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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2018
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Aaron T. Woland, Waxhaw, NC (US);
Vivek Santuka, Morrisville, NC (US);
Moses Hernandez, Boca Raton, FL (US);
Steven H. Chimes, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Andrew E. Ossipov, Lewisville, TX (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for selecting either a first malware analysis system or a second malware analysis system to analyze a file is disclosed. The method includes obtaining, at a network security element, a file sent between a first device and a second device, the file having one or more associated attributes; analyzing, at the network security element, the one or more attributes of the file; selecting, based on the analyzing, either the first malware analysis system or the second malware analysis system as a selected malware analysis system for malware analysis of the file; and providing the file to the selected malware analysis system.