Installation and basic use on Linux
Package
sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt install yara
From source
Use if installing package does not work.
sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y
Install dependencies:
sudo apt install automake libtool make gcc flex bison libssl-dev libjansson-dev libmagic-dev pkg-config
Download the latest release (at time of writing is 4.2.3):
wget https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara/archive/v4.2.3.tar.gz
Extract the tar.gz:
tar -zxvf v4.2.3.tar.gz
Compile and install:
cd yara-4.2.3
chmod +x configure
./configure
chmod +x bootstrap.sh
./bootstrap.sh
make
sudo make install