Embodiments of the disclosure relate to the field of data security. More specifically, one embodiment of the disclosure relates to a system, apparatus and method that use malware analysis results obtained during replay operations to dynamically adjust instrumentation of a virtual machine utilized for exploit detection.
Over the last decade, malicious software (malware) has become a pervasive problem for Internet users. In some situations, malware is a program or file that is embedded within downloadable content and designed to adversely influence or attack normal operations of a computer. Examples of different types of malware may include bots, computer viruses, worms, Trojan horses, spyware, adware, or any other programming that operates within an electronic device (e.g., computer, tablet, smartphone, server, router, wearable technology, or other types of electronics with data processing capability) without permission by the user or an administrator.
One type of malware is distributed over a network via websites, e.g., servers operating on a network according to a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) standard or other well-known standard. Malware distributed in this manner may be actively downloaded and installed on a computer, without the approval or knowledge of its user, simply by the computer accessing the web site hosting the malicious network content (the “malicious web site”).
Besides being in the form of malware-embedded objects associated with web pages hosted by the malicious web site, malware may also enter a computer on receipt or opening of an electronic mail (email) message. For example, email may contain a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or an attachment, such as a Portable Document Format (PDF) document, with embedded malicious executable programs. Furthermore, malware may exist in files contained in a computer memory or storage device, having infected those files through any of a variety of attack vectors.
Various processes and devices have been employed to prevent the problems associated with malware. For example, computers often run antivirus scanning software that scans a particular computer for viruses and other forms of malware. The scanning typically involves automatic detection of a match between content stored on the computer (or attached media) and a library or database of signatures of known malware. The scanning may be initiated manually or based on a schedule specified by a user or system administrator associated with the particular computer. Unfortunately, by the time the scanning software detects malware, some damage on the computer or loss of privacy may have already occurred, and the malware may have propagated from the infected computer to other computers. Where the malware is polymorphic malware, which is capable of mutating to defect signature matching, antivirus scanning offers little protection.
Another type of malware detection solution employs a virtual environment that virtualizes the processing of data flows (e.g., series of related packets) within a sandbox environment. The sandbox environment comprises a virtual machine (VM) that conducts generic virtualized processing (sometimes referred to as “replay”) operations on at least some content within a data flow in efforts to detect behavioral anomalies that may signal the presence of an exploit (e.g., a detected malicious attack by malware). For example, in response to detecting a timeout event where no exploit has manifested after a predetermined amount of time has elapsed, the VM may merely change its software profile and perform the same replay process. If an exploit is detected, however, and if processing time is still available, the same generic VM instrumentation will continue to run for the allotted time without any intelligence as to making run-time more efficient.
More specifically, the above-described malware detection solution is inefficient as the same replay process is used without considering the particular exploits targeted for detection, if any are specifically targeted, and/or without considering the results of an initial analysis or whether the analysis actually detected an exploits.
Embodiments of the invention are illustrated by way of example and not by way of limitation in the figures of the accompanying drawings, in which like references indicate similar elements and in which:
Various embodiments of the disclosure relate to a malware content detection (MCD) system and a corresponding method for utilizing malware analysis results obtained during replay operations conducted by one or more virtual machines for exploit detection, where the malware analysis results are used to dynamically adjust instrumentation of the virtual machine(s) to achieve reduced configuration time and increased effectiveness in exploit detection.
In general, a “replay” operation is virtualized processing of an object by one or more virtual machines (VMs) within a sandboxed virtual environment in efforts to detect the presence of malware, where the object is associated with network traffic propagating over a network. Examples of an object may include content received over a network (e.g., Internet downloads), a file (e.g., PDF file, Flash file or other file type), a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) embedded within an electronic mail (email) message, data flow (e.g., series of related packets), or other types of content. Herein, a VM supplies malware analysis results produced during the replay operation to instrumentation control logic (e.g., logic implemented within a replay analysis engine which may be part of the VMM). The instrumentation control logic is responsible for dynamically altering the instrumentation of the VM based on the malware analysis results. In other words, the malware analysis results received by the instrumentation control logic are used to determine if/when a dynamic change of the VM instrumentation is to occur and perhaps the changed VM instrumentation. The dynamic change to the VM instrumentation comprises changing logic associated with a particular VM process in the VM, which is running as part of the host virtual system (e.g. at the Host layer), while preserving state so as to remain transparent to the guest virtual system (e.g. Guest layer) of the VM.
