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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2009
Kent Griffin, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Tzi-cker Chiueh, Setauket, NY (US);
Scott Schneider, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Kent Griffin, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Tzi-cker Chiueh, Setauket, NY (US);
Scott Schneider, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for facilitating automatic malware signature generation may comprise providing a byte sequence marked for possible inclusion within one or more malware signatures, determining a context diversity of the byte sequence within malware files each containing the byte sequence in accordance with a diversity-based heuristic, and preventing the byte sequence from being included within the one or more malware signatures in accordance with the determined context diversity. Corresponding systems and computer-readable storage media are also disclosed.