Patent Document ID: 9904955
Application ID: 14308686
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of analyzing and mitigating an electronic crime under investigation, comprising: maintaining a database that associates electronic crime attack signature data for each of a plurality of known electronic crime attacks with at least one of an individual and a group, analyzing, by one or more applications stored in a non-transitory memory and executed by a processor, at least one technique, wherein the analyzing comprises translating, by the one or more applications, an executable of a malware to a second version comprising assembly code of the malware or source code of the malware and analyzing, by the one or more applications, the second version of the malware to identify code attributes representing distinctive coding style preferences exhibited by a malware developer in coding the malware; identifying, by an inference engine application stored in a non-transitory memory and executed by a processor, at least one of a person of potential interest involved in committing the electronic crime under investigation or a group of potential interest involved in committing the electronic crime under investigation, the identifying comparing the identified distinctive coding style preferences of the electronic crime under investigation to the electronic crime signature data in the database to identify a known electronic crime attack corresponding to the electronic crime under investigation and the at least one person or group associated with the corresponding known electronic crime attack; and reporting, by a computer system, the electronic crime under investigation and the identified at least one person or group associated with the known electronic crime attack corresponding to the electronic crime under investigation.