Mandiant, Inc.
Distributed malware detection system and submission workflow thereof

Abstract:

A submission process for a malware detection system including one or more sensors and a cluster including one or more computing nodes is described. The process includes the sensor that determines whether a prior malware analysis has been conducted on any previously submitted object matching the object under analysis. If not, the process determines whether the object is suspicious, namely a first probability of the first object being associated with malware. If suspicious, metadata associated with the suspicious object is sent to an analysis coordinator of a first computing node of the cluster. The metadata is used in determining whether a prior malware analysis has been previously conducted within the cluster on any object that matches the suspicious object. The metadata is also used in fetching, by an object analyzer of the same or a different computing node of the cluster, the suspicious object from the sensor for malware analysis.