Vess Johnson

33 papers A* 1Journal 30Unranked 1
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
MIS Q. Executive
Vess Johnson, Russell Torres, Hossein Mohit, Sourav Chatterjee, Scott Hamilton, Katia Guerra, Smriti Srivastava, Michael J. Seals
2025 J jnl
MIS Q. Executive
Vess Johnson, Katia Guerra, Russell Torres, Scott Hamilton, Hossein Mohit, Sourav Chatterjee
2025 J jnl
J. Comput. Inf. Syst.
Katia Guerra, Chang E. Koh, Victor R. Prybutok, Vess Johnson
2025 J jnl
MIS Q. Executive
Vess Johnson, Chris Maurer, Russell Torres, Katia Guerra, Hossein Mohit, Smriti Srivastava, Sourav Chatterjee
2024 J jnl
MIS Q. Executive
Vess Johnson, Russell Torres, Chris Maurer, Sourav Chatterjee, Katia Guerra, Hossein Mohit, Smriti Srivastava
2024 J jnl
MIS Q. Executive
Vess Johnson, Chris Maurer, Russell Torres, Katia Guerra, Hossein Mohit, Smriti Srivastava, Sourav Chatterjee
2023 J jnl
MIS Q. Executive
Vess Johnson, Russell Torres, Chris Maurer, Sourav Chatterjee, Katia Guerra, Hossein Mohit, Smriti Srivastava
2023 J jnl
MIS Q. Executive
Vess Johnson, Russell Torres, Chris Maurer, Katia Guerra, Smriti Srivastava, Hossein Mohit
2023 J jnl
J. Comput. Inf. Syst.
Katia Guerra, Chang E. Koh, Victor R. Prybutok, Vess Johnson
2022 J jnl
MIS Q. Executive
Vess Johnson, Russell Torres, Chris Maurer, Smriti Srivastava, Katia Guerra, Hossein Mohit
2021 J jnl
MIS Q. Executive
Leon A. Kappelman, Russell Torres, Ephraim R. McLean, Smriti Srivastava, Vess Johnson, Chris Maurer, Katia Guerra
2021 J jnl
J. Comput. Inf. Syst.
Vess Johnson, Richard W. Woolridge, Joseph R. Bell
2020 J jnl
MIS Q. Executive
Leon A. Kappelman, Russell Torres, Ephraim R. McLean, Katia Guerra, Vess Johnson, Chris Maurer, Kevin Kim, Smriti Srivastava
2020 J jnl
Inf. Manag.
Mary C. Jones, Leon A. Kappelman, Robert Pavur, Quynh N. Nguyen, Vess Johnson
2020 J jnl
J. Comput. Inf. Syst.
Vess Johnson, Angelina I. T. Kiser, Leon A. Kappelman
2019 J jnl
MIS Q. Executive
Leon A. Kappelman, Russell Torres, Ephraim R. McLean, Katia Guerra, Vess Johnson, Chris Maurer, Kevin Kim, Mark Snyder
2019 J jnl
Eur. J. Inf. Syst.
Leon A. Kappelman, Vess Johnson, Russell Torres, Chris Maurer, Ephraim R. McLean
2019 J jnl
MIS Q. Executive
Leon A. Kappelman, Russell Torres, Ephraim R. McLean, Chris Maurer, Vess Johnson, Kevin Kim
2018 J jnl
MIS Q. Executive
Leon A. Kappelman, Ephraim R. McLean, Vess Johnson, Russell Torres, Chris Maurer, Kevin Kim
2018 J jnl
Comput. Hum. Behav.
Vess Johnson, Angelina I. T. Kiser, Ronald Washington, Russell Torres
2018 J jnl
MIS Q. Executive
Leon A. Kappelman, Vess Johnson, Quynh N. Nguyen, Alsius David, Russell Torres, Chris Maurer
2017 J jnl
MIS Q. Executive
Dorothy E. Leidner, Iris A. Junglas, Hope Koch, Arun Sundararajan, Ping Wang, Leon A. Kappelman, Vess Johnson, Quynh N. Nguyen, Alsius David, Ephraim R. McLean, Russell Torres, Chris Maurer
2017 J jnl
MIS Q. Executive
Leon A. Kappelman, Ephraim R. McLean, Vess Johnson, Russell Torres, Quynh N. Nguyen, Chris Maurer, Mark Snyder
2016 J jnl
MIS Q. Executive
Leon A. Kappelman, Vess Johnson, Chris Maurer, Ephraim R. McLean, Russell Torres, Quynh N. Nguyen
2016 J jnl
Commun. ACM
Leon A. Kappelman, Mary C. Jones, Vess Johnson, Ephraim R. McLean
2016 J jnl
MIS Q. Executive
Leon A. Kappelman, Ephraim R. McLean, Vess Johnson, Russell Torres
2016 J jnl
Int. J. Digit. Lit. Digit. Competence
Vess Johnson, Sherry D. Ryan, Angelina I. T. Kiser
2014 J jnl
MIS Q. Executive
Leon A. Kappelman, Ephraim R. McLean, Vess Johnson, Natalie Gerhart
2014 J jnl
J. Comput. Inf. Syst.
Russell Torres, Vess Johnson, Benjamin Imhonde
2013 book
Anna Sidorova, Nicholas E. Evangelopoulos, Russell Torres, Vess Johnson
2013 J jnl
MIS Q. Executive
Leon A. Kappelman, Ephraim R. McLean, Jerry N. Luftman, Vess Johnson
2012 conf
AMCIS
Vess Johnson
2005 A* conf
DAC
Tim Fox, Lou Covey, Susan Mack, David Heacock, Ed P. Huijbregts, Vess Johnson, Avner Kornfeld, Andrew Yang, Paul S. Zuchowski
redb/extractors/js_extractors/js_xray.py
← Index redb/extractors/js_extractors/js_xray.py python
"""Subprocess wrapper for the bundled js-x-ray Node bridge.

