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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2018
Applicant:
Mcafee, Llc, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventor:
Oliver G. Devane, Upton, GB;
Assignee:
McAfee, LLC, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01); G06F 16/903 (2019.01); H03M 7/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/564 (2013.01); G06F 16/90344 (2019.01); G06F 21/566 (2013.01); G06F 21/602 (2013.01); H03M 7/30 (2013.01); G06F 2221/033 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2107 (2013.01);
Abstract
There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: a hardware platform including a processor and a memory; and one or more mediums including instructions to instruct the processor to provide a security scanner to: determine that an object to be inspected is an archive including a plurality of bundled files; determine that the archive is encrypted; identify unencrypted data within the encrypted archive that can be made visible to an end user after a failed decryption operation; scan the unencrypted data for a pattern that matches password data; and attempt to decrypt the archive according to the password data.