<s>
YARA	B-Application
is	O
the	O
name	O
of	O
a	O
tool	O
primarily	O
used	O
in	O
malware	O
research	O
and	O
detection	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
provides	O
a	O
rule-based	O
approach	O
to	O
create	O
descriptions	O
of	O
malware	O
families	O
based	O
on	O
regular	B-Language
expression	I-Language
,	O
textual	B-Application
or	O
binary	O
patterns	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
description	O
is	O
essentially	O
a	O
YARA	B-Application
rule	O
name	O
,	O
where	O
these	O
rules	O
consist	O
of	O
sets	O
of	O
strings	O
and	O
a	O
boolean	O
expression	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
YARA	B-Application
was	O
originally	O
developed	O
by	O
Victor	O
Alvarez	O
of	O
VirusTotal	B-Application
,	O
and	O
released	O
on	O
GitHub	B-Application
in	O
2013	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
name	O
is	O
either	O
an	O
abbreviation	O
of	O
YARA	B-Application
:	O
Another	O
Recursive	O
Acronym	O
,	O
or	O
Yet	O
Another	O
Ridiculous	O
Acronym	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
YARA	B-Application
by	O
default	O
comes	O
with	O
modules	O
to	O
process	O
PE	O
,	O
ELF	O
analysis	O
,	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
support	O
for	O
the	O
open-source	O
Cuckoo	O
sandbox	O
.	O
</s>
