Patents by Inventor Ajaya Neupane

Ajaya Neupane 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).

  • COBALT STRIKE BEACON HTTP C2 HEURISTIC DETECTION
    Publication number: 20240039889
    Abstract: Techniques for Cobalt Strike Beacon HTTP C2 heuristic detection are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for Cobalt Strike Beacon HTTP C2 heuristic detection includes monitoring HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) network traffic at a firewall; prefiltering the monitored HTTP network traffic at the firewall to select a subset of the HTTP network traffic to forward to a cloud security service; determining whether the subset of the HTTP network traffic is associated with Cobalt Strike Beacon HTTP C2 traffic activity based on a plurality of heuristics; and performing an action in response to detecting the Cobalt Strike Beacon HTTP C2 traffic activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Yanhui Jia, Christian Elihu Navarrete Discua, Durgesh Madhavrao Sangvikar, Ajaya Neupane, Yu Fu, Shengming Xu
  • Cobalt strike beacon HTTP C2 heuristic detection
    Patent number: 11770361
    Abstract: Techniques for Cobalt Strike Beacon HTTP C2 heuristic detection are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for Cobalt Strike Beacon HTTP C2 heuristic detection includes monitoring HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) network traffic at a firewall; prefiltering the monitored HTTP network traffic at the firewall to select a subset of the HTTP network traffic to forward to a cloud security service; determining whether the subset of the HTTP network traffic is associated with Cobalt Strike Beacon HTTP C2 traffic activity based on a plurality of heuristics; and performing an action in response to detecting the Cobalt Strike Beacon HTTP C2 traffic activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Yanhui Jia, Christian Elihu Navarrete Discua, Durgesh Madhavrao Sangvikar, Ajaya Neupane, Yu Fu, Shengming Xu
  • DEEP LEARNING PIPELINE TO DETECT MALICIOUS COMMAND AND CONTROL TRAFFIC
    Publication number: 20230231857
    Abstract: Detection of command and control malware is disclosed. A network traffic session is monitored. Automatic feature identification for real-time malicious command and control traffic detection based on a request header of the monitored network traffic session using a deep learning model is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Ajaya Neupane, Yuwen Dai, Stefan Achleitner, Yu Fu, Shengming Xu