YARA is a tool primarily used in malware research and detection.
| Designed by | Victor Alvarez |
|---|---|
| First appeared | 2013 |
| Stable release | 4.5.2[1] 
/ 10 September 2024 |
| Filename extensions | .yara |
| Website | virustotal |
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
editYARA 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
editYARA by default comes with modules to process PE, ELF analysis, as well as support for the open-source Cuckoo sandbox.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Release 4.5.2". 10 September 2024. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
- ^ "Welcome to YARA's documentation!". yara.readthedocs.io. Retrieved 2023-09-18.
- ^ "Release v1.7.1". GitHub.
- ^ Victor M. Alvarez [@plusvic] (22 September 2016). "@milliped @yararules YARA is an acronym for: YARA: Another Recursive Acronym, or Yet Another Ridiculous Acronym. Pick your choice" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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