Associate Malware Analyst

The Position

We are looking for a driven and passionate Associate Malware Analyst to join our growing software engineering team. Join the MetaDefender Sandbox Team focuses on innovating cutting-edge sandbox and threat intelligence solutions – on premise and in the Cloud. As part of an international team with members in Vietnam, Spain, Georgia and Hungary you will have the opportunity to work on an amazing product, both locally and remotely around the world. 

What You Will be Doing

• Analyze modern malware based on public records or own research
• Conduct deep-dive technical analysis of malicious artifacts/events to identify, assess, and document cyber-attack tools, tactics, and procedures including malware defense mechanisms such as anti-reverse, anti-debug, and anti-virtual machine (anti-evasion techniques) 
• Classify malware based on malware behaviors, malware commonalities, malware families
• Participate in research and development of malware protection tools
• Identify credible new tools and subject matter resources relative to current and emerging malware analysis techniques  

What We Need from You 

• You are passionate about monitoring and analyzing several different malware families and identify threats including Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) and zero-day attacks
• Have a good knowledge of the cyber threat ecosystem including targets, actors, and the TTPs they use to distribute malware
• Utilizing multiple reverse engineering tools and techniques to perform malware and intrusion analysis, host and network forensics, and threat intelligence collections
• Ability to use static and dynamic methods to analyze a file using a (user and kernel mode) debugger disassembler and other tools
• Deep knowledge in operating system APIs and internals (Windows and Linux)
• Knowledge of Python or any scripting language knowledge
• Experience in some common malware techniques: Injection, Packing, Obfuscating
• Familiarity with ICS/IoT threats and security is an advantage
• Familiarity with Agile / Scrum working environment, and tools like Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, TeamCity is a plus

Why You’ll Love Working Here

• Stable, growing international company background with an exceptional customer group
• Opportunity to improve your professional skills
• The newest technology environment
• Attractive working environment – nice office