Randy C. Marchany

44 papers B 1Journal 6Unranked 37
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2024 B conf
MobiHoc
Chaoyu Zhang, Shanghao Shi, Ning Wang, Xiangxiang Xu, Shaoyu Li, Lizhong Zheng, Randy C. Marchany, Mark Gardner, Y. Thomas Hou, Wenjing Lou
2023 conf
VehicleSec
Evan Allen, Zeb Bowden, Randy C. Marchany, J. Scot Ransbottom
2018 J jnl
IEEE Wirel. Commun. Lett.
Kimberly Zeitz, Michael Cantrell, Randy C. Marchany, Joseph G. Tront
2018 conf
HICSS
Philip Kobezak, Randy C. Marchany, David R. Raymond, Joseph G. Tront
2018 conf
HICSS
Mark E. DeYoung, Philip Kobezak, David R. Raymond, Randy C. Marchany, Joseph G. Tront
2017 conf
IoTDI
Kimberly Zeitz, Michael Cantrell, Randy C. Marchany, Joseph G. Tront
2017 conf
HOST
Joseph Sagisi, Joseph G. Tront, Randy C. Marchany
2017 conf
MILCOM
Joseph Sagisi, Joseph G. Tront, Randy C. Marchany
2016 conf
MILCOM
Franki Yeung, Peter Cho, Christopher Morrell, Randy C. Marchany, Joseph G. Tront
2016 J jnl
IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag.
Kimberly Zeitz, Randy C. Marchany, Joseph G. Tront
2016 J jnl
J. Electr. Comput. Eng.
Dileep Basam, J. Scot Ransbottom, Randy C. Marchany, Joseph G. Tront
2015 conf
Conf. Computing Frontiers
Dileep Basam, Randy C. Marchany, Joseph G. Tront
2015 conf
MTD@CCS
Christopher Morrell, Reese Moore, Randy C. Marchany, Joseph G. Tront
2015 conf
MILCOM
Reese Moore, Christopher Morrell, Randy C. Marchany, Joseph G. Tront
2014 conf
HICSS
Kimberly Zeitz, Randy C. Marchany, Joseph G. Tront
2014 conf
CISR
Matthew Sherburne, Randy C. Marchany, Joseph G. Tront
2014 conf
ICITST
Christopher Morrell, J. Scot Ransbottom, Randy C. Marchany, Joseph G. Tront
2013 conf
ANCS
Owen Hardman, Stephen Groat, Randy C. Marchany, Joseph G. Tront
2013 conf
CSIIRW
Reese Moore, Stephen Groat, Randy C. Marchany, Joseph G. Tront
2012 conf
SoSE
Stephen Groat, Joseph G. Tront, Randy C. Marchany
2012 conf
IEEE VAST
Yong Cao, Reese Moore, Peng Mi, Alex Endert, Chris North, Randy C. Marchany
2012 conf
NDT (2)
Matthew Dunlop, William Urbanski, Randy C. Marchany, Joseph G. Tront
2012 J jnl
IEEE Secur. Priv.
Matthew Dunlop, Stephen Groat, William Urbanski, Randy C. Marchany, Joseph G. Tront
2012 conf
ISGT
Stephen Groat, Matthew Dunlop, William Urbanski, Randy C. Marchany, Joseph G. Tront
2012 conf
MILCOM
Brittany Clore, Matthew Dunlop, Randy C. Marchany, Joseph G. Tront
2011 conf
Integrated Network Management
William Urbanski, Matthew Dunlop, Randy C. Marchany, Joseph G. Tront
2011 conf
HICSS
Stephen Groat, Matthew Dunlop, Randy C. Marchany, Joseph G. Tront
2011 conf
MILCOM
Matthew Dunlop, Stephen Groat, William Urbanski, Randy C. Marchany, Joseph G. Tront
2011 conf
CNSR
Matthew Dunlop, Stephen Groat, Randy C. Marchany, Joseph G. Tront
2011 conf
WorldCIS
Stephen Groat, Matthew Dunlop, Randy C. Marchany, Joseph G. Tront
2010 conf
CSIIRW
Stephen Groat, Matthew Dunlop, Randy C. Marchany, Joseph G. Tront
2010 conf
COM.Geo
David Shelly, Matthew Dunlop, Randy C. Marchany, Peter Sforza
2009 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol.
David R. Raymond, Randy C. Marchany, Michael I. Brownfield, Scott F. Midkiff
2009 conf
HICSS
Theresa M. Nelson, Timothy Buennemeyer, Randy C. Marchany, Joseph G. Tront
2008 conf
HICSS
Timothy Buennemeyer, Theresa M. Nelson, Lee M. Clagett, John Paul Dunning, Randy C. Marchany, Joseph G. Tront
2007 conf
HICSS
Timothy Buennemeyer, Faiz Munshi, Randy C. Marchany, Joseph G. Tront
2007 conf
HICSS
Joseph G. Tront, Randy C. Marchany
2006 J jnl
IEEE Secur. Priv.
Grant A. Jacoby, Randy C. Marchany, Nathaniel J. Davis IV
2004 conf
HICSS
Joseph G. Tront, Randy C. Marchany
2004 conf
HICSS
Anil Bazaz, James D. Arthur, Randy C. Marchany
2003 conf
HICSS
Joseph G. Tront, Randy C. Marchany
2002 conf
HICSS
Randy C. Marchany, Joseph G. Tront
2002 conf
HICSS
Randy C. Marchany, Joseph G. Tront
1992 conf
ICMC
Randy C. Marchany, Joseph G. Tront
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"