Ran Ben Basat

64 papers A* 9A 4B 5Misc 5Journal 33Unranked 7
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Wenchen Han, Shay Vargaftik, Michael Mitzenmacher, Ran Ben Basat
2025 J jnl
Proc. ACM Meas. Anal. Comput. Syst.
Ran Ben Basat, Yaniv Ben-Itzhak, Michael Mitzenmacher, Shay Vargaftik
2025 B conf
SPAA
Ran Ben Basat, Keren Censor-Hillel, Yi-Jun Chang, Wenchen Han, Dean Leitersdorf, Gregory Schwartzman
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Ran Ben Basat, Keren Censor-Hillel, Yi-Jun Chang, Wenchen Han, Dean Leitersdorf, Gregory Schwartzman
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Ran Ben Basat, Gil Einziger, Bilal Tyah, Shay Vargaftik
2025 Misc conf
NSDI
Yinda Zhang, Liangcheng Yu, Gianni Antichi, Ran Ben Basat, Vincent Liu
2025 A* conf
SIGCOMM
Zeyu Zhang, Haiying Shen, Shay Vargaftik, Ran Ben Basat, Michael Mitzenmacher, Minlan Yu
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Zeyu Zhang, Haiying Shen, Shay Vargaftik, Ran Ben Basat, Michael Mitzenmacher, Minlan Yu
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Jonatan Langlet, Peiqing Chen, Michael Mitzenmacher, Ran Ben Basat, Zaoxing Liu, Gianni Antichi
2024 J jnl
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw.
Jiaqian Liu, Haipeng Dai, Rui Xia, Meng Li, Ran Ben Basat, Rui Li, Rong Gu, Jiaqi Zheng, Guihai Chen
2024 Misc conf
HotNets
Wenchen Han, Shay Vargaftik, Michael Mitzenmacher, Brad Karp, Ran Ben Basat
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Wenchen Han, Shay Vargaftik, Michael Mitzenmacher, Brad Karp, Ran Ben Basat
2024 A* conf
ICDE
Jiaqian Liu, Ran Ben Basat, Louis De Wardt, Haipeng Dai, Guihai Chen
2024 J jnl
PACMNET
Weiqi Feng, Jiaqi Gao, Xiaoqi Chen, Gianni Antichi, Ran Ben Basat, Michael Mingchao Shao, Ying Zhang, Minlan Yu
2024 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Netw. Sci. Eng.
He Huang, Shigang Chen, Ran Ben Basat, Haipeng Dai, Amirhosein Taherkordi, Jun Xu
2024 J jnl
Proc. ACM Netw.
Ran Ben Basat, Gil Einziger, Wenchen Han, Bilal Tayh
2024 Misc conf
NSDI
Minghao Li, Ran Ben Basat, Shay Vargaftik, ChonLam Lao, Kevin Xu, Michael Mitzenmacher, Minlan Yu
2024 Misc conf
HotNets
Xiaoqi Chen, Shay Vargaftik, Ran Ben Basat
2023 conf
USENIX ATC
Rong Gu, Simian Li, Haipeng Dai, Hancheng Wang, Yili Luo, Bin Fan, Ran Ben Basat, Ke Wang, Zhenyu Song, Shouwei Chen, Beinan Wang, Yihua Huang, Guihai Chen
2023 A* conf
SIGCOMM
Jonatan Langlet, Ran Ben Basat, Gabriele Oliaro, Michael Mitzenmacher, Minlan Yu, Gianni Antichi
2023 J jnl
Comput. Commun. Rev.
Sebastiano Miano, Xiaoqi Chen, Ran Ben Basat, Gianni Antichi
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Minghao Li, Ran Ben Basat, Shay Vargaftik, ChonLam Lao, Kevin Xu, Xinran Tang, Michael Mitzenmacher, Minlan Yu
2023 J jnl
Proc. ACM Manag. Data
Rana Shahout, Roy Friedman, Ran Ben Basat
2022 A* conf
WWW
Jiaqian Liu, Haipeng Dai, Rui Xia, Meng Li, Ran Ben Basat, Rui Li, Guihai Chen
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Jonatan Langlet, Ran Ben Basat, Sivaramakrishnan Ramanathan, Gabriele Oliaro, Michael Mitzenmacher, Minlan Yu, Gianni Antichi
2022 A* conf
ICML
Shay Vargaftik, Ran Ben Basat, Amit Portnoy, Gal Mendelson, Yaniv Ben-Itzhak, Michael Mitzenmacher
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Antonis Manousis, Zhuo Cheng, Ran Ben Basat, Zaoxing Liu, Vyas Sekar
2022 J jnl
Proc. VLDB Endow.
Antonis Manousis, Zhuo Cheng, Ran Ben Basat, Zaoxing Liu, Vyas Sekar
2022 J jnl
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw.
