Selectively introducing security issues in a sandbox environment to elicit malicious application behavior

摘要

One example method includes configuring the virtual machine environment to introduce one or more security issues within the virtual machine environment, wherein each security issue elicits a particular malicious application to perform malicious actions when introduced during execution of the particular malicious application; executing a software application within the virtual machine environment; detecting at least one of the malicious actions being performed by the software application during execution within the virtual machine environment; and initiating an analysis action in response to detecting at least one of the malicious actions being performed by the software application.