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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2019
Applicant:
Mcafee, Llc, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
German Lancioni, San Jose, CA (US);
Carl D. Woodward, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
McAfee, LLC, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 16/11 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 16/122 (2019.01); G06F 2221/034 (2013.01);
Abstract
Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to identify a file, determine a polyglotness score for the file, where the polyglotness score is an indicator of whether or not the file is a polyglot file, and analyze the file for the presence of malware if the polyglotness score satisfies threshold.