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Expand Up @@ -35,6 +35,16 @@ malcontent has 3 modes of operation:

malcontent is at its best analyzing programs that run on Linux. Still, it also performs admirably for programs designed for other UNIX platforms such as macOS and, to a lesser extent, Windows.

## ⚠️ Malware Disclaimer ⚠️

Due to how malcontent operates, other malware scanners can detect malcontent as malicious.

Programs that leverage Yara rules will often see other programs that also use Yara rules as malicious due to the strings looking for problematic behavior(s).

For example, Elastic's agent has historically detected malcontent because of this: https://github.com/chainguard-dev/malcontent/issues/78*.

> \*Additional scanner findings can be seen in [this](https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/b6f90aa5b9e7f3a5729a82f3ea35f96439691e150e0558c577a8541d3a187ba4/detection) VirusTotal scan.

## Features

* 14,500+ [YARA](YARA) detection rules
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