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Malpedia's yara-signator rules
This repository intends to simplify access to and synchronization of Malpedia's automatically generated, code-based YARA rules.
The rules are periodically created by Felix Bilstein, using the tool YARA-Signator - approach described in this paper.
The content of the rules
folder is also identical with what is returned by the respective Malpedia API call.
They are released under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, allowing commercial usage.
Latest Release: 2024-11-11
Across Malpedia, the current rule set achieves:
++++++++++++++++++ Statistics +++++++++++++++++++
Evaluation date: 2024-11-11
Samples (all): 14664
Samples (detectable): 5928
Families: 3259
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Families covered by rules: 1468
Rules without FPs: 1456
Rules without FNs: 1386
'Clean' Rules: 1378
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True Positives: 5714
False Positives: 40
True Negatives: 7240
False Negatives: 214
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PPV / Precision: 0.993
TPR / Recall: 0.964
F1: 0.978
with no false positives against the VirusTotal goodware data set.