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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2019
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuma Shinomiya, Musashino, JP;
Kazunori Kamiya, Musashino, JP;
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A search apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to extract fingerprints that are combinations of first communication data corresponding to requests and second communication data corresponding to responses to the requests, from communication data obtained by executing known malware, give degrees of priority corresponding to degrees of maliciousness of the malware, to the fingerprints, generate probes that are requests based on the first communication data included in the fingerprints and signatures based on the second communication data included in the fingerprints, decide, based on information about communication of sending-out destinations, search-target sending-out destinations from among the sending-out destinations, send out the probes generated to the search-target sending-out destinations decided in order according to the degrees of priority given, and determine whether the search-target sending-out destinations are malicious or not, based on whether responses to the probes sent out match the signatures generated or not.