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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2022
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Tao Yan, San Jose, CA (US);
Jin Chen, San Jose, CA (US);
Bo Qu, Saratoga, CA (US);
Jiangxia Liu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Edouard Bochin, Montreal, CA;
Royce Lu, San Jose, CA (US);
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Detection of an exploit including shellcode is disclosed. Memory blocks are monitored during dynamic analysis of a sample to identify a memory block including suspicious shellcode. The memory block is dumped in memory to identify a candidate shellcode entry point associated with the suspicious shellcode. The suspicious shellcode is executed based on the candidate shellcode entry point to determine whether the suspicious shellcode is malicious. A verdict is generated regarding the sample based on results of executing the suspicious shellcode.