US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Feb. 11 for "Identifying malware based on system API function pointers" (American, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,044, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Identifying malware based on system API function pointers" was invented by Robert Jung (Albuquerque, N.M.), Daniel Raygoza (Seattle), Michael S. Hughes (Davenport, Fla.) and Esmid Idrizovic (Trumau, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for identifying malware based on system API function pointers are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for identifying malware based on system API function pointers includes monitoring changes in memory during execution of a malware sample in a computing environment;...