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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2014
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Andrew Watson, Gloucestershire, GB;
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed computer-implemented method for accelerating malware analyzes in automated execution environments may include (1) monitoring a file that is undergoing a malware analysis in an automated execution environment, (2) while monitoring the file, detecting one or more behaviors exhibited by the file during the malware analysis in the automated execution environment, (3) determining, during the malware analysis, that the file exceeds a threshold level of suspicion based at least in part on the behaviors exhibited by the file, and then in response to determining that the file exceeds the threshold level of suspicion, (4) initiating a security action prior to reaching a scheduled completion of the malware analysis. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.