To detect yet unclassified and unidentified malware, a great deal of research and analysis on malicious programs has been conducted by Anchiva's malware experts. File characteristics studied include file structure analysis, source of origin, means of transmission and other embedded malicious routines. These characteristics were then used to develop Anchiva's heuristic analysis technology which uses multiple file scoring methods to determine if a file may or may not have malicious content with a very high level of accuracy.

 

All the above process, including first heuristic checking of suspicious files, defining a malware and releasing signatures, can be automatically done within two hours. This enables Anchiva's products the ability to provide in-time and preactive zero-day protection of Internet application threats.

 

 

Fig: Heuristic Behavior Association Defenses Model

 

 

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