As this dynamic change of the VM instrumentation may be in response to detection of an exploit or a particular triggering event associated with on-going malware analysis results, a greater number of samples of content may be analyzed as well as the malware analysis may be conducted faster and more efficiently. In other words, VM instrumentation changes are conducted based on malware analysis results uncovered from prior virtual processing of, e.g., the network traffic in order to more promptly and more accurately target exploits that may be present in the network traffic. For instance, if behaviors associated with the virtual processing of binary code are being analyzed, instrumenting the VM to better target binary at the opcode level would greatly improve the accuracy of the malware analysis. Similarly, if behaviors associated with the processing of network traffic are being analyzed, altering VM instrumentation at the virtual device level (e.g., within VM processes of a VM) may provide more complete malware analysis. In sum, prompt and directed adjustment of VM instrumentation not only reduces configuration time so as to reduce the chances of any malware detecting that it is operating within a virtual environment, but also increases accuracy and effectiveness in exploit detection.
In the following description, certain terminology is used to describe features of the invention. For example, in certain situations, both terms “logic” and “engine” are representative of hardware, firmware and/or software that is configured to perform one or more functions. As hardware, logic (or engine) may include hardware circuitry having data processing or storage functionality. Examples of such circuitry may include, but is not limited or restricted to a microprocessor, one or more processor cores, a programmable gate array, a microcontroller, an application specific integrated circuit, a digital signal processor, semiconductor memory, combinatorial logic, or the like.
Logic (or engine) may be in the form of one or more software modules, such as executable code in the form of an executable application, an application programming interface (API), a subroutine, a function, procedure, an applet, a servlet, a routine, source code, object code, a shared library/dynamic load library, or one or more instructions. These software modules may be stored in any type of a suitable non-transitory storage medium, or transitory storage medium (e.g., electrical, optical, acoustical or other form of propagated signals such as carrier waves, infrared signals, or digital signals). Examples of non-transitory storage medium may include, but are not limited or restricted to a programmable circuit; a semiconductor memory; non-persistent storage such as volatile memory (e.g., any type of random access memory “RAM”); persistent storage such as non-volatile memory (e.g., read-only memory “ROM”, power-backed RAM, flash memory, phase-change memory, etc.), a solid-state drive, hard disk drive, an optical disc drive, or a portable memory device. As firmware, the executable code is stored in persistent storage.
The term “content” generally refers to information transmitted as one or more messages, where each message may be in the form of a packet, a frame, an Asynchronous Transfer Mode “ATM” cell, or any other series of bits having a prescribed format. The content may be received as a data flow, namely a group of related messages, within ingress network traffic.
Herein, content may include one or more types of data such as text, software, images, audio, metadata and/or other digital data. One example of content may include web content, or any data traffic that may be transmitted using a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) protocol, or may be transmitted in a manner suitable for display on a Web browser software application.
Another example of content includes electronic mail (email), which may be transmitted using an email protocol such as Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3), or Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP4). A further example of content includes an Instant Message, which may be transmitted using Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) or Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) for example. Yet another example of content includes one or more files that are transferred using a data transfer protocol such as File Transfer Protocol (FTP) for subsequent storage on a file share.
The term “malware” is directed to software that produces an undesired behavior upon execution, where the behavior is deemed to be “undesired” based on customer-specific rules, manufacturer-based rules, and any other type of rules formulated by public opinion or a particular governmental or commercial entity. This undesired behavior may include a communication-based anomaly or an execution-based anomaly that would (1) alter the functionality of an electronic device executing an application software in a malicious manner; (2) alter the functionality of an electronic device executing that application software without any malicious intent; and/or (3) provide an unwanted functionality which is generally acceptable in other context.
