Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Identifying malware-suspect end points through entropy changes in consolidated logs
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Application No.: US15476212Application Date: 2017-03-31
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Publication No.: US10440037B2Publication Date: 2019-10-08
- Inventor: Peter Thayer , Gabriel G. Infante-Lopez , Leandro J. Ferrado , Alejandro Houspanossian
- Applicant: McAfee, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: McAfee, LLC
- Current Assignee: McAfee, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; G06N20/00

Abstract:
Detecting a malware attack includes monitoring an event log of a first device, wherein the event log identifies events indicating that the first device is likely compromised, determining an expected rate of log entries during a time window, identifying that an actual rate of log entries during the time window satisfies a threshold, determining, in response to the identifying, that the first device is a compromised device, and performing an action in response to determining that the first device is a compromised device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180288074A1 IDENTIFYING MALWARE-SUSPECT END POINTS THROUGH ENTROPY CHANGES IN CONSOLIDATED LOGS Public/Granted day:2018-10-04
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