Patent Document ID: 20160323295
Application ID: 14698534
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of mitigating risk of a cyberattack on an information technology asset, comprising: determining by a computer system a value of a plurality of characteristics of a malware software item, where the characteristics comprise at least two of a file path identified in the malware software item, a file name identified in the malware software item, a name of an author of the malware software item, an identity of a compiler used to compile the malware software item, a domain name identified in the malware software item, an internet protocol address identified in the malware software item, an email address identified in the software item, and an identity of a programming language used to create the malware software item; determining by the computer system a plurality of hashes of the malware software item, wherein each of the hashes corresponds to separate blocks of the malware software item; comparing the malware software item by the computer system to a plurality of malware families, wherein each of the characteristics of the malware software item is compared to a corresponding characteristic of each of the malware families and each of the hashes of the malware software item is compared to a corresponding hash associated with the malware families; based on comparing the malware software item to the malware families, associating the malware software item to one of the malware families; and based on the malware family to which the malware software item is associated, taking action to mitigate vulnerability of the information technology asset to the malware software item.