Active defense method on the basis of cloud security

• US 9,177,141 B2
• Filed: 08/08/2011
• Issued: 11/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Beijing Qihu Technology Co. Ltd. (360 Security Technology, Inc.), Qizhi Software (Beijing) Company Limited (360 Security Technology, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Beijing Qihu Technology Co. Ltd. (360 Security Technology, Inc.), Qizhi Software (Beijing) Company Limited (360 Security Technology, Inc.)
• Inventors: Zhou, Hongyi, Zheng, Wenbin, Yu, He, Fan, Paul
• Primary Examiner(s): Kim, Jung
• Assistant Examiner(s): Stoica, Adrian
• Application Number:
  US13/817,577
• Publication Number:
  US 20130174257A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,548 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/56 Computer malware detection or handling, e.g. anti-virus arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/562 Static detection
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/567 using dedicated hardware
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/033 Test or assess software
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/1416 Event detection, e.g. attack signature detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/1425 Traffic logging, e.g. anomaly detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/145 the attack involving the propagation of malware through the network, e.g. viruses, trojans or worms

Abstract

The present invention relates to an active defense method based on cloud security comprising: a client collecting and sending a program behavior launched by a program thereon and/or a program feature of the program launching the program behavior to a server; with respect to the program feature and/or the program behavior sent by the client, the server performing an analysis and comparison in its database, making a determination on the program based on the comparison result, and feeding back to the client; based on the feedback determination result, the client deciding whether to intercept the program behavior, terminate execution of the program and/or clean up the program, and restore the system environment. The invention introduces a cloud security architecture, and employs a behavior feature based on active defense to search and kill a malicious program, thereby ensuring network security.

Claims

1. An active defense method based on cloud security, comprising:

recording a black/white list in a database, which black/white list including different program features and corresponding program behaviors;

receiving at least one program behavior and a program feature of a program from a client;

comparing the received program feature/program behavior with the recorded program feature/program behavior in the database, and making a determination on the program based on the comparison result;

feeding back the determination result to the client;

wherein, said method further comprising

based on the program features and the corresponding program behaviors thereof in the black/white list, performing an analysis of unknown program features and program behaviors of a first program and a second program to update the black/white list comprising

establishing an associated relationship between the first program and the second program based on their program features and their program behaviors;

when a program behavior of the first program is included into the black/white list, updating the black/white list by;

adding a program feature of the first program that corresponds to the program behavior of the first program to the black/white list, and

adding a program behavior and a program feature of the second program into the black/white list based on the associated relationship between the first program and the second program; and

/or

when a program feature of the first program is included into the black/white list, updating the black/white list by;

adding a program behavior of the first program that corresponds to the program feature of the first program to the black/white list, and

adding the program behavior and the program feature of the second program to the black/white list based on the associated relationship between the first program and the second program.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the program behavior comprises the program behavior itself and the attributes of the object of the program behavior;

the attributes of the object of the program behavior further comprise the black and white level to which the behavioral object itself belongs, the position in the system and type of the behavioral object, the behavior itself made by the behavioral object and the black and white level to which the behavior itself belongs.

3. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of comparing the received program feature/program behavior and the recorded program feature/program behavior in a database and making a determination on the program based on the comparison result comprising

comparing the received program feature of the program with the feature codes in the blacklist stored in the database, and if hit, determining the program as a malicious program.

4. A method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the step of comparing the received program feature/program behavior and the recorded program feature/program behavior in a database and making a determination on the program based on the comparison result comprising

comparing a series of received program behaviors of the program with a sequence of identified malicious behaviors in the blacklist stored in the database, accumulating on weight values of the hit program behaviors, comparing the accumulated value with a preset threshold, and if the value exceeds the threshold, then determining the program as a malicious program.

5. A method as claimed in claim 4, wherein assigning a corresponding weight value to a respective malicious behavior stored in the database, and the setting of the weight values is obtained according to experiences of the skilled in the art or based on a large amount of collected client data through statistical computation.

6. A method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the step of comparing the received program feature/program behavior and the recorded program feature/program behavior in a database and making a determination on the program based on the comparison result comprising

comparing a series of received program behaviors of the program with a sequence of identified malicious behaviors in the blacklist stored in the database, accumulating on weight values of the hit program behaviors, comparing the accumulated value with a preset threshold, and if the value exceeds the threshold, then analyzing on the program, obtaining its feature code, comparing its feature code with feature codes of the blacklist stored in the database, and if hit, then determining the program as a malicious program.

7. A method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the step of comparing the received program feature/program behavior and the recorded program feature/program behavior in a database and making a determination on the program based on the comparison result further comprising a step of updating:

updating in real time or periodically at least one of a program feature of the malicious program and a program behavior of the malicious program into the blacklist in the database for storing.

8. A method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising

for a program included into the blacklist in the database, further recording the reverse behavior of the program to perform the reverse behavior when it is confirmed that the program included into the blacklist exists in the client computer;

and/or

for a program included into the blacklist in the database, based on the behavior of the program, determining the information on an infected file in the client computer, and based on the information on the infected file, downloading a corresponding intact file stored in the database to the client computer to overwrite the infected file; and

/or

further recording in the database change in number of an identical program feature collected by different client computers within a preset time, and if within a preset time, the increase or decrease in number of a certain unknown program feature collected by different client computers exceeds a threshold, then including in the database the program feature and its corresponding program behavior into the blacklist.