Omid Abbasi

46 papers B 2Journal 36Unranked 8
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Commun.
Hesam Khoshkbari, Georges Kaddoum, Omid Abbasi, Bassant Selim, Halim Yanikomeroglu
2025 conf
ICC Workshops
Omid Abbasi, Georges Kaddoum, Halim Yanikomeroglu
2025 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun.
Omid Abbasi, Georges Kaddoum, Halim Yanikomeroglu
2025 conf
ICC
Hesam Khoshkbari, Georges Kaddoum, Bassant Selim, Omid Abbasi, Halim Yanikomeroglu
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Hesam Khoshkbari, Georges Kaddoum, Bassant Selim, Omid Abbasi, Halim Yanikomeroglu
2024 J jnl
IEEE Open J. Commun. Soc.
Weili Wang, Omid Abbasi, Halim Yanikomeroglu, Chengchao Liang, Lun Tang, Qianbin Chen
2024 J jnl
IEEE Netw. Lett.
Omid Abbasi, Georges Kaddoum
2024 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun.
Amin Farajzadeh, Animesh Yadav, Omid Abbasi, Wael Jaafar, Halim Yanikomeroglu
2024 J jnl
IEEE Wirel. Commun.
Omid Abbasi, Animesh Yadav, Halim Yanikomeroglu, Ngoc-Dung Dào, Gamini Senarath, Peiying Zhu
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Omid Abbasi, Halim Yanikomeroglu, Georges Kaddoum
2024 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun.
Omid Abbasi, Halim Yanikomeroglu, Georges Kaddoum
2024 B conf
WCNC
Omid Abbasi, Halim Yanikomeroglu, Georges Kaddoum
2024 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun.
Rozita Shafie, Mohammad Javad Omidi, Omid Abbasi, Halim Yanikomeroglu
2024 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol.
Omid Abbasi, Halim Yanikomeroglu
2024 J jnl
IEEE Netw.
Weili Wang, Omid Abbasi, Halim Yanikomeroglu, Chengchao Liang, Lun Tang, Qianbin Chen
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Weili Wang, Omid Abbasi, Halim Yanikomeroglu, Chengchao Liang, Lun Tang, Qianbin Chen
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Amin Farajzadeh, Animesh Yadav, Omid Abbasi, Wael Jaafar, Halim Yanikomeroglu
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Omid Abbasi, Animesh Yadav, Halim Yanikomeroglu, Ngoc-Dung Dào, Gamini Senarath, Peiying Zhu
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Qiqi Ren, Omid Abbasi, Gunes Karabulut-Kurt, Halim Yanikomeroglu, Jian Chen
2023 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun.
Qiqi Ren, Omid Abbasi, Gunes Karabulut-Kurt, Halim Yanikomeroglu, Jian Chen
2023 conf
ICC
Qiqi Ren, Omid Abbasi, Gunes Karabulut-Kurt, Halim Yanikomeroglu, Jian Chen
2023 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun.
Omid Abbasi, Halim Yanikomeroglu
2022 conf
ICC
Omid Abbasi, Halim Yanikomeroglu
2022 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun.
Qiqi Ren, Omid Abbasi, Gunes Karabulut-Kurt, Halim Yanikomeroglu, Jian Chen
2022 J jnl
IEEE Wirel. Commun. Lett.
Afsoon Alidadi Shamsabadi, Animesh Yadav, Omid Abbasi, Halim Yanikomeroglu
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Afsoon Alidadi Shamsabadi, Animesh Yadav, Omid Abbasi, Halim Yanikomeroglu
2022 J jnl
NeuroImage
Nikolas Chalas, Christoph Daube, Daniel S. Kluger, Omid Abbasi, Robert Nitsch, Joachim Gross
2022 conf
GLOBECOM (Workshops)
Rozita Shafie, Mohammad Javad Omidi, Omid Abbasi, Halim Yanikomeroglu
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Rozita Shafie, Mohammad Javad Omidi, Omid Abbasi, Halim Yanikomeroglu
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Omid Abbasi, Halim Yanikomeroglu
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Omid Abbasi, Halim Yanikomeroglu
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Weili Wang, Omid Abbasi, Halim Yanikomeroglu, Chengchao Liang, Lun Tang, Qianbin Chen
2021 J jnl
IEEE Internet Things J.
Qiqi Ren, Jian Chen, Omid Abbasi, Gunes Karabulut-Kurt, Halim Yanikomeroglu, F. Richard Yu
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Qiqi Ren, Omid Abbasi, Gunes Karabulut-Kurt, Halim Yanikomeroglu, Jian Chen
2021 J jnl
NeuroImage
Joachim Gross, Daniel S. Kluger, Omid Abbasi, Nikolas Chalas, Nadine Steingräber, Christoph Daube, Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen
2021 B conf
GLOBECOM
Qiqi Ren, Omid Abbasi, Gunes Karabulut-Kurt, Halim Yanikomeroglu, Jian Chen
2021 conf
WCNC Workshops
Omid Abbasi, Halim Yanikomeroglu
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Qiqi Ren, Jian Chen, Omid Abbasi, Gunes Karabulut-Kurt, Halim Yanikomeroglu, F. Richard Yu
2020 conf
VTC Fall
Omid Abbasi, Halim Yanikomeroglu, Afshin Ebrahimi, Nader Mokari, Mohamed Alzenad
2020 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun.
Omid Abbasi, Halim Yanikomeroglu, Afshin Ebrahimi, Nader Mokari Yamchi
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Omid Abbasi, Halim Yanikomeroglu, Afshin Ebrahimi, Nader Mokari Yamchi
2019 J jnl
IEEE Wirel. Commun. Lett.
Omid Abbasi, Afshin Ebrahimi, Nader Mokari
2018 J jnl
Trans. Emerg. Telecommun. Technol.
Omid Abbasi, Afshin Ebrahimi
2018 J jnl
NeuroImage
Omid Abbasi, Jan Hirschmann, Lena Storzer, Tolga Esat Özkurt, Saskia Elben, Jan Vesper, Lars Wojtecki, Georg Schmitz, Alfons Schnitzler, Markus Butz
2017 conf
IWCIT
Omid Abbasi, Afshin Ebrahimi
2011 J jnl
BMC Bioinform.
Omid Abbasi, Ali Rostami, Ghader Karimian
redb/extractors/js_extractors/js_strings.py
← Index redb/extractors/js_extractors/js_strings.py python
import base64
import bisect
import inspect
import re
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 STRING_PATTERNS, line_offsets

