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Configuring McAfee Advanced Threat

Defense for malware analysis

After you install McAfee Advanced Threat Defense Appliance on your network, you can configure it to

analyze malware. For this, you use the McAfee Advanced Threat Defense web application. You must

have at least the web-access role to configure malware analysis.

This section introduces you to the related terminologies and provides the procedures to set up McAfee

Advanced Threat Defense for malware analysis.

Contents

Terminologies

High-level steps for configuring malware analysis

How McAfee Advanced Threat Defense analyzes malware?

Managing analyzer profiles

Integration with McAfee ePO

Specify proxy server for internet connectivity

Configure the proxy DNS settings

Terminologies

Being familiar with the following terminologies facilitates malware analysis using McAfee Advanced

Threat Defense.

• Static analysis — When McAfee Advanced Threat Defense receives a supported file for analysis, it first

performs static analysis of the file. The objective is to check if it is a known malware in the shortest

possible time, and also to preserve the McAfee Advanced Threat Defense resources for dynamic

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