Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Evaluating malware in a virtual machine using dynamic patching
-
Application No.: US13954877Application Date: 2013-07-30
-
Publication No.: US09613210B1Publication Date: 2017-04-04
- Inventor: Xinran Wang , Huagang Xie
- Applicant: Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP
- Main IPC: G06F21/60
- IPC: G06F21/60 ; G06F21/56 ; G06F9/455
Abstract:
Analysis of potentially malicious software samples in a virtualized environment is disclosed. One or more modifications are applied to a first virtual machine instance. The first virtual machine instance is initialized as a copy-on-write overlay associated with an original virtual machine image. Further, at least one modification includes the installation of startup instructions. The modified virtual machine instance is stared. A first set of modifications resulting from executing the first virtual machine instance is captured.
Information query
