Patent ID: 8997219
Filing Date: 2015-03-31
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: adapting, by a digital device, a portable document format (PDF) parser to evaluate a PDF document received over a network, the PDF parser to (i) examine a portion of a body section of the PDF document where the portion of the body section of the PDF document is lesser in size than an entirety of the body section of the PDF document and (ii) determine if one or more suspicious characteristics indicative of malicious network content are included in the portion of the body section of the PDF document; and when the portion of the body section of the PDF document is determined to include one or more suspicious characteristics indicative of malicious network content, providing the portion of the body section of the PDF document to one or more virtual machines associated with the digital device to verify the inclusion of malicious network content in the portion of the body section of the PDF document, and wherein verification of the inclusion of the malicious network content comprises execution of a PDF reader application by the one or more virtual machines to process the portion of the body section of the PDF document so as to determine if the portion of the body section of the PDF document includes malicious network content.