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Identifying application sources on non-rooted devices

  • US 9,092,615 B1
  • Filed: 01/28/2013
  • Issued: 07/28/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • monitoring for an application installation of an application on a computing device by a security application executing on the computing device, wherein the security application does not have root access to an operating system executing on the computing device;

    extracting a process identifier (PID) of the application being installed from a log message associated with the application installation;

    determining a package name from the PID, wherein the package name identifies an application store from which the application is installed;

    submitting the package name to a security service over a network;

    receiving, based on the package name, a confidence level for the application store from the security service over the network; and

    performing a security action based on the confidence level received from the security service.

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