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+import logging
+import typing
+
+from volatility.framework import interfaces, renderers, layers
+from volatility.framework.configuration import requirements
+from volatility.framework.interfaces import plugins
+from volatility.framework.renderers import format_hints
+
+try:
+    import yara
+
+    has_yara = True
+except:
+    has_yara = False
+
+vollog = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class YaraScanner(interfaces.layers.ScannerInterface):
+
+    # yara.Rules isn't exposed, so we can't type this properly
+    def __init__(self, rules) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+        self._rules = rules
+
+    def __call__(self, data: bytes, data_offset: int) -> typing.Iterable[typing.Tuple[int, str]]:
+        for match in self._rules.match(data):
+            for offset, name, value in match.strings:
+                yield (offset + data_offset, name)
+
+
+class YaraScan(plugins.PluginInterface):
+    """Runs all relevant plugins that provide time related information and orders the results by time"""
+
+    @classmethod
+    def get_requirements(cls) -> typing.List[interfaces.configuration.RequirementInterface]:
+        return [requirements.TranslationLayerRequirement(name = 'primary',
+                                                         description = "Primary kernel address space",
+                                                         architectures = ["Intel32", "Intel64"]),
+                requirements.BooleanRequirement(name = "all",
+                                                description = "Scan both process and kernel memory",
+                                                default = False),
+                requirements.BooleanRequirement(name = "insensitive",
+                                                description = "Makes the search case insensitive",
+                                                default = False),
+                requirements.BooleanRequirement(name = "kernel",
+                                                description = "Scan kernel modules",
+                                                default = False),
+                requirements.BooleanRequirement(name = "wide",
+                                                description = "Match wide (unicode) strings",
+                                                default = False),
+                requirements.StringRequirement(name = "yara_rules",
+                                               description = "Yara rules (as a string)",
+                                               optional = True),
+                requirements.URIRequirement(name = "yara_file",
+                                            description = "Yara rules (as a file)",
+                                            optional = True),
+                requirements.IntRequirement(name = "max_size",
+                                            default = 0x40000000,
+                                            description = "Set the maximum size (default is 1GB)")
+                ]
+
+    def _generator(self):
+
+        layer = self.context.memory[self.config['primary']]
+        rules = None
+        if self.config.get('yara_rules', None) is not None:
+            rule = self.config['yara_rules']
+            if rule[0] not in ["{", "/"]:
+                rule = '"{}"'.format(rule)
+            if self.config.get('case', False):
+                rule += " nocase"
+            if self.config.get('wide', False):
+                rule += " wide ascii"
+            rules = yara.compile(sources = {'n': 'rule r1 {{strings: $a = {} condition: $a}}'.format(rule)})
+        elif self.config.get('yara_file', None) is not None:
+            rules = yara.compile(file = layers.ResourceAccessor().open(self.config['yara_file'], "rb"))
+        else:
+            vollog.error("No yara rules, nor yara rules file were specified")
+
+        for offset, name in layer.scan(YaraScanner(rules = rules), max_address = self.config['max_size']):
+            yield format_hints.Hex(offset), name
+
+    def run(self):
+        if not has_yara:
+            vollog.error("Please install Yara from https://plusvic.github.io/yara/")
+
+        return renderers.TreeGrid([('Offset', format_hints.Hex),
+                                   ('Rule', str)], self._generator())