Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Behavioral scanning of mobile applications
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Application No.: US14445806Application Date: 2014-07-29
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Publication No.: US09894096B1Publication Date: 2018-02-13
- Inventor: Neilkumar Murli Daswani , Ameet Ranadive , Shariq Rizvi , Michael Gagnon , Tufan Demir , Gerald E. Eisenhaur
- Applicant: Twitter, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Francisco
- Assignee: Twitter, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Twitter, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Francisco
- Agency: Fenwick & West LLP
- Main IPC: G06F12/14
- IPC: G06F12/14 ; H04L29/06 ; H04L9/32 ; H04M1/725

Abstract:
Behavioral analysis of a mobile application is performed to determine whether the application is malicious. During analysis, various user interactions are simulated in an emulated environment to activate many possible resulting behaviors of an application. The behaviors are classified as hard or soft signals. A probability of the application being malicious is determined through combining soft signals, and the application is classified as malicious or non-malicious. Users of the application, the developer of the application, or a distributor of the application are notified of the application classification to enable responsive action.
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