yara-python VS scapy

Compare yara-python vs scapy and see what are their differences.

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yara-python scapy
1 26
623 10,028
2.2% 1.8%
6.7 9.3
about 1 month ago 6 days ago
C Python
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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yara-python

Posts with mentions or reviews of yara-python. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-23.
  • Pros and Cons of Rust for Cybersecurity
    4 projects | /r/rust | 23 Feb 2022
    But, due to the young ecosystem, Rust isn't often the best choice for the 2nd category. There are exceptions: while working on a ROP exploitation CLI tool, I was surprised to find the top 3 fastest x86-64 disassemblers are all written in Rust. But other languages just have more mature security ecosystems. Python in particular has some amazing libraries like scapy and bindings for yara.

scapy

Posts with mentions or reviews of scapy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-15.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing yara-python and scapy you can also consider the following projects:

signature-base - YARA signature and IOC database for my scanners and tools

pyshark - Python wrapper for tshark, allowing python packet parsing using wireshark dissectors

awesome-yara - A curated list of awesome YARA rules, tools, and people.

pySerial - Python serial port access library

a-ray-grass - a-ray-grass is a yara module that provides support for DCSO-format bloom filters in yara. In the context of hashlookup, it allows quickly discard known files "pour séparer le grain de l'ivraie"

impacket - Impacket is a collection of Python classes for working with network protocols. [Moved to: https://github.com/SecureAuthCorp/impacket]

xgadget - Fast, parallel, cross-variant ROP/JOP gadget search for x86/x64 binaries.

keyboard - Hook and simulate global keyboard events on Windows and Linux.

yara - The pattern matching swiss knife

RustScan - 🤖 The Modern Port Scanner 🤖

disas-bench - X86 disassembler benchmark

elmocut - Eye candy ARP spoofer for Windows