Network Defense Yara For Security Analysts
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Detecting malicious elements within files is a core security skill for incident responders, SOC analysts, threat intelligence analysts, malware analysts, and detection engineers alike. There are different ways to accomplish that goal, but none are more flexible or widely used as YARA.
YARA is a pattern-matching tool used to help identify and classify malware in a variety of scenarios. By writing YARA rules, security practitioners can detect whether malware exists within a group of files, triage a potentially compromised host, or identify common elements between samples to bolster threat intelligence.
The YARA syntax provides a simple and powerful framework for expressing detection logic for file content. Using the YARA executable, you can search for matches based on the rules you write across a single folder or entire system. When you write detection rules for YARA, you can apply those rules in a variety of scenarios and share the rules with your peers in the detection and threat intel communities.
“Most security practitioners should be familiar with the holy trinity of detection. That’s Suricata for network traffic, Sigma for logs, and YARA for files.”
YARA is the open-source standard for detecting malicious file-based content, but there has never been a course that takes a foundational approach to learning detection engineering through the lens of YARA…. until now.
I’m excited to offer an online course that will teach you how to interpret, build, and tune YARA rules to become a better detection engineer or analyst.
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