US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Jan. 13 for "Malicious pattern extraction via fuzzing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,540, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Malicious pattern extraction via fuzzing" was invented by Zhibin Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Bo Qu (Saratoga, Calif.), Tao Yan (San Jose, Calif.) and ChienHua Lu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various techniques for malicious pattern extraction via fuzzing are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for malicious pattern extraction via fuzzing includes receiving a malicious sample (e.g., the malicious sample can be an executable file, such as a binary, script, etc., or a file that includes conte...