historical semantics: count = number of unique lines with a
                # match, not total in-source match count.
                "call_count": len(line_numbers),
                "line_numbers": line_numbers,
                "context_snippet": " | ".join(snippets),
                "revealed_by_deobf": revealed_by_deobf,
            })

        if not findings:
            return None

        self.api_findings = findings
        return findings

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

            current_time = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
            data = []
            for f in self.api_findings:
                data.append([
                    self.sha256,
                    f['api_name'],
                    f['api_category'],
                    f['call_count'],
                    f['line_numbers'],
                    f['context_snippet'],
                    f['revealed_by_deobf'],
                    current_time,
                ])

            column_names = [
                "sha256", "api_name", "api_category",
                "call_count", "line_numbers", "context_snippet",
                "revealed_by_deobf",
                "analysis_date",
            ]

            column_type_names = [
                "FixedString(64)", "String", "LowCardinality(String)",
                "UInt32", "Array(UInt32)", "String",
                "UInt8",
                "DateTime64(3, 'UTC')",
            ]

            return (data, column_names, column_type_names)

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