Best Chainsaw Alternatives & Competitors in 2026

ocaml-yara

An OCaml Ctypes wrapper for the YARA matching engine that enables malware identification capabilities in OCaml applications.

YARA-Forensics

A collection of YARA rules specifically designed for forensic investigations and malware analysis, providing pattern matching capabilities for files and memory dumps.

Linux Expl0rer

Easy-to-use live forensics toolbox for Linux endpoints with various capabilities such as process inspection, memory analysis, and YARA scanning.

VolatilityBot

VolatilityBot automates memory dump analysis by extracting executables, detecting code injections, and performing automated malware scanning using YARA and ClamAV.

malscan

Malscan is a tool to scan process memory for YARA matches and execute Python scripts.

Network Appliance Forensic Toolkit

A toolkit for forensic analysis of network appliances with YARA decoding options and frame extraction capabilities.

Google Security Operations

Cloud-native SIEM, SOAR, and threat intel platform for SecOps teams

Binary Defense Threat Hunting

A managed security service that uses hypothesis-based threat hunting to proactively discover hidden threats, create new detection rules, and improve overall security posture.

LogCraft Detection Engineering

Detection-as-code platform for managing detection rules across SIEM/EDR/XDR

detections.ai Detections

Community platform for sharing and creating detection rules with AI

Axur AI-Powered Cyber Threat Intelligence

AI-powered cyber threat intelligence platform with real-time monitoring

Hunters Next-Gen SIEM

Next-gen SIEM with AI-powered triage, automated investigation & detection

Pathlock Role Management

Automates role management across enterprise apps with SoD analysis and compliance

CardinalOps Threat-Informed Detection Engineering

AI-powered platform that automates detection engineering to expand SIEM & EDR coverage.

SOC Prime Threat Detection Marketplace

Threat detection marketplace with Sigma rules for SIEM and shift-left detection

SOC Prime Uncoder AI

IDE for detection engineering with cross-platform translation for 65+ SIEM/EDR/XDR

Red Canary Threat Intelligence

Threat intelligence service providing threat profiles and analytics for MDR

Cotool

AI agent platform for SecOps automation, detection tuning, and threat hunting

Defender Lens

Turn Any Threat into a Detection Rule

aDolus FACT - Malware Detection

FACT detects malware & ransomware in packages using AV scans & YARA rules.

Atomicorp Atomic ModSecurity Rules & WAF

ModSecurity-based WAF ruleset for detecting and blocking web app attacks.

Cythereal MAGIC™

Malware hunting platform that auto-generates YARA rules from shared code analysis.

Cythereal MAGIC EWS

Analyzes stopped attacks to auto-generate YARA rules and IoCs against APTs.

Query.AI Federated Detections

Runs security detections across distributed data sources without SIEM ingestion.

Sesame IT HOSHI

Curated attack use case platform that feeds threat scenarios into Jizô AI.

Tenzir TQL

Security data pipeline platform with a query language for log normalization and

Fig Security Operations Resilience

SOC resilience platform detecting & repairing drift in detection rules and pipelines.

Spectrum

Early-access threat detection platform targeting static & manual detection gaps.

Rilevera

AI platform for continuous detection rule validation, optimization & governance.

1stProtect.ai

Runtime enforcement platform with 22 modules on one SIGMA engine, offline-capable.

Anvilogic AI SOC

AI-powered SOC platform for detection engineering across SIEMs & data lakes

PhishingKit-Yara-Rules

A StalkPhish Project YARA repository for Phishing Kits zip files.

Sigma Query

Searchable repository of Sigma detection rules for threat hunting and SIEM

OCyara

OCyara performs OCR on images and PDF files to extract text content and scan it against Yara rules for malware detection.

Yara Pattern Scanner

A Windows context menu integration tool that scans files and folders for malware patterns, crypto signatures, and malicious documents using Yara rules and PEID signatures.

AttackRuleMap

A mapping tool that correlates MITRE ATT&CK techniques with atomic tests

Sublime Security Sublime Rules

Open-source detection rules for email attacks like BEC, phishing, and malware

Stamus Clear NDR Community

Open source Suricata-based NDR system with threat detection and analysis

InQuest Labs

The Trystero Project is a threat intelligence platform that measures email security efficacy and provides various tools and resources, while VMware Carbon Black offers endpoint protection and workload security solutions.

THOR Lite

A free, fast, and flexible multi-platform IOC and YARA scanner for Windows, Linux, and macOS.

Yara Manager

A program to manage yara ruleset in a database with support for different databases and configuration options.

Yabin

Yabin creates Yara signatures from malware to find similar samples.

yextend

yextend extends Yara's functionality by automatically handling archived and compressed content inflation, enabling pattern matching on files buried within multiple layers of archives.

YaraParser

Python 3 tool for parsing Yara rules with ongoing development.

Mquery

Blazingly fast Yara queries for malware analysts with an analyst-friendly web GUI.

Factual Rules Generator

An open source tool that generates YARA rules from installed software on running operating systems for efficient software identification in digital forensic investigations.

Yara Validator

A tool for validating and repairing Yara rules

CrowdFMS

CrowdFMS is a CrowdStrike framework that automates malware sample collection from VirusTotal using YARA rule-based notifications and the Private API system.