Mirrors `js_deobfuscator.py`: shell out to a Node script with a per-sample
timeout, kill the process group on hang, demote `FileNotFoundError` to debug
(missing tool is routine — the host either has Node + the bundled package
installed or it doesn't), and return a structured result on success.

The bridge lives at `redb/extractors/js_extractors/scripts/js-xray-runner.js`.
Operators install the JS dependency once with `npm install` in that directory
(or override the path with `JS_XRAY_RUNNER_PATH`).

Configuration (env vars):
    JS_XRAY_RUNNER_PATH   Path to the Node bridge script (default: bundled).
    JS_XRAY_TIMEOUT       Seconds before the subprocess is killed. Default: 30.

`run(source, log)` returns `XRayResult(obfuscator, warnings)` on a successful
analysis, or `XRayResult(None, [])` for any non-success path (binary missing,
timeout, parse failure, etc.). The two unsuccessful states are
indistinguishable to the caller on purpose — they all collapse to "no
js-x-ray verdict, fall back to heuristic".
"""

from __future__ import annotations

import json
import os
import signal
import subprocess
import tempfile
from dataclasses import dataclass, field
from typing import List, Optional

# Bundled bridge: redb/extractors/js_extractors/scripts/js-xray-runner.js
_DEFAULT_RUNNER = os.path.join(
    os.path.dirname(__file__), "scripts", "js-xray-runner.js"
)
_DEFAULT_NODE = "node"
_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_SECS = 30


@dataclass
class XRayResult:
    """Parsed js-x-ray output. `obfuscator` is the recognised family name
    (e.g. "jsfuck", "obfuscator.io") or None when js-x-ray did not flag the
    code. `warnings` carries every {kind, value} pair the analyser produced;
    the heuristic uses it as a corroborating signal. `avg_identifier_length`
    is js-x-ray's own AST-derived figure — used as a fallback for the
    heuristic's `avg_identifier_length<2` strong signal when pyjsparser
    can't parse the source (anything ES2015+ trips it)."""

    obfuscator: Optional[str] = None
    warnings: List[dict] = field(default_factory=list)
    avg_identifier_length: Optional[float] = None

    @property
    def flagged(self) -> bool:
        return self.obfuscator is not None


def _empty() -> XRayResult:
    return XRayResult(obfuscator=None, warnings=[])


def run(source: str, log) -> XRayResult:
    if not source:
        return _empty()

    runner = os.getenv("JS_XRAY_RUNNER_PATH", _DEFAULT_RUNNER)
    node_bin = os.getenv("JS_XRAY_NODE_BIN", _DEFAULT_NODE)
    timeout = int(os.getenv("JS_XRAY_TIMEOUT", str(_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_SECS)))

    if not os.path.exists(runner):
        log.debug(f"js-x-ray runner not found at {runner}")
        return _empty()

    # Skip the subprocess entirely when the JS dependency isn't installed.
    # Without this, every call to a host that has `node` but never ran
    # `npm install` next to the runner would still fork node, get a require
    # error, and exit nonzero — wasted ~50–200ms per JS sample (and per test).
    runner_dir = os.path.dirname(runner)
    if not os.path.isdir(os.path.join(runner_dir, "node_modules", "@nodesecure", "js-x-ray")):
        log.debug(f"@nodesecure/js-x-ray not installed in {runner_dir}")
        return _empty()

    tmp_path = None
    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(
                [node_bin, runner, tmp_path],
                stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
                preexec_fn=os.setsid,
            )
            try:
                stdout, stderr = process.communicate(timeout=timeout)
            except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
                # Kill the whole process group so any node helpers die 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"js-x-ray timed out after {timeout}s")
                return _empty()

            if process.returncode != 0:
                err = stderr.decode("utf-8", errors="replace").strip()
                log.debug(f"js-x-ray exited {process.returncode}: {err}")
                return _empty()

            text = stdout.decode("utf-8", errors="replace").strip()
            if not text:
                return _empty()

            try:
                payload = json.loads(text)
            except json.JSONDecodeError as e:
                log.warning(f"js-x-ray emitted non-JSON output: {e}")
                return _empty()

            obfuscator = payload.get("obfuscator")
            warnings = payload.get("warnings") or []
            if not isinstance(warnings, list):
                warnings = []

            ids_avg = payload.get("idsLengthAvg")
            if not isinstance(ids_avg, (int, float)):
                ids_avg = None

            return XRayResult(
                obfuscator=obfuscator,
                warnings=warnings,
                avg_identifier_length=ids_avg,
            )
        finally:
            if tmp_path:
                try:
                    os.unlink(tmp_path)
                except Exception:
                    pass
    except FileNotFoundError:
        log.debug(f"node binary not found at {node_bin}")
        return _empty()
    except Exception as e:
        log.error(f"js-x-ray subprocess error: {e}")
        return _empty()