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Detecting suspicious embedded malicious content in benign file formats

  • US 20080010538A1
  • Filed: 06/27/2006
  • Published: 01/10/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2006
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method for detecting malicious code comprising:

  • disassembling a data file, wherein the data file is a benign type of data file, wherein the disassembling includes searching said data file for one or more encodings corresponding to executable code; and

    designating the data file as suspicious in response to detecting one or more encodings corresponding to executable code in the data file.

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