Introduction
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Kraken is a simple cross-platform Yara scanner that can be built for Windows, Mac, FreeBSD and Linux. It is primarily intended for incident response, research and ad-hoc detections (not for endpoint protection). Following are the core features:
Scan running executables and memory of running processes with provided Yara rules (leveraging ).
Scan executables installed for autorun (leveraging ).
Scan the filesystem with the provided Yara rules.
Report any detection to a remote server provided with a Django-based web interface.
Run continuously and periodically check for new autoruns and scan any newly-executed processes. Kraken will store events in a local SQLite3 database and will keep copies of autorun and detected executables.
Some features are still under work or almost completed:
Installer and launcher to automatically start Kraken at startup.
Download updated Yara rules from the server.
Kraken is released under the and is copyrighted to .
