YARA
| YARA | |
|---|---|
| Designed by | Victor Alvarez |
| First appeared | 2013 |
| Stable release | 4.5.4[1] 
/ 27 May 2025 |
| Filename extensions | .yara |
| Website | virustotal |
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
[edit]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of YARA: Another Recursive Acronym or Yet Another Ridiculous Acronym.[4] In 2024, Alvarez announced that YARA would be superseded by a rewrite called YARA-X, written in Rust.[5]. A first stable version of YARA-X was released in June 2025, marking the passage of the original YARA into maintenance mode.[6]
Design
[edit]YARA by default comes with modules to process PE, ELF analysis, as well as support for the open-source Cuckoo sandbox.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Release 4.5.4". 27 May 2025. Retrieved 1 June 2025.
- ^ "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.
- ^ https://virustotal.github.io/yara-x/blog/yara-is-dead-long-live-yara-x/
- ^ https://virustotal.github.io/yara-x/blog/yara-x-is-stable/
External links
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