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Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2026

Filed:

Jul. 31, 2024
Applicant:

Palo Alto Networks (Israel Analytics) Ltd., Tel Aviv, IL;

Inventors:

Or Chechik, Rishon LeZion, IL;

Ofir Ozer, Tel Aviv, IL;

Ori Damari, Ramat Gan, IL;

Yuval Zan, Givatayim, IL;

Assignee:

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

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/566 (2013.01); G06F 2221/034 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, storage systems and computer program products implement embodiments of the present invention for protecting a computer by first deploying in a memory of the computer a hooked version of a syscall used by an operating system kernel of the computer A notification of a call to the hooked version of the syscall from a user mode of the computer is received from the hooked version of the syscall, the notification including a return address in the memory and a set of features extracted from the call. The return address and the received features are analyzed so as to classify the call as benign or malicious, and an alert is generated for the computer upon classifying the new call as malicious.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Chechik, Or. (2026). Malicious direct syscall call detection (U.S. Patent No. 12625961). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12625961

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