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Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2015

Filed:

Nov. 25, 2009
Applicants:

Alicia Abella, Morristown, NJ (US);

David Gross, South River, NJ (US);

Philip Isenhour, Blacksburg, VA (US);

Jeremy Wright, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);

Inventors:

Alicia Abella, Morristown, NJ (US);

David Gross, South River, NJ (US);

Philip Isenhour, Blacksburg, VA (US);

Jeremy Wright, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/1408 (2013.01); H04L 43/028 (2013.01); H04L 43/045 (2013.01); H04L 43/067 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and apparatus for botnet analysis and visualization. Network traffic is filtered to compile a list of messages. The identified messages are tokenized, classified, and aggregated and changes in the frequency of tokenized messages are identified. A display of the tokenized messages is generated and displayed via a user interface. The user interface is configured to a allow a user to review data generated based on the filtered network traffic in order to detect potential botnet activity. User input may be used to adjust filtering and tokenization of the messages.


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