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Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 28, 2012
Applicant:

Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, AZ (US);

Inventors:

Bo Qu, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Xinran Wang, San Ramon, CA (US);

Kyle Sanders, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/563 (2013.01);
Abstract

An example of candidate malware is data that potentially includes one or more malicious elements. Candidate malware is received. The received candidate malware is analyzed using a virtual machine. A determination is made that the candidate malware has attempted to perform an anti-virtual machine action. Output that indicates that the candidate malware is malicious is generated.


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