In general, a “virtual machine” (VM) is a simulation of an electronic device (abstract or real) that is usually different from the electronic device conducting the simulation. A VM may include one or more VM processes where each VM process is based on specifications of a hypothetical electronic component (e.g., processor, network interface card “NIC”; storage device, etc.) so as to collectively emulate the architecture and functions of a real electronic device. For simplicity, one type of VM process, referred to as a “virtual device,” may be a virtualization of an electronic device or an electronic component.
“VM instrumentation” refers to a software module configured for execution on a virtual machine (VM), where the software module controls and/or monitors virtualized operations conducted on an object associated with network traffic. These virtualized operations, which are representative of operations conducted by the virtual device, produce information from which behaviors may be determined. The detection of anomalous behaviors represent that the object is suspicious and may include malware. An assigned level of suspiciousness may be used to identify the likelihood that the object includes malware.
The term “transmission medium” is a communication path between two or more systems (e.g. any electronic devices with data processing functionality such as, for example, a security appliance, server, mainframe, computer, netbook, tablet, smart phone, router, switch, bridge or brouter). The communication path may involve wired, wireless and/or logical communications. Examples of wired and/or wireless communications include electrical wiring, optical fiber, cable, bus trace, or a wireless channel using infrared, radio frequency (RF), or any other wired/wireless signaling mechanism. An example of logical communication includes two software components in communication with each other, although they are not physically connected.
The term “computerized” generally represents that any corresponding operations are conducted by hardware in combination with software and/or firmware.
Lastly, the nomenclature “<item>(s)” denotes “one or more <items>” and the terms “or” and “and/or” as used herein are to be interpreted as inclusive or meaning any one or any combination. Therefore, “A, B or C” or “A, B and/or C” mean “any of the following: A; B; C; A and B; A and C; B and C; A, B and C.” An exception to this definition will occur only when a combination of elements, functions, steps or acts are in some way inherently mutually exclusive.
As this invention is susceptible to embodiments of many different forms, it is intended that the present disclosure is to be considered as an example of the principles of the invention and not intended to limit the invention to the specific embodiments shown and described.
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Herein, according to this embodiment of the invention, first MCD system 1101 is an electronic device that is adapted to (i) receive network traffic that is routed over a communication network 130 between at least one server device 140 and at least one client device 150 and (ii) monitor, in real-time, content within the network traffic. More specifically, first MCD system 1101 may be configured to inspect content received via communication network 130 and identify “suspicious” objects. An object is identified as “suspicious” when it is assessed by a preliminary analysis engine 170, with a certain level of likelihood, that at least one characteristic identified during inspection of the object indicates the presence of malware.
Thereafter, the “suspicious” object is scheduled by scheduler 180 to be analyzed within a replay analysis engine 190. Replay analysis engine 190 provides a static analytical environment 191 and/or a dynamic analytical environment 192.
The static analytical environment 191 comprises a first analysis engine 193 that is adapted to conduct static malware detection operations, such as comparisons between binary content from the network traffic and suspected malware identifiers (e.g. alphanumeric patterns associated with known or suspected malware, etc.) for example. The dynamic analytical environment 192 comprises a second analysis engine 194, which includes at least instrumentation control logic operating in concert with VM(s) as described herein. The second analysis engine 194 is adapted to detect whether the suspicious object may include malware by execution of one or more VMs that are configured to simulate the receipt and/or processing of the object under analysis (“analyzed object”) targeted for the client device 150. The second analysis engine 194 analyzes the resultant behaviors monitored within the VM. These may include “expected” behaviors (e.g., those typically resulting from processing objects of the type being analyzed) and “unexpected” (or “anomalous”) behaviors, and may represent those behaviors that would have occurred if the targeted client device 150 processed the object, and these behaviors are provided as malware analysis results to logic within replay analysis engine 190. Examples of anomalous behavior may include, but are not limited or restricted to unexpected network transmissions, unexpected changes in performance, or the like.
