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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2018
Malwarebytes Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Mark William Patton, San Jose, CA (US);
Nathan Scott, Coconut Creek, FL (US);
Ramon Royo Gutierrez, Baracaldo, ES;
Sherab Giovannini, Portugalete, ES;
Malwarebytes Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An anti-malware application analyzes behavior of an executing process to identify ransomware. The anti-malware application detects an untrusted process requesting enumeration of a directory of user files and causes the untrusted process to initially operate on a decoy file that mimics the user files. If the behavior of the untrusted process with respect to the decoy file is indicative of ransomware, the process can be terminated without loss of the user files. The decoy file may be deployed in a way that is undetectable to the user.