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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2017
Filed:
May. 20, 2015
Applicant:
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventor:
David Kane, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Assignee:
SYMANTEC CORPORATION, Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/14 (2006.01); G06F 12/16 (2006.01); G08B 23/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/566 (2013.01); G06F 21/567 (2013.01); G06F 2221/033 (2013.01);
Abstract
Techniques are presented for detecting malware in an executable. The method includes receiving an executable to evaluate for malware, emulating an execution of the executable up to a first count of instructions, determining a number of cache misses that occur while emulating the executable up to the first count of instructions, comparing the number of cache misses to a threshold, and upon determining the number of cache misses exceeds the threshold, identifying the executable as potentially containing malware.