Trend Micro Predictive Machine Learning (PML) uses advanced machine learning technology
to
correlate threat information and perform in-depth file analysis to detect emerging
unknown
security risks through digital fingerprinting, application programming interface (API)
mapping,
and other file features.
In File Security SDK and Virtual Appliance, when PML detects an unknown or low-prevalence
file,
the security agent scans the file using the Advanced Threat Scan Engine (ATSE) to
extract file
features and sends the report to the PML engine hosted on the Trend Micro Smart Protection
Network (SPN). Through use of malware modeling, PML compares the sample to the malware
model,
assigns a probability score, and determines the probable malware type that the file
contains.