Threat identification and analysis are very important for keeping systems and networks safe in the ever-changing world of cybersecurity. YARA is an open-source tool that has become an essential tool for cybersecurity experts. It can be used to identify and classify malware samples. This article is a complete guide that goes over YARA and all …
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THE YARALYZER : Visually Inspect And Force Decode YARA And Regex Matches Found In Binary DATA And Text Data, With Colors
THE YARALYZER visually inspect all of the regex matches (and their sexier, more cloak and dagger cousins, the YARA matches) found in binary data and/or text. See what happens when you force various character encodings upon those matched bytes. With colors. Quick Start pipx install yaralyzer # Scan against YARA definitions in a file: yaralyze …
Kraken : Cross Platform Yara Scanner Written In Go
Kraken is a simple cross-platform Yara scanner that can be built for Windows, Mac, FreeBSD and Linux. It is primarily intended for incident response, research and ad-hoc detections (not for endpoint protection). Following are the core features: Scan running executables and memory of running processes with provided Yara rules (leveraging go-yara). Scan executables installed for …
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Spyre : Simple YARA-Based IOC Scanner
Spyre is a simple host-based IOC scanner built around the YARA pattern matching engine and other scan modules. The main goal of this project is easy ope-rationalization of YARA rules and other indicators of compromise. Users need to bring their own rule sets. The awesome-yara repository gives a good overview of free yara rule sets …
IRFuzz : Simple Scanner with Yara Rules
IRFuzz is a simple scanner with yara rules for document archives or any files. Install 1. Prerequisites Linux or OS X Yara: just use the latest release source code, compile and install it (or install it via pip install yara-python) Yara Rules – You may download yara rules from here or import your own custom …
Yarasafe : SAFE Embeddings To Match Functions In Yara
YARASAFE is for automatic binary function similarity checks with Yara. SAFE is a tool developed to create Binary Functions Embedding developed by Massarelli L., Di Luna G.A., Petroni F., Querzoni L. and Baldoni R. You can use SAFE to create your function embedding to use inside yara rules. If you are interested take a look …
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Mquery : YARA Malware Query Accelerator
Mquery can be used to search through terabytes of malware in a blink of an eye: Ever had trouble searching for particular malware samples? Our project is an analyst-friendly web GUI to look through your digital warehouse. Demo Take a look at https://mquery.tailcall.net for a quick demo. Unfortunately, you won’t find any actual malware there. …
Fnord : Pattern Extractor for Obfuscated Code
Fnord is a pattern extractor for obfuscated code. It has two main functions: Extract byte sequences and create some statistics Use these statistics, combine length, number of occurrences, similarity and keywords to create a YARA rule. Fnord processes the file with a sliding window of varying size to extract all sequences of with a minimum …
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