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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2018
Applicant:
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Xinran Wang, San Ramon, CA (US);
Huagang Xie, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Assignee:
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/565 (2013.01); G06F 9/45533 (2013.01);
Abstract
Evaluating a potentially malicious sample using a copy-on-write overlay is disclosed. A first virtual machine instance is initialized as a copy-on-write overlay associated with an original virtual machine image. The first virtual machine image is started and a first sample is executed. A second virtual machine instance is initialized as a copy-on-write overlay associated with a second original virtual machine image. The second virtual machine image is started and a second sample is executed. The first and second samples are executed at an overlapping time.