US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on April 7 for "Image visualization based method to detect cobaltstrike beacon HTTP C2 communications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,145, issued on April 7, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Image visualization based method to detect cobaltstrike beacon HTTP C2 communications" was invented by Ajaya Neupane (San Jose, Calif.), Yu Fu (Campbell, Calif.), Mei Wang (Saratoga, Calif.) and Anand Oswal (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and device for detecting Command Control (C2) traffic is disclosed. The method includes (i) converting a monitored traffic sample to an image representation, (ii) querying a classifier based at least in part on the image representation to obtain a traffic classification, (iii)...