In response to the malware analysis results, instrumentations of the VM may be altered in a manner that is transparent to the virtualized operating system of the VM so as to re-configure the VM for continued or subsequent analysis, e.g., focused on a particular exploit or family of exploits that are more likely to be present within the network traffic based on the malware analysis results already provided.
Herein, first analysis engine 192 and the second analysis engine 194 may operate on the analyzed content concurrently or may operate on the analyzed content sequentially. For sequential operations, the first analysis engine normally performs static analysis on the analyzed content prior to the second analysis engine 194 performing dynamic analysis on that content.
According to this embodiment of communication system 100, first MCD system 1101 may be a web-based security appliance that is configured to inspect ingress data traffic, identify whether content associated with the data traffic may include malware, and if so, conduct a deeper analysis of the content. This deeper analysis is conducted in the replay analysis engine 190 to detect anomalous and undesired behaviors that would be present if the data traffic were actually processed by an electronic device such as client device 150. The particulars of this analysis are described below.
The communication network 130 may include a public computer network such as the Internet, in which case an optional firewall 155 (represented by dashed lines) may be interposed between communication network 130 and client device 150. Alternatively, the communication network 130 may be a private computer network such as a wireless telecommunication network, wide area network, or local area network, or a combination of networks.
The first MCD system 1101 is shown as being coupled with the communication network 130 (behind the firewall 155) via a network interface 160. The network interface 160 operates as a data capturing device (sometimes referred to as a “tap” or “network tap”) that is configured to receive data traffic propagating to/from the client device 150 and provide content from the data traffic to the first MCD system 1101.
According to one embodiment of the disclosure, the network interface 160 is configured to receive and copy content from the network traffic targeted for client device 150 normally without an appreciable decline in performance by the server device 140, the client device 150, or the communication network 130. The network interface 160 may copy any portion of the content, for example, any number of data packets. According to another embodiment of the disclosure, the network interface 160 is an in-line device that intercepts and routes the content, being some or all of the network traffic, to first MCD system 1101. Where the network traffic does not contain suspicious object, the network traffic is returned back to the network interface 160 for re-routing to the targeted destination (e.g., client device 150).
In some embodiments, the network interface 160 may capture metadata from network traffic intended for client device 150, where the metadata is used to determine the software profile and particular VM instrumentation(s) for the VM(s), if further malware analysis is needed. The metadata may be associated with the server device 140 and/or the client device 150. In other embodiments, preliminary analysis logic 170 (described herein) may obtain or generate the metadata associated with the network traffic.
It is contemplated that, for any embodiments where the first MCD system 1101 is implemented as an dedicated appliance or a dedicated electronic device, the network interface 160 may include an assembly integrated into the appliance or networking logic that includes network ports, network interface card or the like. The integrated assembly or networking logic provides coupling to the communication network 130 in order to non-disruptively “tap” network traffic propagating through firewall 155 and provide the network traffic (or a copy thereof) to the preliminary analysis logic 170. In other embodiments, the network interface 160 can be integrated into an intermediary device in the communication path (e.g. in firewall 155, router, switch or other network device) or can be a standalone component, such as an appropriate commercially available network tap. In virtual environments, a virtual tap (vTAP) can be used to duplicate traffic from virtual networks.
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In general, the preliminary analysis engine 170 serves as a filter to permit subsequent malware analysis only on certain portions of the incoming content, which effectively conserves system resources and provides faster response time in determining the presence of malware within analyzed object(s). As an ancillary benefit, by analyzing only a portion of incoming content that may have “exploits” (e.g. one or more objects, referred to as “object(s),” that may be exploited by malware), a greater number of VMs (and VM processes) may be supported to run concurrently with each other.
