W. Sabrina Lin

42 papers B 6C 2Misc 10Journal 17Unranked 7
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2016 B conf
ASONAM
James Schaffer, Brandon Huynh, John O'Donovan, Tobias Höllerer, Yinglong Xia, W. Sabrina Lin
2016 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph.
Nan Cao, Conglei Shi, W. Sabrina Lin, Jie Lu, Yu-Ru Lin, Ching-Yung Lin
2016 J jnl
IBM J. Res. Dev.
Anni Coden, W. Sabrina Lin, Keith Houck, Michael A. Tanenblatt, Jeff Boston, Julie MacNaught, Danny Soroker, Justin D. Weisz, Shimei Pan, Jui-Hsin Lai, Jie Lu, Steve Wood, Yinglong Xia, Ching-Yung Lin
2015 C conf
ISM
Chun-Fu (Richard) Chen, Gwo Giun Chris Lee, Yinglong Xia, W. Sabrina Lin, Toyotaro Suzumura, Ching-Yung Lin
2015 conf
WCSP
Yi-Chi Shao, Meng-Hsi Chen, Shih-Chun Lin, W. Sabrina Lin
2014 C conf
ISM
Joseph G. Ellis, W. Sabrina Lin, Ching-Yung Lin, Shih-Fu Chang
2013 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun.
Yu-Han Yang, Beibei Wang, W. Sabrina Lin, K. J. Ray Liu
2012 conf
ICC
Yan Chen, W. Sabrina Lin, Feng Han, Yu-Han Yang, Zoltan Safar, K. J. Ray Liu
2012 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Multim.
H. Vicky Zhao, W. Sabrina Lin, K. J. Ray Liu
2012 conf
ICC
Feng Han, Zoltan Safar, W. Sabrina Lin, Yan Chen, K. J. Ray Liu
2012 Misc conf
ICASSP
Xiaoyu Chu, Matthew C. Stamm, W. Sabrina Lin, K. J. Ray Liu
2012 Misc conf
ICASSP
Matthew C. Stamm, W. Sabrina Lin, K. J. Ray Liu
2012 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Image Process.
W. Sabrina Lin, K. J. Ray Liu
2012 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur.
Liang Xiao, Yan Chen, W. Sabrina Lin, K. J. Ray Liu
2012 conf
ICC
Liang Xiao, W. Sabrina Lin, Yan Chen, Kuo J. Ray Liu
2012 Misc conf
ICASSP
W. Sabrina Lin, Yang Gao, K. J. Ray Liu
2012 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur.
Matthew C. Stamm, W. Sabrina Lin, K. J. Ray Liu
2011 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun.
Nate Goergen, W. Sabrina Lin, K. J. Ray Liu, T. Charles Clancy
2011 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun.
Nate Goergen, W. Sabrina Lin, K. J. Ray Liu, T. Charles Clancy
2011 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur.
Nate Goergen, W. Sabrina Lin, K. J. Ray Liu, T. Charles Clancy
2011 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Multim.
W. Sabrina Lin, H. Vicky Zhao, K. J. Ray Liu
2010 Misc conf
ICASSP
Matthew C. Stamm, Steven K. Tjoa, W. Sabrina Lin, K. J. Ray Liu
2010 B conf
GLOBECOM
W. Sabrina Lin, H. Vicky Zhao, K. J. Ray Liu
2010 B conf
GLOBECOM
Nate Goergen, W. Sabrina Lin, K. J. Ray Liu, T. Charles Clancy
2010 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Image Process.
W. Sabrina Lin, H. Vicky Zhao, K. J. Ray Liu
2010 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol.
Yan Chen, Beibei Wang, W. Sabrina Lin, Yongle Wu, K. J. Ray Liu
2010 B conf
ICIP
Yan Chen, Beibei Wang, W. Sabrina Lin, Yongle Wu, K. J. Ray Liu
2010 Misc conf
ICASSP
Steven K. Tjoa, Matthew C. Stamm, W. Sabrina Lin, K. J. Ray Liu
2010 B conf
GLOBECOM
W. Sabrina Lin, K. J. Ray Liu
2010 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Image Process.
Yan Chen, W. Sabrina Lin, K. J. Ray Liu
2010 B conf
ICIP
Matthew C. Stamm, Steven K. Tjoa, W. Sabrina Lin, K. J. Ray Liu
2009 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur.
W. Sabrina Lin, H. Vicky Zhao, K. J. Ray Liu
2009 J jnl
IEEE Signal Process. Mag.
H. Vicky Zhao, W. Sabrina Lin, K. J. Ray Liu
2009 conf
Media Forensics and Security
W. Sabrina Lin, Shan He, Jeffrey Bloom
2009 Misc conf
ICASSP
W. Sabrina Lin, H. Vicky Zhao, K. J. Ray Liu
2009 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur.
W. Sabrina Lin, Steven K. Tjoa, H. Vicky Zhao, K. J. Ray Liu
2009 conf
MM&Sec
W. Sabrina Lin, Shan He, Jeffrey Bloom
2009 Misc conf
ICASSP
Yan Chen, W. Sabrina Lin, K. J. Ray Liu
2009 Misc conf
ICASSP
W. Sabrina Lin, H. Vicky Zhao, K. J. Ray Liu
2008 Misc conf
ICASSP
W. Sabrina Lin, H. Vicky Zhao, K. J. Ray Liu
2008 conf
ACSCC
W. Sabrina Lin, H. Vicky Zhao, K. J. Ray Liu
2008 Misc conf
ICASSP
W. Sabrina Lin, K. J. Ray Liu
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"