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Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2025

Filed:

Jul. 13, 2021
Applicant:

Zscaler, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Rubin Azad, Milpitas, CA (US);

Deepen Desai, San Ramon, CA (US);

Narinder Paul, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Zscaler, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/40 (2022.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/1416 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); H04L 63/0236 (2013.01); H04L 63/1425 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods include, responsive to starting a plurality of listener modules, receiving a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for a site on the Internet into a database; loading the URL; receiving artifacts based on the loading; using the plurality of listener modules to run rules based on the received artifacts; scoring the URL based on the rules and the received artifacts; and determining whether the URL is one of benign, suspicious, or malicious based on the scoring. The steps can include any of blocking the URL, allowing the URL, further analyzing the URL, adding the URL to a whitelist or blacklist, and providing a notification, based on whether the URL is benign, suspicious, or malicious.


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