Patent Document ID: 8707441
Application ID: 12858239

Base Claim:
1. A method for identifying optimized malicious search engine results comprising: receiving a search item result; analyzing, using at least one computer processor of a server, the search item result in a secure environment to detect malware hidden using network redirection, wherein analyzing comprises automatically navigating to a network location associated with the search item result using a network request generated by the server and configured to appear to the network location as a network request from a user of the search result; determining that the search item result is associated with malware; and providing an indicator that the search item result is associated with malware.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the network request comprises a network request containing at least one of: a referring search engine Uniform Resource Locator (URL); a user agent set as a browser; and a source id set as a browser.