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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2013
Applicant:
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Adam Overfield, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kevin Roundy, El Segundo, CA (US);
Jie Fu, Chengdu, CN;
Tao Cheng, Zigong, CN;
Zhi Kai Li, Zigong, CN;
Assignee:
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/56 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/56 (2013.01); H04L 63/14 (2013.01); H04L 2463/144 (2013.01);
Abstract
Techniques for detecting malicious code are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for detecting malicious code comprising the steps of identifying a query to a domain name service that resolves to a local address; identifying the process that originated the identified query; and designating the identified process as infected based on identifying the process as having originated the query that resolved to a local address.