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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2014
Fireeye, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Emmanuel Thioux, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Sai Vashisht, Union City, CA (US);
Michael Vincent, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
FireEye, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
According to one embodiment, a threat detection system is integrated with at least a dynamic analysis engine. The dynamic analysis engine is configured to automatically to detect potential shellcode at a first storage location within a region of memory allocated for an application, conduct a first search at one or more storage locations prior to the first storage location within the region of allocated memory for at least one or more patterns, conduct a second search at one or more storage locations subsequent to the first storage location within the region of allocated memory for at least one or more patterns, detect a first pattern at one or more storage locations prior to the first storage location within the region of allocated memory, and detect a second pattern at one or more storage locations subsequent to the first storage location with the region of allocated memory, wherein at least one of the first pattern or the second pattern is absent from a predefined list of patterns.