Features
Everything you need, nothing you don't
Syntax Highlighting
YaraEditor is a full IDE for YARA. Write rules with syntax highlighting for better visibility, quickly jump to a rule by name or to another file, and start from a default template. It verifies your syntax and highlights errors and warnings — no extra tool needed.
- Highlighted as you type.
- Keywords, strings and identifiers each get their own colour, so a rule's shape is readable at a glance.
- Jump to any rule.
- Go straight to a rule by name, or to another file, without scrolling through a wall of text.
- Errors caught inline.
- Syntax is checked as you write, with errors and warnings marked on the line that caused them.
Full Testing Environment
Test your rules locally against a wide variety of items: files, entire folders, text (ANSI/Unicode) and process memory. If tests fail, simply fix and re-run. Simple as that.
- Test before you publish.
- Run a rule locally and see what it matches, instead of finding out once it is live.
- More than files.
- Test against files, whole folders, ANSI or Unicode text, and process memory.
- Fix and re-run.
- A failing test points at the rule that missed, so the loop from edit to result stays short.
And more
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Compile & Export
When everything works, use YaraEditor to package your rules. Export them as text (yara files), or separately- or package-compiled. The ultimate tool for anyone writing or working with YARA rules.
What users say
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The all-in-one YARA toolset
“In my company several researchers work with YARA rules. We used to write them in notepad and had to publish before knowing if they were valid and matching. Someone recommended YaraEditor and it does a great job! Now all my researchers use it — we test locally and only valid rules make it to publication. A great improvement in effort and server costs.”
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Latest version · v4.2.1
- OS:
- From Windows 7 SP1 to Windows 11
- Arch:
- 32-bit, 64-bit & ARM64
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