Veerendra Dakulagi

17 papers Journal 17
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
Signal Image Video Process.
Veerendra Dakulagi, Astha Sharma, Megharani Patil, Miguel Villagomez-Galindo, Ana Beatriz Martinez-Valencia, Kannan Nova
2025 J jnl
Signal Image Video Process.
Veerendra Dakulagi, Kim Ho Yeap, Anand Khandare
2024 J jnl
J. King Saud Univ. Comput. Inf. Sci.
Der Sheng Tan, Humaira Nisar, Kim Ho Yeap, Veerendra Dakulagi, Muhammad Amin
2023 J jnl
Wirel. Pers. Commun.
Veerendra Dakulagi
2023 J jnl
Wirel. Pers. Commun.
Veerendra Dakulagi, Rohini Dakulagi, Kim Ho Yeap, Humaira Nisar
2023 J jnl
Wirel. Pers. Commun.
R. S. Rekha, M. C. Parameshwara, Veerendra Dakulagi
2022 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Aerosp. Electron. Syst.
Ting Shu, Jin He, Veerendra Dakulagi
2021 J jnl
IEEE Commun. Lett.
Veerendra Dakulagi
2021 J jnl
Wirel. Pers. Commun.
Pavan Mankal, Sanjaykumar C. Gowre, Veerendra Dakulagi
2021 J jnl
Wirel. Pers. Commun.
Mahesh S. Mathpati, Mohammed Bakhar, Veerendra Dakulagi
2021 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Aerosp. Electron. Syst.
Jin He, Ting Shu, Veerendra Dakulagi, Linna Li
2021 J jnl
Wirel. Pers. Commun.
Veerendra Dakulagi
2020 J jnl
Wirel. Pers. Commun.
Veerendra Dakulagi, Mukil Alagirisamy
2020 J jnl
Wirel. Pers. Commun.
Veerendra Dakulagi, Mohammed Bakhar
2020 J jnl
IEEE Access
Shiqiang Wang, Caiyun Gao, Qin Zhang, Veerendra Dakulagi, Huiyong Zeng, Guimei Zheng, Juan Bai, Yuwei Song, Jiliang Cai, Binfeng Zong
2020 J jnl
Wirel. Pers. Commun.
Veerendra Dakulagi
2019 J jnl
Wirel. Pers. Commun.
Veerendra Dakulagi, Mohammed Bakhar
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)