Patents by Inventor Ruben Torres Guerra

Ruben Torres Guerra has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Systems and methods for reverse-engineering malware protocols
    Patent number: 10050982
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method for reverse-engineering malware protocols may include (1) decrypting encrypted network traffic generated by a malware program, (2) identifying at least one message type field in the decrypted network traffic, (3) identifying at least one message in the decrypted network traffic with the identified message type, and (4) inferring at least a portion of a protocol used by the malware program by analyzing the identified message to identify a field type for at least one data field of the identified message of the identified message type. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventors: Ruben Torres Guerra, Gaspar Modelo-Howard, Alok Tongaonkar, Lorenzo De Carli, Somesh Jha