confusion
v0.1.1
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Simple obfuscator for JavaScript source code
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confusion
Sometimes, we need that little bit of “security through obscurity” and want to obfuscate our source code.
confusion makes it harder to decipher your code by replacing string literals and property accesses with lookups into a string map.
Example
This code snippet:
a.property(called.with('a string literal'));
an.other("call", "is", "here");
will be converted to
(function(_x24139) {
a[_x24139[0]](called[_x24139[1]](_x24139[2]));
an[_x24139[3]](_x24139[4], _x24139[5], _x24139[6]);
}).call(
this,
["property", "with", "a string literal", "other", "call", "is", "here"]
);
Pipe it through closure compiler and you’ll get:
(function(b){a[b[0]](called[b[1]](b[2]));an[b[3]](b[4],b[5],b[6])}).call(
this,"property;with;a string literal;other;call;is;here".split(";"));
If your code declares any top level variables, it won’t be wrapped in a IIFE. The string map will simply be prepended, in order to maintain program semantics:
'use strict';
var name = 'A name here';
becomes:
'use strict';
var _x44736 = ["A name here"];
var name = _x44736[0];
Usage: command line
confusion
reads from stdin and writes to stdout. Just pipe your source or
build through it:
confusion < build.js > obfuscated.js
# or pipe the output of your build tool through it:
browserify . | confusion > obfuscated.js
Usage: programmatic interface
The confusion
module exposes two functions:
transformAst(programNode, createVariableName)
and createVariableName(names)
.
transformAst
takes a program AST node
({type: 'Program', body: [/* nodes...*/]}
) and a callback function to produce
the variable name of the string map. The callback takes an array of existing
variable names and should return an unused name.
createVariableName
is a default implementation of the callback needed by
transformAst
.
var parse = require('esprima').parse;
var toString = require('escodegen').generate;
var confusion = require('confusion');
var ast = parse(sourceCode);
var obfuscated = confusion.transformAst(ast, confusion.createVariableName);
console.log(toString(obfuscated));