MALWARE DOMAIN DETECTION USING PASSIVE DNS

Patent №

US 9,749,336

Granted

2017-08-29

Filed 2013

Owner

PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC.

Lab

AI components

5

ml · nlp · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13778001

Techniques for malware domain detection using passive Domain Name Service (DNS) are disclosed. In some embodiments, malware domain detection using passive DNS includes generating a malware association graph that associates a plurality of malware samples with malware source information, in which the malware source information includes a first domain; generating a reputation score for the first domain using the malware association graph and passive DNS information; and determining whether the first domain is a malware domain based on the reputation score for the first domain.

Machine learningNatural languageKnowledge representationPlanningAI hardwareH04L 63/14H04L 63/0236H04L 63/1416H04L 63/1441G06F 16/9024H04L 61/4511H04L 61/58

AI classification

Planning1.00
Machine learning1.00
Knowledge representation0.97
Natural language0.92
AI hardware0.77
Evolutionary computation0.01
Vision0.01
Speech0.00

Ownership

PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC.

assignment · 304850702

Assignors

ZHANG, YANXIN, WANG, XINRAN, XIE, HUAGANG, XU, WEI

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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