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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2021

Filed:

Aug. 26, 2019
Applicant:

Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Zhi Xu, Cupertino, CA (US);

Zihang Xiao, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Assignee:

Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 16/28 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 16/285 (2019.01);
Abstract

A first mobile application is received. A reversing operation is performed on the first mobile application. A static analysis engine is used to determine a plurality of libraries included in the mobile application. Each library included in the plurality of libraries is categorized. A determination that the first mobile application is similar to a second mobile application based at least in part on a comparison of the respective categorizations of the respective libraries included in the respective first and second mobile applications. Commonality in the libraries of the two mobile applications can be used for a variety of purposes including detecting repackaging and also common authorship.


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