Orlando Ayala

16 papers C 1Journal 10Unranked 5
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Educ.
Francisco Cima, Pilar Pazos, Minjung Lee, Kristie Gutierrez, Jennifer Kidd, Orlando Ayala, Stacie Ringleb, Krishnanand N. Kaipa, Danielle Rhemer
2024 conf
NAACL (Industry Track)
Orlando Ayala, Patrice Béchard
2021 J jnl
J. Comput. Phys.
Cheng Peng, Luis F. Ayala, Orlando Ayala
2021 conf
SAI (2)
Lucas Potter, Ernestine Powell, Orlando Ayala, Xavier-Lewis Palmer
2020 J jnl
Comput. Phys. Commun.
Álvaro Salinas, Claudio E. Torres, Orlando Ayala
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Lucas Potter, Orlando Ayala, Xavier-Lewis Palmer
2018 J jnl
Comput. Phys. Commun.
Álvaro Salinas, Claudio E. Torres, Orlando Ayala
2014 J jnl
Comput. Phys. Commun.
Orlando Ayala, Hossein Parishani, Liu Chen, Bogdan Rosa, Lian-Ping Wang
2014 J jnl
Comput. Math. Appl.
Lian-Ping Wang, Orlando Ayala, Hui Gao, Charles Andersen, Kevin L. Mathews
2013 conf
ISVC (2)
Guoyu Lu, Vincent Ly, Xiaolong Wang, M. V. Rohith, Orlando Ayala, Lian-Ping Wang, Chandra Kambhamettu
2013 J jnl
J. Comput. Phys.
Claudio E. Torres, Hossein Parishani, Orlando Ayala, Louis F. Rossi, Lian-Ping Wang
2013 J jnl
Parallel Comput.
Orlando Ayala, Lian-Ping Wang
2012 C conf
NPC
Daniel A. Orozco, Elkin Garcia, Robert S. Pavel, Orlando Ayala, Lian-Ping Wang, Guang R. Gao
2011 conf
ISVC (2)
M. V. Rohith, Hossein Parishani, Orlando Ayala, Lian-Ping Wang, Chandra Kambhamettu
2011 conf
PPAM (2)
Bogdan Rosa, Hossein Parishani, Orlando Ayala, Lian-Ping Wang, Wojciech W. Grabowski
2007 J jnl
J. Comput. Phys.
Orlando Ayala, Wojciech W. Grabowski, Lian-Ping Wang
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)