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- Designed by
- Victor Alvarez
- Filename extensions
- .yara
- First appeared
- 2013
- Stable release
- 4.5.8 / 28 July 2026; 27 days ago (28 July 2026)
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Overview
History
- VirusTotal
- GitHub
- Rust Rust (programming language)
- Maintenance mode
Design
Advanced semantic analysis
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Map overview Semantic statistics
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YARA
Top relations
Important terminology Word statistics
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Important terminology
malware patterns strings github detection families expression rules boolean alvarez name virustotal victor first stable textual binary dna hex regex
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| YARA | Designed by | Victor Alvarez | 1.00 | infobox |
| YARA | Filename extensions | .yara | 1.00 | infobox |
| YARA | First appeared | 2013 | 1.00 | infobox |
| YARA | Stable release | 4.5.8 / 28 July 2026; 27 days ago (28 July 2026) | 1.00 | infobox |
| YARA | Website | virustotal.github.io/yara | 1.00 | infobox |
| 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 | 0.90 | text |
| YARA | related to Design | PE | 0.60 | section |
| YARA | related to Design | ELF | 0.60 | section |
| YARA | related to Design | Cuckoo | 0.60 | section |
| YARA | related to External links | GitHubYARA | 0.60 | section |
| YARA | related to history | Victor Alvarez | 0.60 | section |
| YARA | related to history | VirusTotal | 0.60 | section |
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