yara-python VS signature-base

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

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yara-python signature-base
1 12
623 2,329
2.2% -
6.7 9.2
about 1 month ago 8 days ago
C YARA
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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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.

signature-base

Posts with mentions or reviews of signature-base. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-01.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

malware-ioc - Indicators of Compromises (IOC) of our various investigations

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"

Loki - Loki - Simple IOC and YARA Scanner

scapy - Scapy: the Python-based interactive packet manipulation program & library. Supports Python 2 & Python 3.

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

ThreatHunting - Tools for hunting for threats.

yara - The pattern matching swiss knife

reversinglabs-yara-rules - ReversingLabs YARA Rules

disas-bench - X86 disassembler benchmark

audit-node-modules-with-yara - Audit Node Module folder with YARA rules to identify possible malicious packages hiding in node_moudles