yaraparser

Python 3 tool to parse Yara rules (extension of yarabuilder)

NOTE: this is still in early development (lots of edge cases to work out still)

Installation

yarabuilder requires Python 3+:

python setup.py install

Usage

Via the command line:

$ yaraparser --help
usage: yaraparser [-h] --file FILE

Parse Yara rules into a dictionary or Python object

optional arguments:
  -h, --help   show this help message and exit
  --file FILE  File containing Yara rules to parse

Via Python:

>>> import yaraparser
>>>
>>> rules = yaraparser.ParsedYaraRules()
>>>
>>> with open("test.yar", "r") as infile:
...     raw_rules = infile.read()
...
>>> rules.parse_yara_rules(raw_rules)
>>>
>>> print(rules.get_yara_rules())