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For example, the preliminary analysis logic 170 may examine the attributes (and/or metadata) for content associated with an object in order to determine whether the object originated from a blacklisted, malicious server, malicious web site, or originated from a region (or networking device) that is providing a high level of content having malware. Also, the preliminary analysis logic 170 may examine the content itself to determine whether such content includes objects that have a higher probability of including malware than other objects (e.g., attached files in email messages, embedded URLs, etc.). According to one embodiment of the disclosure, the preliminary analysis logic 170 flags “suspicious” objects.
Thereafter, according to one embodiment of the invention, the preliminary analysis logic 170 may be adapted to transmit at least a portion of the metadata or attributes associated with the suspicious object, which, for example, identifies the type of software (e.g., browser, email reader, or document reader) that the object requires to be processed, and, in some cases, identifies attributes of the targeted client device 150, to scheduler 180. The metadata and/or attributes are used by the scheduler 180 to determine the software profile(s) for the VM(s) as well as the VM instrumentation(s) needed for processing the suspicious object in the sandboxed virtual environment.
More specifically, scheduler 180 comprises queues and logic for identifying the type of object targeted for replay (e.g. HTTP traffic, PDF files, Flash files, etc.), identifying the software profile and VM instrumentation needed for the VM, and determining when the object is ready for processing in the dynamic analytical (virtual) environment of the replay analysis engine 190. In another embodiment of the disclosure, the replay analysis engine 190 may be adapted to receive one or more messages (e.g. data packets) from the preliminary analysis logic 170 and analyze the message(s) to identify what VM(s) is(are) to be deployed. Replay analysis engine 190 would provide signaling to scheduler 180 to retrieve the VM(s) with particular VM instrumentation(s).
For instance, as an illustrative example, the suspicious content under analysis may include an email message that was generated, under control of Windows® 8 Operating System, using a certain version (ver. X) of Windows® Outlook. The email message further includes a Portable Document Format (PDF) attachment in accordance with a particular version (ver. Y) of Adobe® Acrobat®. Upon determining that the email message includes a suspicious object, preliminary analysis logic 170 provides software profile information to scheduler 180 to identify a particular type of VM instrumentation needed to conduct malware analysis of the suspicious object. According to this illustrative example, the software profile information would include (1) Windows® 8 Operating System (OS); (2) Windows® Outlook, version X; and (3) PDF support through Adobe® Acrobat®, version Y.
Thereafter, the scheduler 180 conducts a search as to whether any of the VM disk files 187 within data store 185 features a particular VM instrumentation to process the suspicious object in accordance with the above-identified OS and one or more applications. If so, the scheduler 180 creates a VM with a VM process having the corresponding VM instrumentation. However, if the data store 185 does not feature a software profile supporting the above-identified OS and application(s), the scheduler 180 may simply ignore the VM request or may retrieve a VM image that is based on a similar software profile. For example, the scheduler 180 may receive a VM based on the same OS but a different version of a targeted application (e.g., Adobe® Acrobat® version “Z”. Alternatively, the scheduler 180 may receive the same OS along with an application different from the targeted application but having similar functionality (e.g. different type of browser, etc.). As another alternative, the scheduler 180 may receive a different OS with a similar architecture.
During run-time, a VM provides malware analysis results to instrumentation control logic 250 of
The data store 185 is configured to store one or more VM disk files 187, where each VM disk file 187 includes a VM instrumentation. Capable of being pre-stored, uploaded and/or erased automatically via management system 120 or locally uploaded by an administrator, the VM instrumentations provide different functionality to increase the likelihood of detecting potential exploits. For example, a first VM disk file may include a first VM instrumentation directed to analysis of JavaScript® code in accordance with a first type of JavaScript® engine and a second VM disk file may include a second VM instrumentation directed to deeper-level analysis of JavaScript® code in accordance with a different type of JavaScript® engine.
The dynamic alteration of the VM instrumentation is directed to select a new VM instrumentation that may be directed to a recently detected exploit (or family of exploits) that commonly causes or is related to characteristics associated with anomalous behavior identified in the malware analysis results (e.g., unusual network transmissions, unusual changes in performance, etc.). In fact, some VM instrumentations may be directed to detecting the same or related exploit types but feature different functionality (e.g. faster processing, specifically targeted processing, different software components, etc.).
