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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2013
Applicant:
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Bartlomiej Uscilowski, Ratoath, IE;
Costin Ionescu, Dublin, IE;
Thomas Parsons, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, 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 17/30864 (2013.01); G06F 17/30427 (2013.01); G06F 17/30598 (2013.01); G06F 21/564 (2013.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 2221/033 (2013.01);
Abstract
Techniques are disclosed for evaluating the effectiveness of a malware signature. A query tool translates a markup language malware signature definition into a database query. The query is then executed against a database of application features to identify software packages that the signature would identify as malware. The results of the query are compared with threat information stored in the database and classified as being true/false positives and true/false negatives.