YARA
YARA is the name of 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.[1]
History
YARA was originally developed by Victor Alvarez of VirusTotal, and released on GitHub in 2013.[2] The name is an abbreviation of Yet Another Recursive Acronym or Yet Another Ridiculous Acronym.[3]
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
- ^ "Welcome to YARA's documentation! — yara 4.2.2 documentation". yara.readthedocs.io. Retrieved 2022-07-15.
- ^ "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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