support wildcards and skips for bytes feature
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enhancement
- Dominant language
- Python
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Description
Add support for wildcards and skips for `bytes` feature similar to [Yara hexadecimal strings](https://yara.readthedocs.io/en/stable/writingrules.html#hexadecimal-strings).
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the requested bytes feature and the linked YARA hexadecimal-strings documentation to understand the intended wildcard and skip syntax. Trace the bytes feature's existing matching behavior, then verify that wildcard and skip patterns match the corresponding YARA semantics.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- reverse-engineering
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100