Detecting Malware Through Package Behavior

Patent №

US 8,499,350

Granted

2013-07-30

Filed 2009

Owner

SYMANTEC CORPORATION

Lab

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12511885

A file on a computer system is evaluated against trust criteria to determine whether the file is compatible with the trust criteria. Responsive to the file being incompatible with the trust criteria, the file is assigned to a package. Files assigned to the package are tracked to determine whether the files collectively perform malicious behavior. The package is convicted as malware responsive to the files in the package collectively performing malicious behavior.

AI classification

Planning0.58
AI hardware0.45
Knowledge representation0.29
Machine learning0.19
Natural language0.03
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

SYMANTEC CORPORATION

assignment · 230270382

Assignors

SATISH, SOURABH

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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