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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2017
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Qichao Lan, Culver City, CA (US);
Mark Kennedy, Gardena, CA (US);
XueFeng Tian, Culver City, CA (US);
Barry Laffoon, Glendale, CA (US);
CA, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for identifying malicious computer files may include (i) receiving, by a computing device, a set of files from a set of client devices, (ii) performing, by the computing device, a machine learning classification of file attributes on the set of files, (iii) determining, based on the machine learning classification, a node pattern of a suspicious file in the set of files, (iv) calculating, by hashing the node pattern, a file prevalence score of the suspicious file, and (v) performing, by the computing device, a security action based on the file prevalence score of the suspicious file. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.