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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2015
Applicant:
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/1441 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01);
Abstract
A candidate malware that potentially includes at least one malicious element is received. The candidate malware is executed using a virtualized environment. A determination is made that the candidate malware, while executing using the virtualized environment, has taken at least one anti-virtual machine action, wherein the anti-virtual machine action is indicative of an attempt by the candidate malware to evade detection of the malicious element by the system when the candidate malware is executed using a virtualized environment. In response to the determination, an alert that the candidate malware is malicious is generated as output.