US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Oct. 14 for "Deobfuscating and decloaking web-based malware with abstract execution" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,476, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Deobfuscating and decloaking web-based malware with abstract execution" was invented by William Russell Melicher (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Oleksii Starov (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for deobfuscating and decloaking web-based malware with abstract execution is disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for deobfuscating and decloaking web-based malware with abstract execution includes receiving a sample; performing an abstract execution of a script included in the sample; identifying the...