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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2016
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;
Abstract
A method for identifying malicious encrypted network traffic communicated via a network between a first and second computer system, the method including: monitoring network traffic over the network to detect a network connection as a new network connection; identifying characteristics of the network connection to determine a protocol of the network connection; retrieving a definition of a portion of network traffic for a network connection based on the determined protocol; evaluating Fourier transform coefficient values for each of a plurality of bytes in a portion of network traffic of the new network connection based on the retrieved definition; and comparing the evaluated coefficient values with a dictionary of one or more reference sets of coefficients, each of the one or more reference sets of coefficients being associated with a portion of network traffic of a malicious encrypted network connection, so as to determine if malicious encrypted network traffic is communicated over the network connection.