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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2026
Filed:
May. 07, 2024
Netskope, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ghanashyam Satpathy, Bangalore, IN;
Hung-Chun Chu, Keelung City, TW;
Hung-Ming Chen, Kaohsiung City, TW;
Netskope, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A cloud-based network security system (NSS) is described. The NSS extracts information about a document (e.g., a portable document format (PDF) file) and uses heuristic rules to analyze the information to predict whether the document contains malicious software. Specifically, prior to detonation of the document, object features, code features, and embedded features of the document are extracted. The extracted information is input to a classification engine that applies sets of heuristic rules to groups of the features of the document to provide an output indicating a prediction of whether the document contains malware. A routing engine provides the document for further analysis (e.g., deep scanning) if the document is suspicious or bypasses the further analysis if the document is benign. Security policies can then be applied based on the classification.