Junior Malware Analyst

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Junior Malware Analyst is an entry position in the career line of malicious code analysis. The main thrust of the job is, you may have guessed it, reverse engineering. You will be analyzing newly discovered malware samples and write the technical descriptions of the malicious programs as you analyze them. Job description Your primary goal is to uncover what the given malware does. Often you will need to drill down to the details, uncovering more of what it actually does, how it does it and for what aim it was designed. In some cases, you will put on your detective hat, pondering what's behind not only the malware sample but also what's behind the entire malicious operations. Malware Analysts (m/f/n) work under the Security Research Laboratory, which we refer to simply as "the VirusLab". Some of us work on analyzing malicious code, others track entire malicious operations, looking at how they function. Other colleagues are involved in detecting malware through various methods, including automatic systems that utilize various internal technologies or involve machine learning. Our analysts and engineers have extensive experience with reverse engineering techniques, and analysis and detection of malicious code on a range of operating systems, including Windows, Linux, OS X and mobile platforms. Our global teams also comprise experts on online threats, software vulnerabilities and exploits which are used by malware authors to infiltrate and abuse systems. Technologies used in the job: As a malware researcher, these will be the tools of your trade: IDA Pro, OllyDbg, Hiew, WinDbg, Kibana, Impala, MISP, YARA, SysInternals tools, Wireshark, Python, SQL, IRC. But of course not everyone works in the same way: you can choose your own arsenal. You will also rely on powerful internal tools, developed, tweaked and improved over the years to assist you in performing your awesome research in an efficient way. Responsibilities and duties: - Develop theoretical knowledge and practical skills in the area of reverse engineering. - Familiarize with the Security Research Laboratory environment, replicators, and basic tools. - Analyse files from the advanced set of malware. - Study the relevant literature. - Familiarize with security standards and comply with them. - Work on tasks not marked as urgent in the Prometheus system or on the analysis of set of files assigned by managing employee. - Familiarize with other tools in the vlab-regular group and some data sources (e.g. VirusTotal). - Perform tasks assigned by managing employee in accordance with the instructions and advice of experienced colleagues and regularly report on progress made in their implementation. - Perform conceptual, systemic, creative and methodical activities. - Carry out other work according to the instructions of a managing employee in accordance with the activity of the department and the company. Offered salary hourly (gross): 12 Euro This position is for limited time period - 4 months. #LI-DNI

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