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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2019
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Bruce McCorkendale, Manhattan Beach, CA (US);
NortonLifeLock Inc., Tempe, AZ (US);
Abstract
The disclosed computer-implemented method for identifying malware locations based on analyses of backup files may include (i) identifying a presence of a backup file set and (ii) performing a security action that may include (a) detecting, based on a scan of the backup file set, malware in the backup file set, (b) determining, based on a location of the malware in a system file structure of the backup file set, a subgraph of the system file structure of the backup file set that includes the malware, (c) identifying a string prefix for the subgraph of the system file structure of the backup file set, (d) using an index to cross-reference the string prefix to a pointer identifying a subgraph of an original file set, and (e) scanning a file in the subgraph of the original file set for the malware. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.