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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2023
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Qian Feng, Mountain View, CA (US);
Christian Elihu Navarrete Discua, San Jose, CA (US);
Yu Fu, Campbell, CA (US);
Ajaya Neupane, San Jose, CA (US);
Edouard Bochin, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A system, method, and device for detecting Command and Control (C2) traffic is disclosed. The method includes (i) converting, by one or more processors, a header for network traffic to a header representation having a smaller dimensionality than the header, (ii) querying a classifier based at least in part on the header representation to obtain a traffic classification, (iii) automatically detecting C2 traffic based at least in part on the traffic classification, and (iv) handling the network traffic based at least in part on the traffic classification.