BSD Ports

security/yara 4.5.5 DragonFly

Malware identification and classification tool

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
BSD3CLAUSE
Categories
security
Package size
394.3 KiB, 2360.1 KiB installed

Description

"YARA is a tool aimed at helping malware researchers to identify and classify malware samples. With YARA you can create descriptions of malware families based on textual or binary patterns contained on samples of those families. Each description consists of a set of strings and a Boolean expression which determines its logic."

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 4.5.8, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
DragonFlysecurity/yara4.5.5 behind since 2026-09-07none known-[email protected]-
FreeBSDsecurity/yara4.5.5 behind since 2026-09-07none known-[email protected]-
OpenBSDsecurity/yara/main by name4.5.8 newestno data-The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <[email protected]>-
NetBSDsecurity/yara4.5.8 newest6 known--2026-09-13
MidnightBSDsecurity/yara4.5.0 behind since 2026-09-07no data-[email protected]2026-11-04
HardenedBSDsecurity/yara4.5.5 behind since 2026-09-07no data-[email protected]-
GhostBSDsecurity/yara4.5.5 behind since 2026-09-07no data-[email protected]-
OPNsensesecurity/yara4.5.5 behind since 2026-09-07no data-[email protected]-

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Version history 1

  1. 4.5.5

Upstream's version as each commit to the port's Makefile set it, or as this site first saw it in the system's packages; the tree's own revisions are not versions here.

Install

Binary package:

pkg install yara

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/security/yara && make install clean

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

Dependencies

Run dependencies 2
Required by 1