diff --git a/security/yara/Makefile b/security/yara/Makefile
index 1ca25e8cb6dd..3af575048656 100644
--- a/security/yara/Makefile
+++ b/security/yara/Makefile
@@ -1,27 +1,27 @@
 PORTNAME=	yara
-DISTVERSION=	4.1.1
+DISTVERSION=	4.2.3
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
 CATEGORIES=	security
 
 MAINTAINER=	antoine@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Malware identification and classification tool
 
 LICENSE=	BSD3CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
 
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libjansson.so:devel/jansson
 
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	VirusTotal
 
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
 CONFIGURE_ARGS=	--enable-cuckoo --enable-dex --enable-dotnet --enable-macho --enable-magic
 INSTALL_TARGET=	install-strip
 TEST_TARGET=	check
 USES=		alias autoreconf cpe libtool localbase pathfix pkgconfig ssl
 CPE_VENDOR=	virustotal
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 CPPFLAGS+=	-isystem ${OPENSSLINC}
 LIBS+=		-L${OPENSSLLIB}
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/security/yara/distinfo b/security/yara/distinfo
index b641fe6dcb5b..05043a40a39b 100644
--- a/security/yara/distinfo
+++ b/security/yara/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1621957935
-SHA256 (VirusTotal-yara-v4.1.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 5f85c69606fad5cdb42e8f8101c96f6962a4928667395d9471e5aaea961e9b1d
-SIZE (VirusTotal-yara-v4.1.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 936115
+TIMESTAMP = 1660726486
+SHA256 (VirusTotal-yara-v4.2.3_GH0.tar.gz) = 1cd84fc2db606e83084a648152eb35103c3e30350825cb7553448d5ccde02a0d
+SIZE (VirusTotal-yara-v4.2.3_GH0.tar.gz) = 1288334
diff --git a/security/yara/pkg-plist b/security/yara/pkg-plist
index 032761e04fb4..7e5f504b4808 100644
--- a/security/yara/pkg-plist
+++ b/security/yara/pkg-plist
@@ -1,42 +1,42 @@
 bin/yara
 bin/yarac
 include/yara.h
 include/yara/ahocorasick.h
 include/yara/arena.h
 include/yara/atoms.h
 include/yara/base64.h
 include/yara/bitmask.h
 include/yara/compiler.h
 include/yara/error.h
 include/yara/exec.h
 include/yara/exefiles.h
 include/yara/filemap.h
 include/yara/hash.h
 include/yara/integers.h
 include/yara/libyara.h
 include/yara/limits.h
 include/yara/mem.h
 include/yara/modules.h
 include/yara/notebook.h
 include/yara/object.h
 include/yara/parser.h
 include/yara/proc.h
 include/yara/re.h
 include/yara/rules.h
 include/yara/scan.h
 include/yara/scanner.h
 include/yara/sizedstr.h
 include/yara/stack.h
 include/yara/stopwatch.h
 include/yara/stream.h
 include/yara/strutils.h
 include/yara/threading.h
 include/yara/types.h
 include/yara/utils.h
 lib/libyara.a
 lib/libyara.so
-lib/libyara.so.8
-lib/libyara.so.8.0.0
+lib/libyara.so.9
+lib/libyara.so.9.0.1
 libdata/pkgconfig/yara.pc
 man/man1/yara.1.gz
 man/man1/yarac.1.gz