YARA Files

The pattern matching swiss knife for malware researchers

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Name	Modified	Size	InfoDownloads / Week
Parent folder
yara-4.5.5-2368-win64.zip	2025-10-30	2.2 MB	34
yara-4.5.5-2368-win32.zip	2025-10-30	1.6 MB	2
README.md	2025-10-30	461 Bytes	0
YARA v4.5.5 source code.tar.gz	2025-10-30	2.2 MB	1
YARA v4.5.5 source code.zip	2025-10-30	2.5 MB	0
Totals: 5 Items		8.4 MB	37

Implement the --no-follow-symlinks option in Windows (6e11b5a).
BUGFIX: Revert YR_RE_SCAN_LIMIT back to 4096 (#2177).
BUGFIX: infinite loop while parsing corrupt resource directory in PE module (#2162).
BUGFIX: improved detection whether a string requires all matches (#2167).
BUGFIX: Heap overflow while loading hand-crafted compiled rules (#2178). Thanks to Momoko Shiraishi for the report.

Contributors: @secDre4mer @PeterMatula @wxsBSD

Source: README.md, updated 2025-10-30

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