Patent ID: 9591015
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. An electronic device, comprising: a traffic analysis controller including a first connector, a first processing unit and a first memory communicatively couple to the first processing unit, the first memory including (1) a filtering logic configured to receive a first plurality of objects and filter the first plurality of objects by identifying a second plurality of objects as objects of interest, the second plurality of objects being a subset of the first plurality of objects and being lesser or equal in number to the first plurality of objects and (2) a static analysis logic configured to determine whether at least a first object of the second plurality of objects includes one or more characteristics associated with a malicious attack; and a host including a second connector communicatively coupled to the first connector of the traffic analysis controller via a transmission medium, the host further includes (i) a second processing unit being different and remotely located from the first processing unit and (ii) a second memory communicatively coupled to the second processing unit, the second memory including a virtual execution logic that includes at least one virtual machine configured to process content within at least a second object of the second plurality of objects, the virtual execution logic configured to monitor for behaviors during the processing of the second object to determine whether the second object has one or more characteristics associated with a malicious attack.