The replay analysis engine 190 may flag a suspicious object as malware according to the observed anomalous behavior detected by the VM. The reporting module 195 may issue alerts indicating the presence of malware, and using pointers and other reference information, identify what portion of the “suspicious” object may contain malware. Additionally, the malicious server, e.g., server device 140, or malicious website, may be added to a list of malicious network content providers, and future network transmissions originating from the server device 140 may be blocked from reaching their intended destinations, e.g., by firewall 155.
Of course, in lieu of or in addition to MCD systems 1101-110N, it is contemplated that cloud computing services 135 may be implemented with the replay analysis engine 190 to conduct VM-based dynamic analysis on one or more objects within the network traffic, perform dynamic changes in VM instrumentation and/or store and provide VM instrumentations as needed, as described herein.
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Processor 200 is further coupled to persistent storage 230 via transmission medium 225. According to one embodiment of the disclosure, persistent storage 230 comprises a scheduler 180 and a replay analysis engine 190 that may be logic within a controller. Herein, the controller may be implemented as part of a VM monitor (VMM), also referred to as a hypervisor for managing or monitoring VMs, which may be hosted by a host operating system “OS” (not shown).
Replay analysis engine 190 comprises instrumentation control logic 250 which includes logic that are adapted to analyze malware analysis results received from one or more VMs 2601-260M (M≥1) during run-time. Such analysis is directed to optimizing performance of exploit detection processes conducted by the VMs 2601-260M. Such optimization is accomplished by the instrumentation control logic 250 causing a dynamic change in the instrumentation of a VM (e.g., VM 2601) while preserving the state of operation as perceived by the guest operating system.
According to one embodiment of the disclosure, the dynamic change may be accomplished by changing an implementation of a VM process (e.g. virtual device). More specifically, the dynamic change may be accomplished by changing a pointer to at least particular function for the virtual device that is utilized by the VM, while preserving both the state of the virtual device associated with the VM and the defined operation for the particular function. The defined operation may be provided from opcode associated with the particular function (sometimes referred to as the “specification”). As an illustrative example, the dynamic change may alter a pointer to a particular function (e.g. ADD function) to now point to a second VM instrumentation (e.g. a second ADD function for the virtual device associated with the VM) in lieu of the first VM instrumentation (e.g. a first ADD function for the virtual device associated with the VM). Both VM instrumentations are directed to the same specification (e.g. ADD data in register R1 and register R2 and store the result in register R3), but the second VM instrumentation includes additional functionality not found in the first VM instrumentation.
According to one embodiment of the disclosure, the dynamic change of the VM instrumentation (VM instrumentation 1871→VM instrumentation 187X, X≥2) is triggered by instrumentation control logic 250 detecting an event, such as a detected behavior that may be associated with a particular exploit or exploit type for example, and thereafter, signaling the VM 2601 (or the scheduler 180 directly) to re-configure itself with one or more VM instrumentations directed to further detection of the particular exploit or exploit type.
In order to convey the malware analysis results 1891-189X stored in data store 185, which may include the file names, URLs, server DNS names or the like associated with suspicious exploits, processor(s) 200 may invoke GUI logic 280. GUI logic 280 provides one or more screen displays for conveying a more detailed summary of potentially malicious content being detected by MCD system 1101.
It is contemplated that multiple VMs 2601-260i (1<i≤M) may concurrently or sequentially perform malware analyses on the same suspicious object or, for that matter, on different suspicious objects. According to one embodiment of the disclosure, each of these multiple VMs 2601-260i may be associated with a different virtual device and/or may have different VM instrumentations. The analysis results in any of the multiple VMs 2601-260i may cause a new VM to be instantiated with a different instrumentation package/program or may cause/trigger one of the other VMs 2601-260i to interrupt its analysis to permit new instrumentation for one of this VM processes (virtual devices) to be provided.
