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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2019
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ben Phung, Culver City, CA (US);
Movses Margaryan, Culver, CA (US);
Joshua Opos, Culver City, UT (US);
NortonLifeLock Inc., Tempe, AZ (US);
Abstract
The disclosed computer-implemented method for identifying security risks posed by application bundles may include (i) intercepting, using a VPN client of the computing device, network traffic of the computing device, wherein an operating system of the computing device restricts applications into a sandboxed environment, (ii) storing, on the computing device, a copy of at least a portion of the network traffic of the computing device within a sandbox associated with the VPN client, (iii) identifying, by analyzing the copy of the network traffic, an application bundle within the network traffic, (iv) determining, by analyzing the application bundle in the sandbox associated with the VPN client, that the application bundle poses a security risk, and (v) in response to determining that the application bundle poses a security risk, performing a security action to remedy the security risk. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.