Ralph Grothmann

23 papers B 4C 3Journal 6Unranked 8
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2021 conf
Software Management
Ulrike Dowie, Ralph Grothmann
2021 conf
ICDSST
Ulrike Dowie, Ralph Grothmann
2017 conf
OR
Johannes Hussak, Stefanie Vogl, Ralph Grothmann, Merlind Weber
2016 conf
MKWI
Thomas Setzer, Stefan Nickel, Christof Weinhardt, Ralph Grothmann, Thomas A. Runkler, Ralf Gitzel, Hansjörg Fromm
2012 ch.
Neural Networks: Tricks of the Trade (2nd ed.)
Hans-Georg Zimmermann, Christoph Tietz, Ralph Grothmann
2012 J jnl
Künstliche Intell.
Hans-Georg Zimmermann, Christoph Tietz, Ralph Grothmann, Thomas A. Runkler
2011 conf
OR
Hans-Georg Zimmermann, Ralph Grothmann, Christoph Tietz
2011 J jnl
IEEE Internet Comput.
Emanuele Della Valle, Irene Celino, Daniele Dell'Aglio, Ralph Grothmann, Florian Steinke, Volker Tresp
2010 conf
OR
Hans-Georg Zimmermann, Ralph Grothmann, Christoph Tietz, Holger von Jouanne-Diedrich
2010 J jnl
Künstliche Intell.
Thomas A. Runkler, Ralph Grothmann, Joachim Bamberger
2009 B conf
IJCNN
Hans Georg Seedig, Ralph Grothmann, Thomas A. Runkler
2006 conf
ICANN (2)
Hans-Georg Zimmermann, Lorenzo Bertolini, Ralph Grothmann, Anton Maximilian Schäfer, Christoph Tietz
2005 B conf
IJCNN
Hans-Georg Zimmermann, Ralph Grothmann, Anton Maximilian Schäfer, Christoph Tietz
2005 J jnl
Intell. Syst. Account. Finance Manag.
Hans-Georg Zimmermann, Ralph Grothmann
2003
Ralph Grothmann
2002 C conf
ICANN
Georg Zimmermann, Ralph Grothmann, Christoph Tietz, Ralph Neuneier
2002 B conf
ESANN
Hans-Georg Zimmermann, Ralph Neuneier, Ralph Grothmann
2002 B conf
ESANN
Hans-Georg Zimmermann, Christoph Tietz, Ralph Grothmann
2001 conf
NIPS
Hans-Georg Zimmermann, Ralph Neuneier, Ralph Grothmann
2001 J jnl
Adv. Complex Syst.
Georg Zimmermann, Ralph Neuneier, Ralph Grothmann
2001 C conf
ICANN
Hans-Georg Zimmermann, Ralph Neuneier, Ralph Grothmann
2001 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Neural Networks
Hans-Georg Zimmermann, Ralph Neuneier, Ralph Grothmann
2000 C conf
IDEAL
Hans-Georg Zimmermann, Ralph Neuneier, Ralph Grothmann
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)