Vincenzo Nicosia

65 papers A* 1A 1B 1C 4Misc 1Journal 45Unranked 11
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Matthew Russell Barnes, Vincenzo Nicosia, Richard G. Clegg
2023 J jnl
PLoS Comput. Biol.
Magnus J. Haughey, Aleix Bassolas, Sandro Sousa, Ann-Marie Baker, Trevor A. Graham, Vincenzo Nicosia, Weini Huang
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Matthew Russell Barnes, Vincenzo Nicosia, Richard G. Clegg
2021 conf
DLfM
Jeff Miller, Vincenzo Nicosia, Mark Sandler
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Aleix Bassolas, Anton Eriksson, Antoine Marot, Martin Rosvall, Vincenzo Nicosia
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Aleix Bassolas, Andrea Santoro, Sandro Sousa, Silvia Rognone, Vincenzo Nicosia
2020 J jnl
J. Complex Networks
Sudarshan Kumar, Tiziana di Matteo, Anindya S. Chakrabarti, Vincenzo Nicosia
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Andrea Santoro, Vincenzo Nicosia
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Delia Fano Yela, Florian Thalmann, Vincenzo Nicosia, Dan Stowell, Mark B. Sandler
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Andrea Santoro, Vincenzo Nicosia
2017 J jnl
Complex.
Nicolò Musmeci, Vincenzo Nicosia, Tomaso Aste, Tiziana di Matteo, Vito Latora
2016 J jnl
EPJ Data Sci.
Valerio Ciotti, Moreno Bonaventura, Vincenzo Nicosia, Pietro Panzarasa, Vito Latora
2016 J jnl
CoRR
Federico Battiston, Vincenzo Nicosia, Vito Latora, Maxi San Miguel
2016 J jnl
CoRR
Nicolò Musmeci, Vincenzo Nicosia, Tomaso Aste, Tiziana di Matteo, Vito Latora
2016 J jnl
CoRR
Federico Battiston, Vincenzo Nicosia, Vito Latora
2015 J jnl
CoRR
Federico Battiston, Vincenzo Nicosia, Vito Latora
2015 J jnl
CoRR
Federico Battiston, Jacopo Iacovacci, Vincenzo Nicosia, Ginestra Bianconi, Vito Latora
2015 J jnl
CoRR
Valerio Ciotti, Moreno Bonaventura, Vincenzo Nicosia, Pietro Panzarasa, Vito Latora
2015 J jnl
CoRR
Federico Battiston, Andrea Cairoli, Vincenzo Nicosia, Adrian Baule, Vito Latora
2015 J jnl
CoRR
Marina Diakonova, Vincenzo Nicosia, Vito Latora, Maxi San Miguel
2014 J jnl
Comput. Aided Civ. Infrastructure Eng.
Massimo Cavallaro, Domenico Asprone, Vito Latora, Gaetano Manfredi, Vincenzo Nicosia
2014 J jnl
CoRR
A. Fiasconaro, Michele Tumminello, Vincenzo Nicosia, Vito Latora, Rosario N. Mantegna
2014 J jnl
CoRR
Manlio De Domenico, Vincenzo Nicosia, Alex Arenas, Vito Latora
2014 J jnl
CoRR
Vincenzo Nicosia, Vito Latora
2013 J jnl
CoRR
John Kit Tang, Ilias Leontiadis, Salvatore Scellato, Vincenzo Nicosia, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musolesi, Vito Latora
2013 J jnl
CoRR
Vincenzo Nicosia, Manlio De Domenico, Vito Latora
2013 J jnl
CoRR
Moreno Bonaventura, Vincenzo Nicosia, Vito Latora
2013 J jnl
CoRR
Alessio Cardillo, Giovanni Petri, Vincenzo Nicosia, Roberta Sinatra, Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes, Vito Latora
2013 J jnl
CoRR
Dmytro Karamshuk, Anastasios Noulas, Salvatore Scellato, Vincenzo Nicosia, Cecilia Mascolo
2013 A* conf
KDD
Dmytro Karamshuk, Anastasios Noulas, Salvatore Scellato, Vincenzo Nicosia, Cecilia Mascolo
2013 J jnl
CoRR
Vincenzo Nicosia, John Kit Tang, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musolesi, Giovanni Russo, Vito Latora
2013 J jnl
