diff --git a/php-malware-finder/phpmalwarefinder b/php-malware-finder/phpmalwarefinder
index 8da0814..41f0b8a 100755
--- a/php-malware-finder/phpmalwarefinder
+++ b/php-malware-finder/phpmalwarefinder
@@ -91,7 +91,8 @@ output=$(mktemp)
 # delete trailing slash for directories to prevent double slash (issue #40)
 target=$(echo "$@" | sed s'#/$##')
 # Execute rules
-$YARA $OPTS $target |tee $output 
+# Using $-interpolation and quotes to support a target with whitespaces
+$YARA $OPTS "$target" |tee $output 
 
 needle_in_haystack "$output"
 rm "$output"