Methods, media and systems for detecting anomalous program executions

1. A method for detecting anomalous program executions, comprising:

executing at least a part of a program in an emulator;

comparing a function call made in the emulator to a model of function calls for the at least a part of the program;

identifying the function call as anomalous based on the comparison; and

upon identifying the anomalous function call, notifying an application community that includes a plurality of computers of the anomalous function call.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising creating a combined model from at least two models created using different computers.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising creating a combined model from at least two models created at different times.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising modifying the function call so that the function call becomes non-anomalous.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising generating a virtualized error in response to the function call being identified as being anomalous.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the comparing compares the function call name and arguments to the model.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the model reflects normal activity of the at least a part of the program.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the model reflects attacks against the at least a part of the program.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising randomly selecting the model as to be used in the comparison from a plurality of different models relating to the program.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising randomly selecting a portion of the model to be used in the comparison.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method for detecting anomalous program executions, comprising:

executing at least a part of a program in an emulator;

comparing a function call made in the emulator to a model of function calls for the at least a part of the program;

identifying the function call as anomalous based on the comparison; and

upon identifying the anomalous function call, notifying an application community that includes a plurality of computers of the anomalous function call.

12. The medium of claim 11 , wherein the method further comprises creating a combined model from at least two models created using different computers.

13. The medium of claim 11 , wherein the method further comprises creating a combined model from at least two models created at different times.

14. The medium of claim 11 , wherein the method further comprises modifying the function call so that the function call becomes non-anomalous.

15. The medium of claim 11 , wherein the method further comprises generating a virtualized error in response to the function call being identified as being anomalous.

16. The medium of claim 11 , wherein the comparing compares the function call name and arguments to the model.

17. The medium of claim 11 , wherein the model reflects normal activity of the at least a part of the program.

18. The medium of claim 11 , wherein the model reflects attacks against the at least a part of the program.

19. The medium of claim 11 , wherein the method further comprises randomly selecting the model as to be used in the comparison from a plurality of different models relating to the program.

20. The medium of claim 11 , wherein the method further comprises randomly selecting a portion of the model to be used in the comparison.

21. A system for detecting anomalous program executions, comprising:

a digital processing device that:

executes at least a part of a program in an emulator;

compares a function call made in the emulator to a model of function calls for the at least a part of the program; and

identifies the function call as anomalous based on the comparison; and

upon identifying the anomalous function call, notifies an application community that includes a plurality of computers of the anomalous function call.

22. A method for detecting anomalous program executions, comprising:

modifying a program to include indicators of program-level function calls being made during execution of the program;

comparing at least one of the indicators of program-level function calls made in an emulator to a model of function calls for at least a part of the program; and

identifying a function call corresponding to the at least one of the indicators as anomalous based on the comparison.

23. The method of claim 22 , further comprising creating a combined model from at least two models created using different computers.

24. The method of claim 22 , further comprising creating a combined model from at least two models created at different times.

25. The method of claim 22 , further comprising modifying the function call so that the function call becomes non-anomalous.

26. The method of claim 22 , further comprising generating a virtualized error in response to the function call being identified as being anomalous.

27. The method of claim 22 , wherein the comparing compares the function call name and arguments to the model.

28. The method of claim 22 , wherein the model reflects normal activity of the at least a part of the program.

29. The method of claim 22 , wherein the model reflects attacks against the at least a part of the program.

30. The method of claim 22 , further comprising randomly selecting the model as to be used in the comparison from a plurality of different models relating to the program.

31. The method of claim 22 , further comprising randomly selecting a portion of the model to be used in the comparison.

32. A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method for detecting anomalous program executions, comprising:

modifying a program to include indicators of program-level function calls being made during execution of the program;

comparing at least one of the indicators of program-level function calls made in an emulator to a model of function calls for at least a part of the program; and

identifying a function call corresponding to the at least one of the indicators as anomalous based on the comparison.

33. The medium of claim 32 , wherein the method further comprises creating a combined model from at least two models created using different computers.

34. The medium of claim 32 , wherein the method further comprises creating a combined model from at least two models created at different times.

35. The medium of claim 32 , wherein the method further comprises modifying the function call so that the function call becomes non-anomalous.

36. The medium of claim 32 , wherein the method further comprises generating a virtualized error in response to the function call being identified as being anomalous.

37. The medium of claim 32 , wherein the comparing compares the function call name and arguments to the model.

38. The medium of claim 32 , wherein the model reflects normal activity of the at least a part of the program.

39. The medium of claim 32 , wherein the model reflects attacks against the at least a part of the program.

40. The medium of claim 32 , wherein the method further comprises randomly selecting the model as to be used in the comparison from a plurality of different models relating to the program.

41. The medium of claim 32 , wherein the method further comprises randomly selecting a portion of the model to be used in the comparison.

42. A system for detecting anomalous program executions, comprising:

a digital processing device that:

modifies a program to include indicators of program-level function calls being made during execution of the program;

compares at least one of the indicators of program-level function calls made in an emulator to a model of function calls for at least a part of the program; and

identifies a function call corresponding to the at least one of the indicators as anomalous based on the comparison.