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Systems and methods for risk rating and pro-actively detecting malicious online ads

  • US 9,306,968 B2
  • Filed: 07/30/2014
  • Issued: 04/05/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A non-transitory machine readable medium on which are stored instructions, comprising instructions that when executed cause a programmable device to:

  • receive a web page including a SWF (small web format) file dynamically included in the web page as the web page is provided to the programmable device;

    locate an embedded redirection URL (uniform resource locator) contained within the SWF file;

    obtain a risk rating for the embedded redirection URL from a risk database if the risk rating for the embedded redirection URL is available in the risk database;

    generate the risk rating for the embedded redirection URL when the risk rating for the embedded redirection URL was not obtained from the risk database; and

    generate a risk rating for the SWF file based at least in part on the risk rating for the embedded redirection URL.

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