Patents by Inventor Fahim H. Abbasi

Fahim H. Abbasi 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).

  • Leveraging behavior-based rules for malware family classification
    Patent number: 10176321
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a malware classification scheme operating with an electronic device, configured with one or more hardware processors and a memory that stores the software handling the malware classification scheme that is conducted through analysis of behavior-based rules, is described. This malware classification scheme (i) conducts a determination whether a sequence of rules correspond to potential malicious behaviors detected during analysis of a malware sample within one or more virtual machines, and in response to determining that the sequence of rules corresponds to potential malicious behaviors, (ii) conducts an attempt to classify the malware sample to at least one known malware family based on an analysis of the sequence of rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: FireEye, Inc.
    Inventors: Fahim H. Abbasi, Abdul Salam, Farrukh Shahzad
  • LEVERAGING BEHAVIOR-BASED RULES FOR MALWARE FAMILY CLASSIFICATION
    Publication number: 20170083703
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a malware classification scheme operating with an electronic device, configured with one or more hardware processors and a memory that stores the software handling the malware classification scheme that is conducted through analysis of behavior-based rules, is described. This malware classification scheme (i) conducts a determination whether a sequence of rules correspond to potential malicious behaviors detected during analysis of a malware sample within one or more virtual machines, and in response to determining that the sequence of rules corresponds to potential malicious behaviors, (ii) conducts an attempt to classify the malware sample to at least one known malware family based on an analysis of the sequence of rules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Fahim H. Abbasi, Abdul Salam, Farrukh Shahzad