Ran Ben Basat, Gil Einziger, Isaac Keslassy, Ariel Orda, Shay Vargaftik, Erez Waisbard
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Ran Ben Basat, Shay Vargaftik, Amit Portnoy, Gil Einziger, Yaniv Ben-Itzhak, Michael Mitzenmacher
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Rana Shahout, Roy Friedman, Ran Ben Basat
2022 Misc conf
SYSTOR
Rana Shahout, Roy Friedman, Ran Ben Basat
2021 J jnl
Theor. Comput. Sci.
Ran Ben Basat, Seungbum Jo, Srinivasa Rao Satti, Shubham Ugare
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Shay Vargaftik, Ran Ben Basat, Amit Portnoy, Gal Mendelson, Yaniv Ben-Itzhak, Michael Mitzenmacher
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Shay Vargaftik, Ran Ben Basat, Amit Portnoy, Gal Mendelson, Yaniv Ben-Itzhak, Michael Mitzenmacher
2021 A* conf
ICALP
Ran Ben Basat, Michael Mitzenmacher, Shay Vargaftik
2021 A* conf
ICDE
Ran Ben Basat, Gil Einziger, Michael Mitzenmacher, Shay Vargaftik
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Ran Ben Basat, Gil Einziger, Michael Mitzenmacher, Shay Vargaftik
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Jonatan Langlet, Ran Ben Basat, Sivaramakrishnan Ramanathan, Gabriele Oliaro, Michael Mitzenmacher, Minlan Yu, Gianni Antichi
2020 A conf
CoNEXT
Ran Ben Basat, Gil Einziger, Bilal Tayh
2020 conf
SIGMOD Conference
Muhammad Tirmazi, Ran Ben Basat, Jiaqi Gao, Minlan Yu
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Muhammad Tirmazi, Ran Ben Basat, Jiaqi Gao, Minlan Yu
2020 B conf
ICNP
Ran Ben Basat, Gil Einziger, Bilal Tayh
2020 B conf
Networking
Ran Ben Basat, Gil Einziger, Maayan Goldstein, Liat Pele, Itai Segall
2020 A conf
CoNEXT
Valerio Bruschi, Ran Ben Basat, Zaoxing Liu, Gianni Antichi, Giuseppe Bianchi, Michael Mitzenmacher
2020 J jnl
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw.
Ran Ben Basat, Xiaoqi Chen, Gil Einziger, Ori Rottenstreich
2020 A conf
CoNEXT
Jan Kucera, Ran Ben Basat, Mário Kuka, Gianni Antichi, Minlan Yu, Michael Mitzenmacher
2020 A* conf
INFOCOM
Ran Ben Basat, Gil Einziger, Michael Mitzenmacher, Shay Vargaftik
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Ran Ben Basat, Gil Einziger, Michael Mitzenmacher, Shay Vargaftik
2020 conf
SIGMETRICS (Abstracts)
Nikita Ivkin, Ran Ben Basat, Zaoxing Liu, Gil Einziger, Roy Friedman, Vladimir Braverman
2020 conf
APOCS
Ran Ben Basat, Maayan Goldstein, Itai Segall
2020 conf
INFOCOM Workshops
Ran Ben Basat, Gil Einziger, Bilal Tayh
2020 A* conf
SIGCOMM
Ran Ben Basat, Sivaramakrishnan Ramanathan, Yuliang Li, Gianni Antichi, Minlan Yu, Michael Mitzenmacher
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Ran Ben Basat, Sivaramakrishnan Ramanathan, Yuliang Li, Gianni Antichi, Minlan Yu, Michael Mitzenmacher
2020 B conf
Networking
Ran Ben Basat, Xiaoqi Chen, Gil Einziger, Shir Landau Feibish, Danny Raz, Minlan Yu
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Ran Ben Basat, Xiaoqi Chen, Gil Einziger, Shir Landau Feibish, Danny Raz, Minlan Yu
2019 B conf
Networking
Ran Ben Basat, Gil Einziger, Marcelo Caggiani Luizelli, Erez Waisbard
2019 conf
SIGCOMM Posters and Demos
Nikita Ivkin, Ran Ben Basat, Zaoxing Liu, Gil Einziger, Roy Friedman, Vladimir Braverman
2019 J jnl
Theor. Comput. Sci.
Ran Ben Basat, Gil Einziger, Roy Friedman
2019 J jnl
Proc. ACM Meas. Anal. Comput. Syst.
Nikita Ivkin, Ran Ben Basat, Zaoxing Liu, Gil Einziger, Roy Friedman, Vladimir Braverman
2019 J jnl
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw.
Ran Ben Basat, Xiaoqi Chen, Gil Einziger, Roy Friedman, Yaron Kassner
2019 A conf
Internet Measurement Conference
Ran Ben Basat, Gil Einziger, Junzhi Gong, Jalil Moraney, Danny Raz
2019 conf
INFOCOM Workshops
Ran Ben Basat, Gil Einziger, Jalil Moraney, Danny Raz
2018
Ran Ben Basat
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"