ClaudSkills / Security / malware-analysis

Yara Authoring

Quality score: 85/100  ·  Category: Security  ·  Sub-category: malware-analysis
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Write and test YARA rules for malware detection and threat hunting. Use when creating YARA signatures, detecting malware families, scanning files or memory for indicators of compromise, or building detection rules for threat intelligence.

What this skill does

Yara Authoring is a well-rated Claude Code skill (quality score 85/100) in the malware-analysis sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/yara-authoring/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when creating YARA signatures, detecting malware families, scanning files or memory for indicators of compromise, or building detection rules for threat intelligence.

Who uses this skill

The Yara Authoring skill is built for security engineers, penetration testers, DevSecOps practitioners, and development teams hardening codebases and infrastructure. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/yara-authoring
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/yara-authoring/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/yara-authoring/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/yara-authoring/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/yara-authoring/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\yara-authoring\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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