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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2014
Applicant:
Mcafee, Llc, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventor:
Greg W. Dalcher, Tigard, OR (US);
Assignee:
McAfee, LLC, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/16 (2011.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 7/04 (2006.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/566 (2013.01); G06F 2221/033 (2013.01);
Abstract
Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to intercept a process, store execution profiling for the process if the process involves a privileged resource or a privileged operation, and analyze the code involved in each stack frame to determine malicious activity. If the process does not involve a privileged resource or a privileged operation, then the process is not analyzed.