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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2013
Jun Mao, Culver City, CA (US);
Abubakar Wawda, Cupertino, CA (US);
Jun Mao, Culver City, CA (US);
Abubakar Wawda, Cupertino, CA (US);
SYMANTEC CORPORATION, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for identifying an application source from which an application is installed on a non-rooted computing device. An application source identifier of a security application that does not have root access to an operating system monitors for an application installation. The application source identifier extracts a process identifier (PID) of the application being installed from a log message associated with the application installation and determines a package name from the PID. The PID identifies an application source from which the application is installed. The application source identifier receives, based on the package name, a confidence level for the application source from a security service over a network.