# Local aliases for the compiled patterns this extractor uses. Defined and
# compiled exactly once in js_patterns.STRING_PATTERNS.
_HEX_STRING_RE = STRING_PATTERNS["hex_escape_seq"]
_UNICODE_STRING_RE = STRING_PATTERNS["unicode_escape_seq"]
_CHARCODE_RE = STRING_PATTERNS["charcode_call"]
_BASE64_STRING_RE = STRING_PATTERNS["base64_quoted"]
_CONCAT_STRING_RE = STRING_PATTERNS["concat_chain"]

# Tokeniser used inside _reconstruct_concat to pull each quoted part out of a
# matched concat chain. Compiled once at module load (was recompiled on every
# concat match before).
_CONCAT_TOKEN_RE = re.compile(r'["\']([^"\']*)["\']')


class JSStringsExtractor(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.string_findings = None
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

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

    def _decode_hex_string(self, hex_str):
        """Decode \\x41\\x42 style hex strings."""
        try:
            # Remove \\x prefix and decode
            clean = hex_str.replace('\\x', '')
            return bytes.fromhex(clean).decode('utf-8', errors='replace')
        except Exception:
            return None

    def _decode_unicode_string(self, uni_str):
        """Decode \\u0041\\u0042 style unicode strings."""
        try:
            return uni_str.encode('utf-8').decode('unicode_escape')
        except Exception:
            return None

    def _decode_charcode(self, charcode_str):
        """Decode String.fromCharCode(72, 101, 108, ...) sequences."""
        try:
            codes = [int(c.strip()) for c in charcode_str.split(',') if c.strip().isdigit()]
            return ''.join(chr(c) for c in codes if 0 <= c <= 0x10FFFF)
        except Exception:
            return None

    def _decode_base64(self, b64_str):
        """Attempt to decode base64 string."""
        try:
            decoded = base64.b64decode(b64_str)
            # Check if result is printable text
            text = decoded.decode('utf-8', errors='strict')
            # Only return if it looks like text (>80% printable)
            printable = sum(1 for c in text if c.isprintable() or c in '\n\r\t')
            if printable / len(text) > 0.8:
                return text
        except Exception:
            pass
        return None

    def _reconstruct_concat(self, concat_match):
        """Reconstruct concatenated string parts."""
        try:
            parts = _CONCAT_TOKEN_RE.findall(concat_match)
            return ''.join(parts)
        except Exception:
            return None

    def _find_line_number(self, match_start):
        """1-indexed line number for `match_start`, looked up in O(log L) via
        bisect over `self._line_offsets` (built once per extract() call).

