Palo Alto Networks (israel Analytics) Ltd.

Palo Alto Networks Israel Services Ltd

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

Yinnon Meshi

Jonathan Allon

Idan Amit

Aviad Meyer

Eyal Firstenberg

Yaron Neuman

Asaf Dahan

Rony Brailovsky

Gal Itzhak

Dekel Paz

Keren Mizinski

Niv Sela

Methods, apparatus and computer software products implement embodiments of the present invention that include protecting a computer system, by collecting information from data traffic transmitted between multiple local nodes on a private data network and public IP addresses corresponding to multiple remote nodes on a public data network. DNS resolutions are detected in the collected information, each DNS resolution identifying a local node requesting the resolution with respect to a URI and a public IP address corresponding to the URI. Transmissions from the local nodes to the public IP addresses are detected in the collected information at respective times, and the detected DNS resolutions are compared to the detected transmissions so as to identify the transmissions from the local nodes to the public IP addresses that were not resolved by the DNS resolutions. Finally, a protective action is initiated with respect to at least some of the identified transmissions.

Malicious CandC channel to fixed IP detection

Methods, apparatus and computer software products implement embodiments of the present invention that include protecting a computer system, by collecting information from data traffic transmitted between multiple local nodes on a private data network and public IP addresses corresponding to multiple remote nodes on a public data network. DNS resolutions are detected in the collected information, each DNS resolution identifying a local node requesting the resolution with respect to a URI and a public IP address corresponding to the URI. Transmissions from the local nodes to the public IP addresses are detected in the collected information at respective times, and the detected DNS resolutions are compared to the detected transmissions so as to identify the transmissions from the local notes to the public IP addresses that were not resolved by the DNS resolutions. Finally, a protective action is initiated with respect to at least some of the identified transmissions.

Malicious C and C channel to fixed IP detection

A method, including receiving, from multiple sources, respective sets of incidents, and respective suspiciousness labels for the incidents. A set of rules are applied so as to assign training labels to respective incidents in a subset of the incidents in the received sets. For each given incident in the subset, the respective training label is compared to the respective suspiciousness label so as to compute a respective quality score for each given source. Any sources having respective label quality scores meeting a predefined criterion are identified, and a model for computing predicted labels is fit to the incidents received from the identified sources and the respective suspiciousness labels of the incidents. The model is applied to an additional incident received from one of the sources to compute a predicted label for the additional incident, and a notification of the additional incident is prioritized in response to the predicted label.

Network adaptive alert prioritization system

Methods, apparatus and computer program products implement embodiments of the present invention that include collecting data packets transmitted between multiple entities over a network, and grouping the packets at least according to their source and destination entities and their times, into connections to which the packets belong. Pairs of the connections are identified having identical source and destination entities and times that are together within a specified time window, and sets of features are generated for the identified pairs of the connections. The features in the pairs are evaluated in order to detect a given pair of connections indicating malicious activity, and an alert is generated for the malicious activity.

Bind shell attack detection

A method, including identifying, in network traffic during multiple periods, scans, each scan including an access of multiple ports on a given destination node by a given source node, and computing, for each given source in the scans, an average of destinations whose ports were accessed by the given source during any scan by the given source, and a fraction of periods when the given source accessed at least one of the destinations in at least one scan performed by the given source node. A whitelist is assembled sources for which one or more of the following conditions applies: the average of destinations accessed in the scans was greater than a first threshold, and the fraction of periods during which at least one destination was accessed in at least one scan was greater than a second threshold. Upon detecting a scan by any non-whitelisted node, a preventive action is initiated.

Malicious port scan detection using source profiles

A method, including identifying, in network data traffic, a set of pairs of source and destination nodes, each pair having a given source node, a given destination node, and one or more ports accessed in the traffic between the nodes in each pair, and computing, for each pair, a respective baseline that indicates a first number of the ports that source nodes other than the given source node in the pair accessed on the given destination node during a first period. For each pair, a respective test score is computed that indicates a difference between a second number of the ports that the given source node in the pair accessed on the given destination node during a second period and the baseline, and a preventive action is initiated with respect to the given source node in any of the pairs for which the test score is greater than a threshold.

Port scan detection using destination profiles

A method, including identifying, in network data traffic, multiple scans, each of the scans including an access, in the traffic, of multiple ports on a given destination node by a given source node during a time period. A group of high-traffic ports are identified in the traffic that include one or more ports that receive respective volumes of the traffic that exceed a threshold, and respective signatures are generated for the identified port scans that indicate the ports other than the high-traffic ports that were accessed in each of the port scans. A respective frequency of occurrence of each of the signatures over the set of the port scans is computed, and a whitelist of the signatures for which the respective frequency of occurrence is greater than a threshold is assembled. Upon detecting a port scan for which the respective signature is not whitelisted, a preventive action is initiated.

Scanner probe detection

A method, including collecting communication sessions, and generating samples from the sessions. Classifiers are applied to the samples, thereby computing a classifier prediction for each sample, and based on the classifier predictions, respective aggregated predictions are determined for the samples. Based on the classifier and the aggregated predictions, a precision and a hit rate for each classifier and a positive rate are computed, and based on the aggregated predictions, a subset of the samples are selected. Using the selected subset, a model including the classifiers is computed based on the precisions, the hit rates and the positive rate, and the model is applied to the samples, thereby updating the classifier and the aggregate predictions. The steps of computing the precision and the hit rate, selecting the subset, computing the model and applying the model are repeated until meeting a halting condition, and using the model, additional communication sessions are scanned.

Framework for semi-supervised learning when no labeled data is given

Methods, apparatus and computer software products implement embodiments of the present invention that include defining, for a given software category, respective, disjoint sets of communication ports that are used by each of a plurality of software systems in the given software category, including at least first and second disjoint sets. A set of port scans are identified in data traffic transmitted between multiple nodes that communicate over a network, each of the port scans including an access, in the data traffic, of a plurality of the communication ports on a given destination node by a given source node during a predefined time period. Upon detecting a port scan by one of the nodes including accesses of at least one of the communication ports in the first set and at least one of the communication ports in the second set, a preventive action is initiated.

Malicious port scan detection using port profiles

A method, including identifying, in network data traffic, multiple scans, each of the scans including an access, in the traffic, of a plurality of ports on a given destination node by a given source node during a predefined period. Respective first probabilities of being accessed during any given scan computed for the communication ports that were accessed in the identified scans, and a respective second probability that both of the ports in the pair were accessed during any given scan are computed for each pair of the ports in the identified scans. Upon detecting a scan by one of the nodes including accesses of first and second ports on a given destination node for which the respective second probability for the pair of the first and second ports is lower than a threshold dependent upon the respective first probabilities of the first and second ports, a preventive action is initiated.

Detecting outlier pairs of scanned ports

Methods, apparatus and computer software products implement embodiments of the present invention that include protecting a computing system by defining a list of network access messages that are indicative of human use of computing devices, and extracting, from data traffic transmitted over a data network connecting a plurality of the computing devices to multiple Internet sites, respective transmissions from the computing devices to the Internet sites. A given transmission including one of the network access messages in the list is detected in the transmissions from a given computing device, and the given computing device is classified as being operated by a human in response to detecting the given transmission. Upon identifying suspicious content in the transmissions from a subset of the computing devices that includes the given computing device, any suspicious transmissions from the given computing device are ignored in response to the classification.

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