Patent ID: 8990945
Filing Date: 2015-03-24
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A system for detecting malicious advertising content, comprising: a computer processor device; an anti-malvertising module executing on the computer processor device and configured to: periodically request scanning of a plurality of web pages by a plurality of virtual machines, the plurality of virtual machines configured to emulate presentation of the plurality of web pages using different user profile information in order to identify malicious advertising content for different web pages; detect a plurality of malicious advertisements provided while emulating presentation of the plurality of web pages; identify an ad network providing the plurality of malicious advertisements; calculate a historical rate of compromise for the ad network; determine that the historical rate of compromise exceeds a predefined limit; increase a scanning frequency for content associated with the ad network based on determining that the historical rate of compromise exceeds the predefined limit; and periodically request scanning of the plurality of web pages by the plurality of virtual machines according to the increased scanning frequency.