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Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2020

Filed:

Aug. 14, 2017
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ashish Agarwal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Fei Peng, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Zhui Deng, Cupertino, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/56 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/566 (2013.01); G06F 21/564 (2013.01); G06F 2221/033 (2013.01);
Abstract

In some implementations, a computing device can determine the similarity of binary executables. For example, the computing device can receive an application, including a binary executable. The computing device can generate function signatures for the functions called within the binary executable. The computing device can generate a locality sensitive hash value for the application based on the function signatures. The computing device can group applications based on the locality sensitive hash value generated for each application. The computing device can compare the function signatures of the binary executables of the applications within a group to determine the similarity of the applications. If two applications have binary executables that are over a threshold percentage of similarity, the two applications can be identified as clones of each other.


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