Deep Discovery Inspector uses YARA rules to identify malware. YARA rules are malware detection patterns that are fully customizable to identify targeted attacks and security threats specific to your environment.

YARA rules are applied only to objects submitted to the internal Virtual Analyzer. No settings under YARA Rules apply to an external Virtual Analyzer nor Sandbox as a Service. For details about external analysis modules, refer to the applicable product Administrator's Guide.

Deep Discovery Inspector supports a maximum of 5,000 enabled YARA rules regardless of the number of YARA rule files. On the top-right corner of the YARA rule table, the Rules in use field indicates the number of YARA rules currently enabled in the system.

When integrated with Deep Discovery Director, Deep Discovery Director centrally manages all YARA rules and you must manage the YARA rules in the Deep Discovery Director management console. For details, see the Deep Discovery Director Administrator's Guide.

The following table shows information about YARA rule files.