Xiaodong Gong

24 papers C 3Journal 15Unranked 6
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
Geo spatial Inf. Sci.
Gege Huang, Jingbin Liu, Sheng Yang, Xiaodong Gong, Yinzhi Zhao
2025 conf
HCI (46)
Dapeng Wei, Yue Ji, Chi Zhang, Ruojuan Li, Ruiqi Wang, Xiaodong Gong
2025 J jnl
IEEE Internet Things J.
Gege Huang, Jingbin Liu, Yinzhi Zhao, Xiaodong Gong, Juha Hyyppä, Wei Zhang
2024 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol.
Jingbin Liu, Xuanfan Lv, Xiaodong Gong, Yifan Liang, Juha Hyyppä
2023 J jnl
Expert Syst. Appl.
Jingbin Liu, Gege Huang, Juha Hyyppä, Jing Li, Xiaodong Gong, Xiaofan Jiang
2023 J jnl
IEEE Internet Things J.
Xiaodong Gong, Jingbin Liu, Sheng Yang, Fuqiang Gu, Gege Huang, Yu Bai
2023 J jnl
Remote. Sens.
Sen Zhu, Yangmao Wen, Xiaodong Gong, Jingbin Liu
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Lei Kou, Xiaodong Gong, Yi Zheng, Xiu-hui Ni, Yang Li, Quande Yuan, Ya-Nan Dong
2022 C conf
IGARSS
Ning Yu, Ailong Ma, Yanfei Zhong, Xiaodong Gong
2022 C conf
CSCWD
Wei Shen, Lei Kou, Xiaodong Gong, Jie Zhao, Fangfang Zhang, Junhe Wan, Xiangchao Feng, Quande Yuan, Guojie Feng, Benfa Zhang, Jian Zhang
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Lei Kou, Yang Li, Fangfang Zhang, Xiaodong Gong, Yinghong Hu, Quande Yuan, Wende Ke
2022 J jnl
Sensors
Lei Kou, Yang Li, Fangfang Zhang, Xiaodong Gong, Yinghong Hu, Quande Yuan, Wende Ke
2022 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens.
Jue Wang, He Chen, Long Ma, Liang Chen, Xiaodong Gong, Wenchao Liu
2021 J jnl
IEEE Internet Things J.
Sheng Yang, Jingbin Liu, Xiaodong Gong, Gege Huang, Yu Bai
2021 J jnl
Remote. Sens.
Zhenbing Zhang, Jingbin Liu, Lei Wang, Guangyi Guo, Xingyu Zheng, Xiaodong Gong, Sheng Yang, Gege Huang
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Hao Ma, Jingbin Liu, Zhirong Hu, Hongyu Qiu, Dong Xu, Zemin Wang, Xiaodong Gong, Sheng Yang
2020 J jnl
CoRR
Hao Ma, Jingbin Liu, Keke Liu, Hongyu Qiu, Dong Xu, Zemin Wang, Xiaodong Gong, Sheng Yang
2020 C conf
IGARSS
Haoxuan Yuan, Yun Zhang, Xiaodong Gong, Hongbo Li, Muqun Niu
2019 conf
ICCT
Yan Xu, Yi Zheng, Hao Cui, Yifan Hu, Xiaodong Gong, Hui Liu
2018 conf
HCI (19)
Xiaodong Gong, Maoqi Liu
2018 conf
UPINLBS
Xiaodong Gong, Jiwei Hou, Siyu Li, Jianhua Liu, Mingyi Du
2018 conf
HCI (19)
Yue Qiu, Qian Gong, Xiaodong Gong
2015 J jnl
IEEE Geosci. Remote. Sens. Lett.
Ning Li, Robert Wang, Yunkai Deng, Jiaqi Chen, Zhimin Zhang, Yabo Liu, Fengjun Zhao, Xiaodong Gong, Zhihuo Xu
2014 conf
GRMSE
Mingchao Zhang, Renyi Chen, Chao Tang, Yongsheng Li, Ke Li, Zhiying Lun, Lei Yao, Xiaodong Gong
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"