diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifier_cataloger_test.go b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifier_cataloger_test.go
index c1bfbb322f0..829a02ecfd6 100644
--- a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifier_cataloger_test.go
+++ b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifier_cataloger_test.go
@@ -392,7 +392,17 @@ func Test_Cataloger_PositiveCases(t *testing.T) {
 				Metadata:  metadata("helm"),
 			},
 		},
-
+		{
+			logicalFixture: "rakudo-star/2024.08/linux-amd64",
+			expected: pkg.Package{
+				Name:      "rakudo/star",
+				Version:   "2024.08",
+				Type:      "binary",
+				PURL:      "pkg:generic/rakudo/star@2024.08",
+				Locations: locations("rakudo-2024.08"),
+				Metadata:  metadata("rakudo-star-binary"),
+			},
+		},
 		{
 			// note: dynamic (non-snippet) test case
 			logicalFixture: "redis-server/2.8.23/linux-amd64",
diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifiers.go b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifiers.go
index 5290b4d984e..fcb93a9b383 100644
--- a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifiers.go
+++ b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifiers.go
@@ -352,6 +352,16 @@ func DefaultClassifiers() []Classifier {
 			PURL:    mustPURL("pkg:generic/mariadb@version"),
 			CPEs:    singleCPE("cpe:2.3:a:mariadb:mariadb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", cpe.NVDDictionaryLookupSource),
 		},
+		{
+			Class:    "rakudo-star-binary",
+			FileGlob: "**/rakudo*",
+			EvidenceMatcher: FileContentsVersionMatcher(
+				`(?m)Rakudo version\s*(?P<version>[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+)`,
+			),
+			Package: "rakudo/star",
+			PURL:    mustPURL("pkg:generic/rakudo/star@version"),
+			CPEs:    singleCPE("cpe:2.3:a:rakudo:star:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"),
+		},
 		{
 			Class:    "rust-standard-library-linux",
 			FileGlob: "**/libstd-????????????????.so",
diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/rakudo-star/2024.08/linux-amd64/rakudo b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/rakudo-star/2024.08/linux-amd64/rakudo
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..298ba8a7e31
Binary files /dev/null and b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/rakudo-star/2024.08/linux-amd64/rakudo differ
diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/config.yaml b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/config.yaml
index 58408325be8..6ff556c0d39 100644
--- a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/config.yaml
+++ b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/config.yaml
@@ -375,6 +375,22 @@ from-images:
     paths:
       - /opt/pypy/bin/libpypy3.9-c.so
 
+  - name: rakudo-star
+    version: 2024.08
+    images:
+      - ref: rakudo-star:2024.08-bookworm@sha256:fb46bca51e03649ee14c3b1de3ecf8b4bb096e43
+        platform: linux/amd64
+    paths:
+      - /usr/bin/rakudo
+
+  - name: rakudo-star
+    version: 2024.08-alpine
+    images:
+      - ref: rakudo-star:2024.08-alpine@sha256:fb46bca51e03649ee14c3b1de3ecf8b4bb096e43
+        platform: linux/amd64
+    paths:
+      - /usr/local/bin/rakudo
+
   - version: 2.8.23
     images:
       - ref: redis:2.8.23@sha256:e507029ca6a11b85f8628ff16d7ff73ae54582f16fd757e64431f5ca6d27a13c