        Replaces the historical `self.js_source[:match_start].count('\\n') + 1`
        which was O(N) per call and quadratic across all matches in a sample.
        """
        return bisect.bisect_right(self._line_offsets, match_start)

    def _scan_text(self, text):
        """Run every encoded-string pattern over `text` and return a list of
        finding dicts. Stateless apart from the per-call `_line_offsets` cache,
        which `_find_line_number` reads — callers must reset it before invoking
        this so line numbers reference the text being scanned, not the previous
        one.
        """
        findings = []

        # Hex-encoded strings
        for m in _HEX_STRING_RE.finditer(text):
            raw = m.group()
            decoded = self._decode_hex_string(raw)
            if decoded and len(decoded) >= 4:
                findings.append({
                    'string': decoded[:4000],
                    'string_raw': raw[:4000],
                    'string_encoding': 'hex',
                    'string_offset': self._find_line_number(m.start()),
                    'string_length': len(decoded),
                    'string_raw_length': len(raw),
                    'string_entropy': self._calculate_text_entropy(decoded),
                })

        # Unicode-encoded strings
        for m in _UNICODE_STRING_RE.finditer(text):
            raw = m.group()
            decoded = self._decode_unicode_string(raw)
            if decoded and len(decoded) >= 3:
                findings.append({
                    'string': decoded[:4000],
                    'string_raw': raw[:4000],
                    'string_encoding': 'unicode',
                    'string_offset': self._find_line_number(m.start()),
                    'string_length': len(decoded),
                    'string_raw_length': len(raw),
                    'string_entropy': self._calculate_text_entropy(decoded),
                })

        # String.fromCharCode sequences
        for m in _CHARCODE_RE.finditer(text):
            raw = m.group()
            decoded = self._decode_charcode(m.group(1))
            if decoded and len(decoded) >= 4:
                findings.append({
                    'string': decoded[:4000],
                    'string_raw': raw[:4000],
                    'string_encoding': 'charcode',
                    'string_offset': self._find_line_number(m.start()),
                    'string_length': len(decoded),
                    'string_raw_length': len(raw),
                    'string_entropy': self._calculate_text_entropy(decoded),
                })

        # Base64-encoded strings
        for m in _BASE64_STRING_RE.finditer(text):
            raw = m.group(0)
            b64_val = m.group(1)
            decoded = self._decode_base64(b64_val)
            if decoded and len(decoded) >= 10:
                findings.append({
                    'string': decoded[:4000],
                    'string_raw': raw[:4000],
                    'string_encoding': 'base64',
                    'string_offset': self._find_line_number(m.start()),
                    'string_length': len(decoded),
                    'string_raw_length': len(raw),
                    'string_entropy': self._calculate_text_entropy(decoded),
                })

        # Concatenated strings (reassembled)
        for m in _CONCAT_STRING_RE.finditer(text):
            raw = m.group()
            reconstructed = self._reconstruct_concat(raw)
            if reconstructed and len(reconstructed) >= 20:
                findings.append({
                    'string': reconstructed[:4000],
                    'string_raw': raw[:4000],
                    'string_encoding': 'concat',
                    'string_offset': self._find_line_number(m.start()),
                    'string_length': len(reconstructed),
                    'string_raw_length': len(raw),
                    'string_entropy': self._calculate_text_entropy(reconstructed),
                })

        return findings

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

        # Pass 1: raw source. _line_offsets is keyed off whichever text is
        # currently being scanned so _find_line_number resolves to that text.
        self._line_offsets = line_offsets(src)
        findings = self._scan_text(src)

        # Pass 2: deobfuscated text, when the deobfuscator produced something
        # meaningfully different. Same patterns, but a different surface — for
        # samples where the encoded payload is hidden behind an outer wrapper
        # (e.g. array.join() + eval in Vjw0rm/WSH-RAT) only this pass yields
        # any rows at all.
        deobf_text, _ = self._context.deobfuscated
        if deobf_text and deobf_text != src:
            self._line_offsets = line_offsets(deobf_text)
            findings.extend(self._scan_text(deobf_text))

        if not findings:
            return None

        # Deduplicate by decoded string value (raw pass wins on collision: it
        # comes first in `findings`). A string that surfaces only in the
        # deobfuscated text still gets persisted, which is the whole point of
        # the second pass.
        seen_values = set()
        deduped = []
        for f in findings:
            val_key = f['string'][:100]
            if val_key not in seen_values:
                seen_values.add(val_key)
                deduped.append(f)

        self.string_findings = deduped[:500]  # Limit per file
        # Publish to the shared context so post-loop consumers (notably the IOC
        # plumbing in workers.py) can scrape the decoded strings without
        # holding a reference to this extractor instance.
        self._context.decoded_strings = self.string_findings
        return self.string_findings

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

            data = []
            for f in self.string_findings:
                data.append([
                    self.sha256,
                    f['string'],
                    f['string_raw'],
                    f['string_encoding'],
                    f['string_offset'],
                    f['string_length'],
                    f['string_raw_length'],
                    f['string_entropy'],
                ])

            column_names = [
                "sha256",
                "string",
                "string_raw",
                "string_encoding",
                "string_offset",
                "string_length",
                "string_raw_length",
                "string_entropy",
            ]

            column_type_names = [
                "FixedString(64)",
                "String",
                "String",
                "LowCardinality(String)",
                "UInt64",
                "UInt32",
                "UInt32",
                "Float32",
            ]

            return (data, column_names, column_type_names)

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