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VM process 340 comprises a first logic portion (e.g. software component) 350 and a second logic portion 360. First logic portion 350 comprises a first interface 352 (e.g. set of instructions and/or one or more registers) for Guest 300 and enables guest 300 to visualize hardware where the physical implementation of the hardware is located at a Host kernel 335. The first interface 352 is static in nature so as to preserve state information associated with the VM process 340 as perceived by the guest 300.
In contrast, the second logic portion 360 comprises a VM instrumentation 365, which is executable software that controls and/or monitors operations associated with the virtual device 350. These virtualized operations may be used to monitor behavior of suspicious objects being executed on the Guest 300 during virtualized use the virtual device 350. The VM instrumentation 365 further provides an interface to physical resources associated with the virtualized computing resources.
As an example, VM instrumentation 365 may be a software component that is configured to monitor for a certain event (e.g., access to a particular address range in memory by the CPU) and issues an alert in response to each memory access. This monitoring and issuance of alerts is independent from the Guest application (e.g. Adobe® Acrobat) running on the Guest 300, where the process may be executing “suspicious” objects from intercepted network traffic. As the state of operation for the process is preserved, when no further tracking is desired based on detection of the event, the VM instrumentation 365 can be dynamically changed while the Guest application continues to run. The VM instrumentation on the VM is adjusted transparent to the Guest 300 to optimize exploit detection associated with a particular exploit monitored, such as heap spray for example.
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Herein, vNIC 400 of the VM 2601 receives content 440 representative of network traffic (e.g. data representative of data packets) from replay analysis engine 190 during replay operations. vNIC 400 translates the received content 440 into a representation 445 (e.g., data frame) that is utilized by Guest 300 and issues an interrupt (not shown) to Guest 300 of the presence of read data. One type of interrupt may be a Direct Memory Access (DMA) request to the Guest OS 310. The translated data frame 445 is pushed onto the network stack for the Guest OS 310 and the data frame is subsequently processed by the vCPU 420 for a particular Guest application 320, where the output associated with the particular Guest application 320 becomes part of the malware analysis results provided to the instrumentation control logic 250.
In response to receipt of an event (e.g. timeout, exploit instrumented by VM instrumentation (CPU1), etc.), the instrumentation control logic 250 issues signaling to the VM 2601 to dynamically change its VM instrumentation from a first VM instrumentation (CPU1) 450 to a second VM instrumentation (CPU2) 455. Such signaling may be a single command to the VM 2601 or may involve a message that includes address or other information that identifies the second VM instrumentation (CPU2) 455 stored in the data store. This dynamic change of the VM instrumentation occurs transparently to Guest 300 as represented by a change in operating state 460 from a first state (Si) to an immediately subsequent state (Si+1).
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Herein, vStorage device 410 of the VM 2601 receives one or more objects 470 (e.g., PDF file, URL, etc.) attached to or embedded within email messages, which are part of the analyzed content from replay analysis engine 190 provided to the VM 2601 during replay operations. In response to receiving a PDF file, logic (e.g. software component) within vStorage device 410 generates a first interrupt to Guest OS 310 that prompts execution by vCPU 420 of the Guest application 320 that will process data 475 representative of the PDF file stored within vStorage device 410. For a URL, however, vStorage device 410 features logic (e.g., software component) that generates a second interrupt to the Guest OS 310 to prompt execution by vCPU 420 of a guest browser application for the uploaded URL.
In response to receipt of an event (e.g. timeout, exploit instrumented by a first VM instrumentation (CPU1) 480, the instrumentation control logic 250 issues signaling to the VM 2601 to dynamically change its VM instrumentation to a second VM instrumentation (CPU2) 485. This dynamic change of the VM instrumentation occurs transparently to Guest 300 as represented by a change in operating state 490 from a first state (Si) to an immediately subsequent state (Si+1).
