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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Amit Klein, Herzliya, IL;
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Detecting malware-related activity on a computer by detecting activity associated with the creation of a data object, where the activity is performed by a process, where the process is an instance of a computer software application that resides in a computer memory and that is executed by a computer, and where the data object is configured to persist after termination of the process, determining a string that identifies the data object, searching for a portion of the string that identifies the data object within any areas of the computer memory storing static portions of the computer software application, and performing a computer-security-related remediation action responsive to determining that the portion of the string that identifies the data object is absent from the searched areas of the computer memory.