Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Detection of malicious invocation of application program interface calls
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Application No.: US16422711Application Date: 2019-05-24
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Publication No.: US10909236B2Publication Date: 2021-02-02
- Inventor: Kunal Mehta , Balbir Singh , Rajbir Bhattacharjee
- Applicant: McAfee, LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: McAfee, LLC
- Current Assignee: McAfee, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Patent Capital Group
- Main IPC: G06F21/54
- IPC: G06F21/54 ; G06F21/52

Abstract:
Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that includes a binder kernel driver. The binder kernel driver can be configured to receive an application program interface (API) call, extract metadata from the API call, determine that the API call should be hooked based on the extracted metadata, and hook the API call.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190278908A1 DETECTION OF MALICIOUS INVOCATION OF APPLICATION PROGRAM INTERFACE CALLS Public/Granted day:2019-09-12
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