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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2015
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Abstract
A command and control server identifying apparatus provides data received by malware upon execution of the malware with a tag that allows to uniquely identify communication destination information of a source of the data, and tracks propagation of the data provided with the tag. Then, the command and control server identifying apparatus obtains a tag of data referred to by a branch instruction executed by the malware among tracked data. Then, the command and control server identifying apparatus identifies communication destination information of a command and control server that issues a command to the malware, based on communication destination information of a source associated with the obtained tag.