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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2007
Cormac E. Herley, Bellevue, WA (US);
Brian W. Keogh, Bellevue, WA (US);
Aaron Michael Hulett, Redmond, WA (US);
Adrian M. Marinescu, Sammamish, WA (US);
Jeffrey S. Williams, Seattle, WA (US);
Stanislav Nurilov, Ft. Monmouth, NJ (US);
Cormac E. Herley, Bellevue, WA (US);
Brian W. Keogh, Bellevue, WA (US);
Aaron Michael Hulett, Redmond, WA (US);
Adrian M. Marinescu, Sammamish, WA (US);
Jeffrey S. Williams, Seattle, WA (US);
Stanislav Nurilov, Ft. Monmouth, NJ (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system and method that facilitates and effectuates detection of malware secreted and/or hidden in plain sight on a machine. The system and method in order to achieve its aims generates a list of all loaded modules, identifies from the list a set of modules common to more than a threshold number of processes, and eliminates from the list those modules included in an authentication list. The resultant list is prioritized based, in one instance, on the number of occurrences a particular module makes in the resultant list, and thereafter the list is distributed analyst workstations.