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US08122509B1 Method for accelerating hardware emulator used for malware detection and analysis 有权
用于加速用于恶意软件检测和分析的硬件仿真器的方法

Method for accelerating hardware emulator used for malware detection and analysis
Abstract:
A method and system for accelerating malware emulator by using an accelerator. The accelerator allows for a potentially malicious component (i.e., process) containing dummy processes to be executed in a real CPU of a computer system using its operating memory. A special memory area is allocated for the process based on the memory requested by the process in the emulator. The state of the CPU and the memory is loaded in the emulator prior to executing the suspicious process. The system can be restored to its initial state in case of malicious actions performed by the process. The dummy instructions of the process are processed by the CPU at its own speed and as soon as the process performs a malicious instruction it is stopped by the emulator. The emulation process is accelerated to a speed of a regular CPU.
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