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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 09, 2013
Applicant:
Verisign, Inc., Reston, VA (US);
Inventors:
Matthew Thomas, Atlanta, GA (US);
Michael Noll, Vinelz, CH;
Assignee:
VERISIGN, INC., Reston, VA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/56 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/1408 (2013.01); H04L 61/1511 (2013.01);
Abstract
Techniques for inferring the existence of suspicious software by detecting multiple name server requests for the same sets of non-existent domains. Implementations can allow for detecting the existence of malware or other suspicious software without requiring reverse engineering of the malware's domain generation algorithm.