Patent 9807110 was granted and assigned to Vectra Networks Inc. on October, 2017 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method and system for detecting algorithm-generated domains (AGDs) is disclosed wherein domain names requested by an internal host are categorized or classified using curated data sets, active services (e.g. Internet services), and certainty scores to match domain names to domain names or IP addresses used by command and control servers.