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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2018
Applicant:
Mcafee, Llc, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventor:
Daniel L. Burke, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
McAfee, LLC, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/56 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/565 (2013.01); G06F 21/567 (2013.01); G06F 2221/034 (2013.01);
Abstract
Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to identify a binary file, identify strings in the binary file, determine that at least one string in the binary file is larger than one kilobytes of data, identify at least one substring from each of the at least one strings in the binary file is larger than one kilobytes of data, and analyze each of the at least one substrings to determine if each of the at least one substrings are suspicious and related to malware.