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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2014
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ryan C. Salsamendi, San Jose, CA (US);
Wei Xu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Detecting duplicate malware samples is disclosed. A first guest clock is set to a first value in a first virtual machine instance. A first malware sample is executed in the first virtual machine instance. A second guest clock value is set to the first value in a second virtual machine instance. A second malware sample is executed in the second virtual machine instance. A determination is made as to whether the first malware sample and the second malware sample are the same, based at least in part on performing a comparison of attempted external contacts generated by executing each of the respective first and second malware samples.