Vasilis Ververis

13 papers B 3Journal 5Unranked 4
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 B conf
PAM
Philipp Bielefeld, Felix Hoffmann, Steffen Sassalla, Vasilis Ververis, Vaibhav Bajpai
2025 B conf
Networking
Steffen Sassalla, Vasilis Ververis, Vaibhav Bajpai
2025 B conf
Networking
Robert Alexander Uwe Richter, Vasilis Ververis, Vaibhav Bajpai
2025 J jnl
Proc. Priv. Enhancing Technol.
Vasilis Ververis, Steffen Sassala, Felix Roth, Vaibhav Bajpai
2023
Vasilis Ververis
2021 conf
WebSci
Vasilis Ververis, Tatiana Ermakova, Marios Isaakidis, Simone Basso, Benjamin Fabian, Stefania Milan
2020 J jnl
Digit. Investig.
Hee-Eun Lee, Tatiana Ermakova, Vasilis Ververis, Benjamin Fabian
2019 conf
UMAP (Adjunct Publication)
Vasilis Ververis, Marios Isaakidis, Valentin Weber, Benjamin Fabian
2018 J jnl
XRDS
Vasilis Ververis
2018 J jnl
XRDS
Vasilis Ververis, Gunnar E. Wolf
2017 conf
ICC
Benjamin Fabian, Annika Baumann, Mathias Ehlert, Vasilis Ververis, Tatiana Ermakova
2017 conf
e-Democracy
Vasilis Ververis, Marios Isaakidis, Chrystalleni Loizidou, Benjamin Fabian
2016 J jnl
CoRR
Abbas Razaghpanah, Anke Li, Arturo Filastò, Rishab Nithyanand, Vasilis Ververis, Will Scott, Phillipa Gill
redb/extractors/js_extractors/js_suspicious_apis.py
← Index redb/extractors/js_extractors/js_suspicious_apis.py python
import inspect
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 CATEGORIES, PATTERNS


# Backwards-compatible export: `{category: [(raw_pattern_string, api_name), ...]}`
# in canonical PATTERNS insertion order (code_execution, network, filesystem,
# process, registry, crypto_encoding, dom_manipulation). Kept so external
# callers (notably JSDeobfuscationExtractor pre-cleanup) keep working until
# they are migrated to PATTERNS directly.
SUSPICIOUS_APIS: "dict[str, list[tuple[str, str]]]" = {}
for _name, _compiled in PATTERNS.items():
    SUSPICIOUS_APIS.setdefault(CATEGORIES[_name], []).append((_compiled.pattern, _name))


class JSSuspiciousAPIsExtractor(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.api_findings = None
        self.log.debug(inspect.currentframe().f_code.co_name)

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

    def _get_context_snippet(self, line, max_len=200):
        """Get a truncated context snippet around a match."""
        line = line.strip()
        if len(line) > max_len:
            return line[:max_len] + "..."
        return line

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

        # Pass 1: shared per-sample scan over the raw source. The dict contains
        # entries for both PATTERNS and FEATURE_PATTERNS; the loop below only
        # consults PATTERNS keys, so feature-only entries are ignored.
        raw_scan = self._context.scan or {}
        raw_lines = self.lines

        # Pass 2: same patterns over the deobfuscated text, when the
        # deobfuscator produced something meaningfully different. APIs hidden
        # behind one obfuscation layer (Vjw0rm-style array.join + eval,
        # Dean-Edwards packers, jjencode, ...) only surface here. The scan is
        # cached on JSContext so JSDeobfuscationExtractor (which computes the
        # new_apis_found diff) reuses the same result.
        deobf_scan = self._context.scan_deobfuscated
        if deobf_scan:
            deobf_text, _ = self._context.deobfuscated
            deobf_lines = deobf_text.splitlines()
        else:
            deobf_lines = []

        findings = []
        # Iterate PATTERNS in canonical order so output is deterministic and
        # matches the historical category/pattern ordering. For each api_name,
        # raw findings take precedence; if an API is found only in the
        # deobfuscated text, we surface it as a row tagged revealed_by_deobf=1
        # with line numbers / snippets pulled from the deobfuscated source.
        for api_name in PATTERNS:
            raw_info = raw_scan.get(api_name)
            if raw_info:
                line_numbers = raw_info["lines"]
                lines_for_snippets = raw_lines
                revealed_by_deobf = 0
            else:
                deobf_info = deobf_scan.get(api_name)
                if not deobf_info:
                    continue
                line_numbers = deobf_info["lines"]
                lines_for_snippets = deobf_lines
                revealed_by_deobf = 1

            snippets = [
                self._get_context_snippet(lines_for_snippets[ln - 1])
                for ln in line_numbers[:3]
                if 0 < ln <= len(lines_for_snippets)
            ]
            findings.append({
                "api_name": api_name,
                "api_category": CATEGORIES[api_name],
                # Historical semantics: count = number of unique lines with a
                # match, not total in-source match count.
                "call_count": len(line_numbers),
                "line_numbers": line_numbers,
                "context_snippet": " | ".join(snippets),
                "revealed_by_deobf": revealed_by_deobf,
            })

        if not findings:
            return None

        self.api_findings = findings
        return findings

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

            current_time = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
            data = []
            for f in self.api_findings:
                data.append([
                    self.sha256,
                    f['api_name'],
                    f['api_category'],
                    f['call_count'],
                    f['line_numbers'],
                    f['context_snippet'],
                    f['revealed_by_deobf'],
                    current_time,
                ])

            column_names = [
                "sha256", "api_name", "api_category",
                "call_count", "line_numbers", "context_snippet",
                "revealed_by_deobf",
                "analysis_date",
            ]

            column_type_names = [
                "FixedString(64)", "String", "LowCardinality(String)",
                "UInt32", "Array(UInt32)", "String",
                "UInt8",
                "DateTime64(3, 'UTC')",
            ]

            return (data, column_names, column_type_names)

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