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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2015
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kevin Alejandro Roundy, El Segundo, CA (US);
Jie Fu, Chengdu, CN;
Tao Cheng, Zigong, CN;
Zhi Kai Li, Zigong, CN;
Fanglu Guo, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Sandeep Bhatkar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for detecting anomalous network traffic are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for detecting anomalous network traffic comprising the steps of receiving a list including a plurality of processes and, for each process, a list of approved types of network traffic; monitoring network traffic of each process on the list of processes; upon detecting network traffic for a process on the list of processes, determining that the type of network traffic detected is not on the list of approved types for that process; and identifying the process as infected based on determining that the type of network traffic detected is not on the list of approved types for that process.