diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/capabilities.yaml b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/capabilities.yaml
index e4c7d6534..0adf563ea 100644
--- a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/capabilities.yaml
+++ b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/capabilities.yaml
@@ -603,6 +603,26 @@ catalogers:
             cpes:
               - cpe:2.3:a:elixir-lang:elixir:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
             type: BinaryPkg
+      - method: glob
+        criteria:
+          - '**/pilot-discovery'
+        packages:
+          - class: istio-binary
+            name: pilot-discovery
+            purl: pkg:generic/istio
+            cpes:
+              - cpe:2.3:a:istio:istio:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
+            type: BinaryPkg
+      - method: glob
+        criteria:
+          - '**/pilot-agent'
+        packages:
+          - class: istio-binary
+            name: pilot-agent
+            purl: pkg:generic/istio
+            cpes:
+              - cpe:2.3:a:istio:istio:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
+            type: BinaryPkg
       - method: glob
         criteria:
           - '**/grafana'
diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifier_cataloger_test.go b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifier_cataloger_test.go
index 4d21c5b9c..80e962502 100644
--- a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifier_cataloger_test.go
+++ b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifier_cataloger_test.go
@@ -1441,6 +1441,83 @@ func Test_Cataloger_PositiveCases(t *testing.T) {
 				},
 			},
 		},
+		{
+			logicalFixture: "istio_pilot-discovery/1.26.8/linux-amd64",
+			expected: pkg.Package{
+				Name:      "pilot-discovery",
+				Version:   "1.26.8",
+				Type:      "binary",
+				PURL:      "pkg:generic/istio@1.26.8",
+				Locations: locations("pilot-discovery"),
+				Metadata:  metadata("istio-binary"),
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			logicalFixture: "istio_pilot-discovery/1.8.0/linux-amd64",
+			expected: pkg.Package{
+				Name:      "pilot-discovery",
+				Version:   "1.8.0",
+				Type:      "binary",
+				PURL:      "pkg:generic/istio@1.8.0",
+				Locations: locations("pilot-discovery"),
+				Metadata:  metadata("istio-binary"),
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			logicalFixture: "istio_pilot-discovery/1.3.8/linux-amd64",
+			expected: pkg.Package{
+				Name:      "pilot-discovery",
+				Version:   "1.3.8",
+				Type:      "binary",
+				PURL:      "pkg:generic/istio@1.3.8",
+				Locations: locations("pilot-discovery"),
+				Metadata:  metadata("istio-binary"),
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			logicalFixture: "istio_pilot-discovery/1.1.17/linux-amd64",
+			expected: pkg.Package{
+				Name:      "pilot-discovery",
+				Version:   "1.1.17",
+				Type:      "binary",
+				PURL:      "pkg:generic/istio@1.1.17",
+				Locations: locations("pilot-discovery"),
+				Metadata:  metadata("istio-binary"),
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			logicalFixture: "istio_pilot-agent/1.26.8/linux-amd64",
+			expected: pkg.Package{
+				Name:      "pilot-agent",
+				Version:   "1.26.8",
+				Type:      "binary",
+				PURL:      "pkg:generic/istio@1.26.8",
+				Locations: locations("pilot-agent"),
+				Metadata:  metadata("istio-binary"),
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			logicalFixture: "istio_pilot-agent/1.8.0/linux-amd64",
+			expected: pkg.Package{
+				Name:      "pilot-agent",
+				Version:   "1.8.0",
+				Type:      "binary",
+				PURL:      "pkg:generic/istio@1.8.0",
+				Locations: locations("pilot-agent"),
+				Metadata:  metadata("istio-binary"),
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			logicalFixture: "istio_pilot-agent/1.1.17/linux-amd64",
+			expected: pkg.Package{
+				Name:      "pilot-agent",
+				Version:   "1.1.17",
+				Type:      "binary",
+				PURL:      "pkg:generic/istio@1.1.17",
+				Locations: locations("pilot-agent"),
+				Metadata:  metadata("istio-binary"),
+			},
+		},
 		{
 			logicalFixture: "grafana/12.3.1/linux-amd64",
 			expected: pkg.Package{
diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifiers.go b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifiers.go
index 025f546f1..8420faf64 100644
--- a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifiers.go
+++ b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifiers.go
@@ -697,6 +697,37 @@ func DefaultClassifiers() []binutils.Classifier {
 			PURL:    mustPURL("pkg:generic/elixir@version"),
 			CPEs:    singleCPE("cpe:2.3:a:elixir-lang:elixir:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", cpe.NVDDictionaryLookupSource),
 		},
+		{
+			Class:    "istio-binary",
+			FileGlob: "**/pilot-discovery",
+			EvidenceMatcher: binutils.MatchAny(
+				// [NUL]1.26.8[NUL][NUL]1.26.8[NUL]
+				// [NUL]1.3.7[NUL][NUL][NUL]1.3.8[NUL]
+				m.FileContentsVersionMatcher(`[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\x00+(?P<version>[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+)\x00+`),
+				// Clean[NUL][NUL][NUL]1.8.0[NUL]
+				m.FileContentsVersionMatcher(`Clean\x00+(?P<version>[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+)\x00+`),
+				// 1.1.17[NUL]...S=v<y5
+				m.FileContentsVersionMatcher(`(?s)(?P<version>[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+)\x00+.{1,100}S?=v<y5`),
+			),
+			Package: "pilot-discovery",
+			PURL:    mustPURL("pkg:generic/istio@version"),
+			CPEs:    singleCPE("cpe:2.3:a:istio:istio:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", cpe.NVDDictionaryLookupSource),
+		},
+		{
+			Class:    "istio-binary",
+			FileGlob: "**/pilot-agent",
+			EvidenceMatcher: binutils.MatchAny(
+				// [NUL]1.26.8[NUL][NUL]1.26.8[NUL]
