YARA

YARA
Designed byVictor Alvarez
First appeared2013
Stable release
4.5.0[1]  / 13 February 2024; 41 days ago (13 February 2024)
Filename extensions.yara
Websitevirustotal.github.io/yara

YARA is a tool primarily used in malware research and detection.

It provides a rule-based approach to create descriptions of malware families based on regular expression, textual or binary patterns. A description is essentially a YARA rule name, where these rules consist of sets of strings and a Boolean expression.[2]

History

YARA was originally developed by Victor Alvarez of VirusTotal and released on GitHub in 2013.[3] The name is an abbreviation of YARA: Another Recursive Acronym or Yet Another Ridiculous Acronym.[4]

Design

YARA by default comes with modules to process PE, ELF analysis, as well as support for the open-source Cuckoo sandbox.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Release 4.5.0". 13 February 2024. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
  2. ^ "Welcome to YARA's documentation!". yara.readthedocs.io. Retrieved 2023-09-18.
  3. ^ "Release v1.7.1". GitHub.
  4. ^ Victor M. Alvarez [@plusvic] (September 22, 2016). "@milliped @yararules YARA is an acronym for: YARA: Another Recursive Acronym, or Yet Another Ridiculous Acronym. Pick your choice" (Tweet) – via Twitter.

External links

  • yara on GitHub
  • YARA documentation
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