US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on May 27 for "Detecting Microsoft .NET malware using machine learning on .NET structure" (American, Israeli, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,651, issued on May 27, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Detecting Microsoft .NET malware using machine learning on .NET structure" was invented by Akshata Krishnamoorthy Rao (Mountain View, Calif.), Yaron Samuel (Tel Aviv, Israel), Dominik Reichel (Kleive, Germany) and Robert Jung (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a method, system, and computer system for detecting malicious.NET files. The method includes receiving a sample that comprises a.NET file, obtaining information pertaining to common language runtime (CLR) metadata and streams associated with th...