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Malware Detection with YARA Rules

From: What Are YARA Rules? (accessed by Benjamin Hobbs on 8/21/2023)

  • YARA - (Yet Another Ridiculous Acronym)

Threat Hunting using YARA

Question for Understanding

  1. What is the main goal of Threat Hunting and how is it different from traditional threat monitoring?
  2. What are the four types of YARA rules and what does each one of them use to identify and classify malicious software?
  1. How are YARA rules similar to how Anti-Virus programs detect malicious software?

Bookmark and Review

YARA Rules GitHub Project

  • This project covers the need of a group of IT Security Researchers to have a single repository where different Yara signatures are compiled, classified and kept as up to date as possible, and began as an open source community for collecting Yara rules.