Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
DYNAMIC SELECTION AND GENERATION OF A VIRTUAL CLONE FOR DETONATION OF SUSPICIOUS CONTENT WITHIN A HONEY NETWORK

Abstract:

Techniques for dynamic selection and generation of detonation location of suspicious content with a honey network are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system for dynamic selection and generation of detonation location of suspicious content with a honey network includes a virtual machine (VM) instance manager that manages a plurality of virtual clones executed in an instrumented VM environment, in which the plurality of virtual clones executed in the instrumented VM environment correspond to the honey network that emulates a plurality of devices in an enterprise network; and an intelligent malware detonator that detonates a malware sample in at least one of the plurality of virtual clones executed in the instrumented VM environment.