Best Yabin Alternatives & Competitors in 2026

Google Security Operations

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

THOR Lite

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

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.

Mquery

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

CrowdFMS

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

CDI_yara

A collection of YARA rules for public use, built from intelligence profiles and file work.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security CCCS YARA Specification

Define and validate YARA rule metadata with CCCS YARA Specification.

base64_substring

A tool that generates YARA rules to search for specific terms within base64-encoded malware samples by enumerating all possible encoding variations.

YaraDbg

A free web-based Yara debugger for security analysts to write hunting or detection rules with ease.

YAYA - Yet Another Yara Automaton

Automatically curate open-source Yara rules and run scans with YAYA.

Yara-Repo

Collects Yara rules from over 150 free resources, a free alternative to Valhalla.

lw-yara

A Yara ruleset designed to detect PHP shells and other webserver malware for malware analysis and threat detection.

yara-rust

Bindings for the Yara library from VirusTotal with support for Yara v4.2 and various features like rule compilation and scanning.

InQuest YARA Rules

A collection of YARA rules for research and hunting purposes.

KLara

KLara is a distributed system written in Python that helps Threat Intelligence researchers hunt for new malware using Yara.

Yara Rules by Malgamy

Collection of Yara rules for file identification and classification

Androguard module for Yara

Integrates static APK analysis with Yara and requires re-compilation of Yara with the androguard module.

Fnord

Fnord is a pattern extraction tool that analyzes obfuscated code using sliding window techniques to identify frequent byte sequences and generate experimental YARA rules for malware analysis.

LOKI

LOKI is a simple IOC and YARA Scanner for Indicators of Compromise Detection.

Signature-Base

YARA signature and IOC database for LOKI and THOR Lite scanners with high quality rules and IOCs.

yarGen

A generator for YARA rules that creates rules from strings found in malware files while removing strings from goodware files.

AutoYara

AutoYara is a Java tool that automatically generates YARA rules from malware samples using biclustering algorithms to help analysts create detection rules for malware families.

Yara-Scanner

A Python-based Burp Suite extension that integrates Yara scanning capabilities for detecting patterns and signatures in web application traffic using custom Yara rules.

yaraScanParser

A parsing tool for Yara Scan Service's JSON output file to help maximize benefits and automate parsing of Yara Scan Service results.

Project Icewater

A project providing open-source YARA rules for malware and malicious file detection

ocaml-yara

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

Yara Rule Generator

A tool for quick and effective Yara rule creation to isolate malware families and malicious objects.

YARA-Forensics

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

YARA Silly Silly

A semi-automatic tool to generate YARA rules from virus samples.

Yara Rules Project

A repository of Yara signatures under the GNU-GPLv2 license for the cybersecurity community.

Yara Scanner

A tool for tracking, scanning, and filtering yara files with distributed scanning capabilities.

Yara-Rules Repository

Repository of YARA rules for Trellix ATR blogposts and investigations

BinaryAlert

BinaryAlert is an open-source serverless AWS pipeline that automatically scans files uploaded to S3 buckets with YARA rules and generates immediate alerts when malware is detected.

dnYara

A .Net wrapper library for the native Yara library with interoperability and portability features.

YARA Public YARA rules

A community-maintained repository of YARA rules for detecting and classifying malware based on patterns and characteristics.

OCyara

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

Private Yara Rules Repository

A repository of freely usable Yara rules for detection systems, with automated error detection workflows.

Malstrom

Cyber Intelligence Management Platform with threat tracking, forensic artifacts, and YARA rule storage.

Malware Signatures Overview

A collection of Yara signatures developed by Citizen Lab to detect malware used in targeted attacks against civil society organizations.

Burp-Yara-Rules

A collection of Yara rules for the Burp Yara-Scanner extension that helps identify malicious software and infected web pages during web application security assessments.

Shotgunyara

A tool that generates Yara rules for strings and their XOR encoded versions, as well as base64-encoded variations with different padding possibilities.

YARA Rules Collection

Collection of YARA signatures from recent malware research.

Yara VirusTotal Commenter

Scan files with Yara, match findings to VirusTotal comments.

YaraHunter

YaraHunter scans container images, running Docker containers, and filesystems using YARA rules to detect malware indicators and signs of compromise.

Detection Content Repository

Repository for detection content with various types of rules and payloads.

Detection and Hunting Signatures

A set of interrelated detection rules for improving detection and hunting visibility and context

ocaml-yara by Elastic

OCaml bindings to the YARA scanning engine for integrating YARA scanning capabilities into OCaml projects

Elastic Security YARA Rules

Signature-based YARA rules for detecting and preventing threats within Linux, Windows, and macOS systems.