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An Anonymous Coward writes:

YARA [github.com] version 4.0.0 [github.com] has been released.

YARA is the name of a tool primarily used in malware research and detection. YARA was originally developed by Victor Alvarez of VirusTotal. The name is either an abbreviation of YARA: Another Recursive Acronym, or Yet Another Ridiculous Acronym. YARA by default comes with modules to process PE, ELF analysis, as well as support for the open-source Cuckoo sandbox. [1]

YARA has been called, "The pattern matching swiss knife."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YARA [wikipedia.org]

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