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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2019
Applicant:
Digital Immunity Llc, Burlington, MA (US);
Inventor:
Henry R. Tumblin, Malden, MA (US);
Assignee:
Digital Immunity LLC, Burlington, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 21/55 (2013.01); G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 12/1009 (2016.01); G06F 11/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/566 (2013.01); G06F 11/301 (2013.01); G06F 12/1009 (2013.01); G06F 21/561 (2013.01); G06F 21/564 (2013.01); G06F 21/568 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and system for mitigating a malware attack are disclosed herein. A malware detection module iterates over a virtual memory address space associated with a process executing on a computer system. The malware detection module identifies a region of memory likely to be vulnerable to a malware attack. Responsive to identifying the region of memory, a thread hollowing module determines a specific process thread associated with the identified region of memory. The thread hollowing module renders the specific process thread inoperable.