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According to one embodiment of the disclosure, based on information 500 associated with the suspicious object, the scheduler 180 may be configured to retrieve the VM(s) 2601-260i along with their corresponding instrumentation control logic 2501-250i. However, in lieu of retrieval by scheduler 180, instrumentation control logic 2501-250i may be pre-installed logic within replay analysis engine 190 or may be generated and loaded into the replay analysis engine 190 by other logic. As yet an alternative embodiment, a single instrumentation control logic may be configured to operate as a centralized monitoring agent for events from multiple VMs.
Upon commencing configuration of a virtual environment for processing the suspicious content, as an optional feature, the scheduler 180 may be adapted to upload initial VM configuration data 510 to instrumentation control logic 2501-250i via communication path 515. The initial VM configuration data 510 comprises information that defines the initial state for each of the installed VM(s) 2601-260i. For instance, initial VM configuration data 510 provided to instrumentation control logic 2501 may include a starting state for VM 2601. Additionally or in the alternative, initial VM configuration data 510 may include data representative of the current VM instrumentation(s) utilized by VM processes within the VM 2601. Such representative data may be used by the instrumentation control logic 2501 to determine an alternative VM instrumentation based on a first event 520 received from VM 2601 via communication path 525.
In response to detection of an event, instrumentation control logic 250i may generate a VM Instrumentation (VMI) Change message 530 via communication path 535. The VMI Change message 530 may include a command that, upon receipt, causes the VM 260i to generate a VMI Change Request message 540 to be provided to the scheduler 180 via communication path 545. Alternatively, the VMI Change message 530 may include information that identifies a particular VM instrumentation to be substituted by VM 260i for the current VM instrumentation. Receipt of the VMI Change Request message 540 causes the scheduler 180 to retrieve and load one or more VM instrumentations (VMI(s) 550) identified in message 540 via communication path 550.
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Similarly, upon receipt of another event, the instrumentation control logic is permitted to dynamically change the VM instrumentation. Again, based on the type of event detected (e.g., type of exploit detected, timeout, etc.), the instrumentation control logic selects from four potential VM instrumentations 6101 and 6103-6105. As shown, third VM instrumentation 6103 is selected and an associated change is requested by the VM. The process continues until the VM allocated time for execution has elapsed or the results of the VM analysis warranted early termination.
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In the event that there is sufficient time for the VM to conduct malware analysis on the content (block 720). If insufficient time is available to conduct the malware analysis, the adaptive VM instrumentation alternation mechanism is halted (block 760). If there is sufficient time to conduct the malware analysis and an exploit is detected, the characteristics of the detected exploit are analyzed (blocks 730 and 740). Based on these characteristics, the VM is subsequently loaded with a VM instrumentation targeted for further malware analysis that may be directed to the type of exploit or exploit types having some correlation with the detected exploit (block 750).
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Upon failing to detect the exploit being monitored, in the event that the VM allotted processing time has not elapsed, the VM is subsequently loaded with a second VM instrumentation for conducting replay operations replay operations on received JavaScript® code using a second type of JavaScript® engine (blocks 830, 840 and 850). Thereafter, malware analysis operations are performed by the second JavaScript® engine within the second VM instrumentation to monitor for an exploit causing an overflow condition of the first type of buffer (block 860). Thereafter, the VM analysis results are stored (block 870).
Upon detecting the exploit, in the event that the VM allotted processing time has not elapsed, the VM may be subsequently loaded with another VM instrumentation for conducting more detailed malware analysis directed to the detected exploit. However, upon failing to detect the exploit being monitored, in the event that the VM allotted processing time still has not elapsed, the VM is subsequently loaded with another VM instrumentation with perhaps another JavaScript® engine (block 880).
In the foregoing description, the invention is described with reference to specific exemplary embodiments thereof. It will, however, be evident that various modifications and changes may be made thereto without departing from the broader spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the appended claims. For instance, in lieu of or in addition to the MCD system 1101-1103 of
This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14/042,489, now U.S. Pat. No. 9,736,179, the entire contents of which are incorporated by reference herein.
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