CoRR
Vincenzo Nicosia, Ginestra Bianconi, Vito Latora, Marc Barthelemy
2013 J jnl
CoRR
Federico Battiston, Vincenzo Nicosia, Vito Latora
2013 J jnl
CoRR
Vincenzo Nicosia, Ginestra Bianconi, Vito Latora, Marc Barthelemy
2013 J jnl
CoRR
Fabrizio de Vico Fallani, Vincenzo Nicosia, Vito Latora, Mario Chavez
2013 J jnl
CoRR
Chloë Brown, Vincenzo Nicosia, Salvatore Scellato, Anastasios Noulas, Cecilia Mascolo
2012 J jnl
CoRR
Vito Latora, Vincenzo Nicosia, Pietro Panzarasa
2012 conf
WOSN
Chloë Brown, Vincenzo Nicosia, Salvatore Scellato, Anastasios Noulas, Cecilia Mascolo
2012 A conf
ICWSM
Chloë Brown, Vincenzo Nicosia, Salvatore Scellato, Anastasios Noulas, Cecilia Mascolo
2011 J jnl
CoRR
Vincenzo Nicosia, John Kit Tang, Mirco Musolesi, Giovanni Russo, Cecilia Mascolo, Vito Latora
2011 J jnl
CoRR
Vincenzo Nicosia, Regino Criado, Miguel Romance, Giovanni Russo, Vito Latora
2011 J jnl
CoRR
Fabrizio de Vico Fallani, Vincenzo Nicosia, Roberta Sinatra, Laura Astolfi, Febo Cincotti, Donatella Mattia, Christopher T. Wilke, A. Doud, Vito Latora, Bin He, Fabio Babiloni
2010 conf
WOA
Loris Fichera, Daniele Marletta, Vincenzo Nicosia, Corrado Santoro
2010 J jnl
J. Parallel Distributed Comput.
Vincenza Carchiolo, Michele Malgeri, Giuseppe Mangioni, Vincenzo Nicosia
2010 conf
SNS
John Kit Tang, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo, Vito Latora, Vincenzo Nicosia
2010 conf
Eurobot Conference
Loris Fichera, Daniele Marletta, Vincenzo Nicosia, Corrado Santoro
2009 ed.
CompleNet
Santo Fortunato, Giuseppe Mangioni, Ronaldo Menezes, Vincenzo Nicosia
2008 C conf
IEA/AIE
Vincenza Carchiolo, Alessandro Longheu, Giuseppe Mangioni, Vincenzo Nicosia
2008 J jnl
Comput. Commun.
Vincenza Carchiolo, Michele Malgeri, Giuseppe Mangioni, Vincenzo Nicosia
2008 J jnl
Scalable Comput. Pract. Exp.
Vincenza Carchiolo, Alessandro Longheu, Michele Malgeri, Giuseppe Mangioni, Vincenzo Nicosia
2007 B conf
WISE
Vincenza Carchiolo, Alessandro Longheu, Michele Malgeri, Giuseppe Mangioni, Vincenzo Nicosia
2007 Misc conf
IDC
Vincenza Carchiolo, Alessandro Longheu, Michele Malgeri, Giuseppe Mangioni, Vincenzo Nicosia
2007 J jnl
CoRR
Vincenzo Nicosia, Giuseppe Mangioni, Vincenza Carchiolo, Michele Malgeri
2007 J jnl
CoRR
Vincenzo Nicosia, Giuseppe Mangioni, Vincenza Carchiolo, Michele Malgeri
2007 J jnl
J. Comput.
Vincenza Carchiolo, Michele Malgeri, Giuseppe Mangioni, Vincenzo Nicosia
2007 J jnl
CoRR
Vincenza Carchiolo, Michele Malgeri, Giuseppe Mangioni, Vincenzo Nicosia
2007 C conf
WETICE
Marco Fargetta, Vincenzo Nicosia
2007 conf
Erlang Workshop
Vincenzo Nicosia
2006 conf
DBISP2P
Vincenza Carchiolo, Michele Malgeri, Giuseppe Mangioni, Vincenzo Nicosia
2006 C conf
ISPA
Vincenza Carchiolo, Michele Malgeri, Giuseppe Mangioni, Vincenzo Nicosia
2006 conf
ISCIS
Vincenza Carchiolo, Michele Malgeri, Giuseppe Mangioni, Vincenzo Nicosia
2006 conf
AP2PC
Vincenza Carchiolo, Michele Malgeri, Giuseppe Mangioni, Vincenzo Nicosia
2006 conf
SelfMan
Vincenza Carchiolo, Michele Malgeri, Giuseppe Mangioni, Vincenzo Nicosia
2006 C conf
WETICE
Vincenza Carchiolo, Michele Malgeri, Giuseppe Mangioni, Vincenzo Nicosia
2006 conf
WOA
Vincenzo Nicosia, Concetto Spampinato, Corrado Santoro
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"