US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Feb. 24 for "Heidi: ML on hypervisor dynamic analysis data for malware classification" (American, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,434, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Heidi: ML on hypervisor dynamic analysis data for malware classification" was invented by Sujit Rokka Chhetri (Santa Clara, Calif.), Akshata Krishnamoorthy Rao (Mountain View, Calif.), Daniel Raygoza (Seattle), Esmid Idrizovic (Trumau, Austria), William Redington Hewlett II (Mountain View, Calif.) 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 files. The method includes executing a sample in a virtual environment, and determining whet...