Threat Hunting with Yara

Introduction First off, YARA has one of the best names of a tool. It stands for “Yet Another Ridiculous Acronym.” Respect. There’s a good explanation of YARA here: https://docs.virustotal.com/docs/what-is-yara Essentially, YARA is an open-source tool designed to help malware researchers identify and classify malware. Think of it as a supercharged search engine for finding malicious software. It works by using rules that define patterns to look for in files. These patterns can be specific strings of text, hexadecimal values, or even regular expressions.