yaraQA - YARA Rule Analyzer To Improve Rule Quality And Performance

YARA rule Analyzer to improve rule quality and performance

Why?

YARA rules can be syntactically correct but still dysfunctional. yaraQA tries to find and report these issues to the author or maintainer of a YARA rule set.

The issues yaraQA tries to detect are e.g.:

• rules that are syntactically correct but never match due to errors in the condition (e.g. rule with one string and 2 of them in the condition)
• rules that use string and modifier combinations that are …

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