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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2020
Fireeye, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Sai Vashisht, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Sushant Paithane, Pune, IN;
Imtiyaz Yunus Pathan, Bangalore, IN;
FireEye Security Holdings US LLC, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the described invention is directed to a computerized method for improving detection of cybersecurity threats initiated by a script. Herein, the method is configured to analyze the script provided as part of a script object by at least (i) determining whether any functional code blocks forming the script include a critical code statement, (ii) determining whether any of the functional code blocks include an evasive code statement, (iii) modifying the script to control processing of a subset of the functional code blocks by avoiding an execution code path including the evasive code statement and processing functional code blocks forming a code path including the critical code statement, and (iv) executing of the modified script and monitoring behaviors of a virtual environment. Thereafter, the method is configured to determine whether the script including cybersecurity threats based on the monitored behaviors.