Ned Cooper

24 papers A* 3A 1B 2Misc 1Journal 14Unranked 3
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 A* conf
CHI
Ned Cooper, Jose A. Guridi, Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang, Beth Kolko, Emma Elizabeth McGinty, Qian Yang
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Ned Cooper, Jose A. Guridi, Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang, Beth Kolko, Emma Elizabeth McGinty, Qian Yang
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Jared Moore, Rasmus Overmark, Ned Cooper, Beba Cibralic, Nick Haber, Cameron R. Jones
2025 B conf
ICMI
Josh Andres, Chris Danta, Andrea Bianchi, Sahar Farzanfar, Gloria Milena Fernández Nieto, Alexa Becker, Tara Capel, Frances Liddell, Shelby Hagemann, Ned Cooper, Sungyeon Hong, Li Lin, Eduardo Benítez Sandoval, Anna Brynskov, Hubert Dariusz Zajac, Zhuying Li, Tianyi Zhang, Arngeir Berge
2025 conf
FAccT
Ben Hutchinson, Celeste Rodríguez Louro, Glenys Collard, Ned Cooper
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Ben Hutchinson, Celeste Rodríguez Louro, Glenys Collard, Ned Cooper
2025 B conf
CogSci
Jared Moore, Rasmus Overmark, Ned Cooper, Beba Cibralic, Nick Haber, Cameron R. Jones
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Jared Moore, Ned Cooper, Rasmus Overmark, Beba Cibralic, Nick Haber, Cameron R. Jones
2024 conf
EACL (2)
Ned Cooper, Courtney Heldreth, Ben Hutchinson
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Ned Cooper, Courtney Heldreth, Ben Hutchinson
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Ned Cooper, Alexandra Zafiroglu
2024 A* conf
CHI
Ned Cooper, Alexandra Zafiroglu
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Ned Cooper, Alex Zafiroglu
2024 J jnl
Big Data Soc.
Skyler Wang, Ned Cooper, Margaret Eby
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Glen Berman, Ned Cooper, Wesley Hanwen Deng, Ben Hutchinson
2024 A conf
Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (Companion Volume)
Josh Andres, Chris Danta, Andrea Bianchi, Sungyeon Hong, Zhuying Li, Eduardo Benítez Sandoval, Charles Patrick Martin, Ned Cooper
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Josh Andres, Chris Danta, Andrea Bianchi, Sungyeon Hong, Zhuying Li, Eduardo B. Sandoval, Charles P. Martin, Ned Cooper
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Ned Cooper
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Skyler Wang, Ned Cooper, Margaret Eby, Eun Seo Jo
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Ned Cooper
2022 A* conf
CHI
Ned Cooper, Tiffanie Horne, Gillian R. Hayes, Courtney Heldreth, Michal Lahav, Jess Holbrook, Lauren Wilcox
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Ned Cooper, Tiffanie Horne, Gillian R. Hayes, Courtney Heldreth, Michal Lahav, Jess Scon Holbrook, Lauren Wilcox
2022 Misc ed.
OZCHI
Penny Sweetser, Jennyfer Lawrence Taylor, Charles Martin, Dana McMay, Melissa J. Rogerson, Bronwyn J. Cumbo, Greg Wadley, Luke Hespanhol, Jess Tsimeris, Mingze Xi, Jane Turner, Soojeong Yoo, Ned Cooper, Jessica S. Rahman, Josh Andres, Ajit G. Pillai, Cat Kutay
2022 conf
PDC (2)
Ned Cooper
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)