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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2023
Applicant:
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Tao Yan, San Jose, CA (US);
Edouard Bochin, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Bo Qu, Saratoga, CA (US);
Zhibin Zhang, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Michael Harbison, Salisbury, MD (US);
Assignee:
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/50 (2013.01); G06F 21/53 (2013.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/566 (2013.01); G06F 21/53 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present application discloses a method, system, and computer system for detecting Return Oriented Programming (ROP) exploits. The method includes (i) intercepting, by one or more processors, a memory attribute change function for a sample; (ii) determining if a return address is associated with a shellcode address, and (iii) in response to determining that the return address is associated with the shellcode address, determining that the sample is an ROP exploit.