Systems and methods for deduplicating malware scan attempts in a network

Abstract

Disclosed herein are systems and method for deduplicating malware scan attempts. In one exemplary aspect, a method may include: receiving, from a first computing device of a plurality of computing devices in a network, a first hash value of an object and a verdict of a malware scan performed on the object by the first computing device; storing the first hash value and the verdict in a shared verdict database; receiving, from a second computing device in the network, a verdict request including a second hash value; determining that the first hash value and the second hash value match; in response to determining the match, transmitting, to the second computing device, the verdict of the malware scan performed on the object by the first computing device, wherein the second computing device does not perform a redundant malware scan on the object.