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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2024
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ruian Duan, Fremont, CA (US);
Shu Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Daiping Liu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Fan Fei, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Qi Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US);
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
The present application discloses a method, system, and computer system for detecting DNS tunneling traffic. The method includes (i) obtaining non-DNS network traffic across an enterprise network, (ii) obtaining a hostname comprised in the non-DNS network traffic, (iii) querying a security service for a Domain Name System (DNS) tunneling attack verdict based at least in part on the hostname, (iv) determining whether the non-DNS network traffic is malicious traffic based at least in part on the DNS tunneling attack verdict, and (v) handling the non-DNS network traffic based at least in part on a determination of whether the non-DNS network traffic is malicious traffic based at least in part on the DNS tunneling attack verdict.