Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Passive decryption of encrypted traffic to generate more accurate machine learning training data
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Application No.: US16701373Application Date: 2019-12-03
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Publication No.: US11196546B2Publication Date: 2021-12-07
- Inventor: Blake Harrell Anderson , Andrew Chi , David McGrew , Scott William Dunlop
- Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Behmke Innovation Group LLC
- Agent James M. Behmke; Jonathon P. Western
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; H04W72/04 ; H04L9/08 ; G06N5/02

Abstract:
In one embodiment, an apparatus captures a memory dump of a device in a sandbox environment executing a malware sample. The apparatus identifies a cryptographic key based on a particular data structure in the captured memory dump. The apparatus uses the identified cryptographic key to decrypt encrypted traffic sent by the device. The apparatus labels at least a portion of the decrypted traffic sent by the device as benign. The apparatus trains a machine learning-based traffic classifier based on the at least a portion of the decrypted traffic sent by the device and labeled as benign.
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