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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017

Filed:

Jun. 25, 2014
Applicant:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Andrew Collingwood Watson, Gloucestershire, GB;

Abubakar A. Wawda, Cupertino, CA (US);

Assignee:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 21/52 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/562 (2013.01); H04L 63/1416 (2013.01); G06F 21/52 (2013.01); H04L 63/1408 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosed computer-implemented method for analyzing suspected malware may include (1) identifying a file suspected of including malware, (2) performing a static analysis of the file to identify at least one indication of an attack vector that the file uses to attack computing systems, (3) obtaining, from at least one computing system, telemetry data that identifies at least one indication of an attack vector that the file uses to attack computing systems, (4) constructing, using the indications obtained from the static analysis and the telemetry data, an execution profile that describes an execution environment that provides the attack vectors indicated by the static analysis and the telemetry data, and (5) configuring the execution environment described in the execution profile to test the file for maliciousness. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.


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