+				m.FileContentsVersionMatcher(`[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\x00+(?P<version>[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+)\x00+`),
+				// Clean[NUL][NUL][NUL]1.8.0[NUL]
+				m.FileContentsVersionMatcher(`Clean\x00+(?P<version>[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+)\x00+`),
+				// 1.1.17[NUL]...S=v<y5
+				m.FileContentsVersionMatcher(`(?s)(?P<version>[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+)\x00+.{1,100}S?=v<y5`),
+			),
+			Package: "pilot-agent",
+			PURL:    mustPURL("pkg:generic/istio@version"),
+			CPEs:    singleCPE("cpe:2.3:a:istio:istio:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", cpe.NVDDictionaryLookupSource),
+		},
 		{
 			Class:    "grafana-binary",
 			FileGlob: "**/grafana",
diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/istio_pilot-agent/1.1.17/linux-amd64/pilot-agent b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/istio_pilot-agent/1.1.17/linux-amd64/pilot-agent
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2eec48b05
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diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/istio_pilot-agent/1.26.8/linux-amd64/pilot-agent b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/istio_pilot-agent/1.26.8/linux-amd64/pilot-agent
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..707cfc4d7
Binary files /dev/null and b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/istio_pilot-agent/1.26.8/linux-amd64/pilot-agent differ
diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/istio_pilot-agent/1.8.0/linux-amd64/pilot-agent b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/istio_pilot-agent/1.8.0/linux-amd64/pilot-agent
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..259d41df0
Binary files /dev/null and b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/istio_pilot-agent/1.8.0/linux-amd64/pilot-agent differ
diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/istio_pilot-discovery/1.1.17/linux-amd64/pilot-discovery b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/istio_pilot-discovery/1.1.17/linux-amd64/pilot-discovery
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..96ea30bc1
Binary files /dev/null and b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/istio_pilot-discovery/1.1.17/linux-amd64/pilot-discovery differ
diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/istio_pilot-discovery/1.26.8/linux-amd64/pilot-discovery b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/istio_pilot-discovery/1.26.8/linux-amd64/pilot-discovery
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..83046f9b8
Binary files /dev/null and b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/istio_pilot-discovery/1.26.8/linux-amd64/pilot-discovery differ
diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/istio_pilot-discovery/1.3.8/linux-amd64/pilot-discovery b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/istio_pilot-discovery/1.3.8/linux-amd64/pilot-discovery
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ac0d639de
Binary files /dev/null and b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/istio_pilot-discovery/1.3.8/linux-amd64/pilot-discovery differ
diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/istio_pilot-discovery/1.8.0/linux-amd64/pilot-discovery b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/istio_pilot-discovery/1.8.0/linux-amd64/pilot-discovery
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f953ff187
Binary files /dev/null and b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/istio_pilot-discovery/1.8.0/linux-amd64/pilot-discovery differ
diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/config.yaml b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/config.yaml
index 1c0d79f98..6085c555f 100644
--- a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/config.yaml
+++ b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/config.yaml
@@ -853,6 +853,61 @@ from-images:
     paths:
       - /usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/opencv_contrib_python.libs/libavcodec-9aae324f.so.59.37.100
 
+  - name: istio_pilot-discovery
+    version: 1.26.8
+    images:
+      - ref: istio/pilot:1.26.8@sha256:977d7941743cde8eb4868a00d8493ea3c18bb92622d5e6d9003c5d4f95780e69
+        platform: linux/amd64
+    paths:
+      - /usr/local/bin/pilot-discovery
+
+  - name: istio_pilot-discovery
+    version: 1.8.0
+    images:
+      - ref: istio/pilot:1.8.0@sha256:2a11b6eab182a62ba44686c6cee35a6fceae782c4aa5532f4ade023c8c177bd0
+        platform: linux/amd64
+    paths:
+      - /usr/local/bin/pilot-discovery
+
+  - name: istio_pilot-discovery
+    version: 1.3.8
+    images:
+      - ref: istio/pilot:1.3.8@sha256:e86394d237e1626f117cadea3588c5182d63b6a8712f9763ee419d4c72e7669b
+        platform: linux/amd64
+    paths:
+      - /usr/local/bin/pilot-discovery
+
+  - name: istio_pilot-discovery
+    version: 1.1.17
+    images:
+      - ref: istio/pilot:1.1.17@sha256:79a39ea04dbf7f9e36be80439d44f82968073eea307a58a6b073b551063ec629
+        platform: linux/amd64
+    paths:
+      - /usr/local/bin/pilot-discovery
+
+  - name: istio_pilot-agent
+    version: 1.26.8
+    images:
+      - ref: istio/proxyv2:1.26.8@sha256:a5ef82f7954bb4137244b7dbc1b4bd30382673c9425d74933da6f2de2c3a345b
+        platform: linux/amd64
+    paths:
+      - /usr/local/bin/pilot-agent
+
+  - name: istio_pilot-agent
+    version: 1.8.0
+    images:
+      - ref: istio/proxyv2:1.8.0@sha256:8721ddb5acf86dbe9d4c68993947c27d4b98a6d23ecde80246c74bf8bebd163f
+        platform: linux/amd64
+    paths:
+      - /usr/local/bin/pilot-agent
+
+  - name: istio_pilot-agent
+    version: 1.1.17
+    images:
+      - ref: istio/proxyv2:1.1.17@sha256:f97470c9b3124c19069ce9b773198da0efddbeea85dd33f88e2fb4f3b0c55e31
+        platform: linux/amd64
+    paths:
+      - /usr/local/bin/pilot-agent
   - name: grafana
     version: 12.3.1
     images: