Mcafee, Inc.

Citrix Systems, Inc.

Ahmed Said Sallam

Joel Robert Spurlock

A method for proactively detecting shared libraries suspected of association with malware includes the steps of determining one or more shared libraries loaded on an electronic device, determining that one or more of the shared libraries include suspicious shared libraries by determining that the shared library is associated with indications that the shared library may have been maliciously injected, loaded, and/or operating on the electronic device, and identifying the suspicious shared libraries to a reputation server.

Method and system for proactive detection of malicious shared libraries via a remote reputation system

A system, method and computer program product are provided for sending, to a central system, information associated with unwanted activity. In use, information associated with unwanted activity is identified utilizing a plurality of different types of security systems. Further, the information is sent to a central system.

System, method and computer program product for sending unwanted activity information to a central system

A computer-implemented method of conducting online meetings includes gathering sensed environment information from a set of intelligent sensor devices in physical user environments, along with meeting information describing online meetings in which the users participate while located in the respective environments. The sensed environment information and meeting information are stored in an event database, intelligent environment-control devices in the physical user environments are configured for subsequent online meetings. The configuring includes operating a stateful behavioral engine using the sensed environment information and meeting information from the event database to identify patterns of user behavior and to configure the intelligent environment-control devices according to the identified patterns of user behavior.

Conducting online meetings with intelligent environment configuration

Continuous user authentication includes receiving authentication event information including (1) transaction information describing authentication transactions, the transaction information received from authentication providers and including identification of users and instances of authentication of the users by the authentication providers, and (2) user identification and activity information describing presence and state (e.g. location) of the users, this information received from (a) mobile sensing devices in physical proximity of users independent of user location, and (b) stationary sensing devices at fixed locations of the users. The authentication event information is stored in an authentication event database and is provided to the authentication providers in a continual manner to enable the authentication providers to (a) establish new authentications of the users for accessing services of the computing system, and (b) maintain and revoke previously established authentications of the users based on the authentication event information and authentication policies.

Enterprise computing environment with continuous user authentication

A method for detecting malware includes the steps of identifying a one or more open network connections of an electronic device, associating one or more executable objects on the electronic device with the one or more open network connections of the electronic device, determining the address of a first network destination that is connected to the open network connections of the electronic device, receiving an evaluation of the first network destination, and identifying one or more of the executable objects as malware executable objects. The evaluation includes an indication that the first network destination is associated with malware. The malware executable objects includes the executable objects that are associated with the open network connections that are connected to the first network destination.

Method and system for detection of malware that connect to network destinations through cloud scanning and web reputation

A system for securing an electronic device includes a non-volatile memory, a processor coupled to the non-volatile memory, a resource of the electronic device, firmware residing in the non-volatile memory and executed by the processor, and a firmware security agent residing in the firmware. The firmware is communicatively coupled to the resource of an electronic device. The firmware security agent is configured to, at a level below all of the operating systems of the electronic device accessing the resource, intercept a request for the resource and determine whether the request is indicative of malware.

System and method for firmware based anti-malware security

A method for detecting memory modifications includes allocating a contiguous block of a memory of an electronic device, and loading instructions for detecting memory modifications into the contiguous block of memory. The electronic device includes a plurality of processing entities. The method also includes disabling all but one of a plurality of processing entities of the electronic device, scanning the memory of the electronic device for modifications performed by malware, and, if a memory modification is detected, repairing the memory modification. The method also includes enabling the processing entities that were disabled. The remaining processing entity executes the instructions for detecting memory modifications.

Atomic detection and repair of kernel memory

A method for analyzing a computing system includes the steps of at a first moment in time, scanning the resources of the computing system for indications of malware, at a second moment in time scanning the resources of the computing system for indications of malware and determining the system executable objects loaded on the computing system, determining malware system changes, identifying a relationship between the malware system changes and the system executable objects loaded on the computing system, and identifying as suspected malware the system executable objects loaded on the computing system which have a relationship with the malware system changes. The malware system changes include differences between the results of scanning the resources of the computing system for indications of malware at the second and first moment of time.

Method and system for discrete stateful behavioral analysis

A system for protecting an electronic device against malware includes a memory, an operating system configured to execute on the electronic device, and a below-operating-system security agent. The below-operating-system security agent is configured to trap an attempted access of a resource of the electronic device, access one or more security rules to determine whether the attempted access is indicative of malware, and operate at a level below all of the operating systems of the electronic device accessing the memory. The attempted access includes attempting to write instructions to the memory and attempting to execute the instructions.

System and method for below-operating system trapping and securing loading of code into memory

A system for securing an electronic device may include a memory, a processor; one or more operating systems residing in the memory for execution by the processor; and a security agent configured to execute on the electronic device at a level below all of the operating systems of the electronic device accessing the memory. The security agent may be further configured to: (i) trap attempted accesses to the memory, wherein each of such attempted accesses may, individually or in the aggregate, indicate the presence of self-modifying malware; (ii) in response to trapping each attempted access to the memory, record information associated with the attempted access in a history; and (iii) in response to a triggering attempted access associated with a particular memory location, analyze information in the history associated with the particular memory location to determine if suspicious behavior has occurred with respect to the particular memory location.

System and method for below-operating system regulation and control of self-modifying code

A security agent configured to execute on the electronic device at a level below all of the operating systems of the electronic device accessing the memory or a storage of the electronic device may be further configured to: (i) access one or more security rules to determine a criteria by which an attempted access involving a transfer of content between the memory and the storage of an electronic device will be trapped; (ii) if the criteria is met, trap, at a level below all of the operating systems of the electronic device, attempted access of data between memory and storage of an electronic device; and (iii) analyze, at a level below all of the operating systems of the electronic device, information associated with the attempted access to determine if the attempted access was affected by malware

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Cupertino, CA, United States of America

Ahmed Said Sallam