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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2014
Fireeye, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Ashar Aziz, Fremont, CA (US);
Ramesh Radhakrishnan, Saratoga, CA (US);
Osman Ismael, Palo Alto, CA (US);
FireEye, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A system is provided with an interface and controller. The interface is configured to receive packets transmitted over a network between a first device and a second device. Transmitted over the network in accordance with a packet protocol, the packets include at least one packet transmitted from the first device and at least one packet transmitted from the second device. Coupled to the interface, the controller is configured to determine whether a plurality of packets have suspicious characteristics of malware and transmit the suspicious packets to an analysis environment. The analysis environment is configured to receive the plurality of packets that have suspicious characteristics of malware, modify at least a portion of these suspicious packets, and transmit at least the modified portion of the plurality of packets that have suspicious characteristics of malware to a virtual machine in accordance with a sequence of the packet protocol.