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Technique for detecting executable malicious code using a combination of static and dynamic analyses

  • US 20050108562A1
  • Filed: 06/18/2003
  • Published: 05/19/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/18/2003
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method for detecting malicious code comprising:

  • performing static analysis of an application prior to execution of the application identifying any invocations of at least one predetermined target routine;

    determining, prior to executing said at least one predetermined target routine during execution of the application, whether a run time invocation of the at least one predetermined target routine has been identified by said static analysis as being invoked from a predetermined location in said application; and

    if the run time invocation of the at least one predetermined target routine has not been identified from a predetermined location by said static analysis, determining that the application includes malicious code.

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