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YARA Rule Authoring

Guides authoring of high-quality YARA-X detection rules for malware identification. Use when writing, reviewing, or optimizing YARA rules. Covers naming conventions, string selection, performance optimization, migration from legacy YARA, and false positive reduction. Triggers on: YARA, YARA-X, malware detection, threat hunting, IOC, signature, crx module, dex module.

Publisher / source

trailofbits/skills (found on skills.sh, an awesome list, the CSV list)

Upstream record

trailofbits/skills

Version

Version 2

Published

2026-11-02

Publication review

Approved for publication

Content fingerprint

ab54de171d618927b39c351e0e297496bf3306a86b63a84a53441f67b261455c