Hi All,

I don't have any samples on me at the moment, but I've seen a bunch of code 
obfuscation that capture groups would help with.
I'll let you know the next time I find an example where it would be useful

Thanks,
Dan N


On Wednesday, June 23, 2021 at 6:25:26 AM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote:

> I would also like to know which is the desired use of capture groups.
>
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 11:58 PM [email protected] <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>
>> Without details on the desired use of capture groups, this question is 
>> difficult to answer.  I recommend adding a detailed feature request that 
>> includes one or more examples that fail to match the target file without a 
>> capture group. 
>>
>> YARA moved away from PCRE/RE2 in YARA 2.0, which also had a significant 
>> performance increase.
>> https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara/tree/v2.0.0  
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApAFU5ROo10
>>
>> If you just want remove parts of the matched string, that can be done in 
>> yara-python.  If you want to include the regexp with the capture group in 
>> the rule itself, I'd recommend looking at how stoQ identifies the XOR key 
>> with yarascan. 
>>
>> On Tuesday, June 22, 2021 at 9:14:03 PM UTC+2 [email protected] wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is there a chance that capture groups will ever be implemented in yara?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Dan N
>>>
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