SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING SIGNATURES FROM CONTROLLED EXECUTION OF APPLICATIONS AND USING THEM ON TRAFFIC TRACES

Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system, and computer readable medium for classifying network traffic based on application signatures generated during a training phase. The application signatures are generated based on tokens extracted from a training set that is generated by a particular application during the training phase. Accordingly, a new token extracted in real-time from current network data is compared to the application signatures to determine if the current network data is generated by the particular application.