Malware Investigator

Job Title: Malware Investigator

This position combines hands-on research, reverse engineering, and detection development with architectural vision and cross-functional collaboration. You will investigate emerging attack techniques and design novel detection approaches.

• Reverse engineer sophisticated malware, identifying malicious code, obfuscation techniques, and communication protocols.
• Conduct comprehensive research on attacker campaigns and techniques to support detection investments and enhance customer experience.
• Develop and optimize generic threat detection strategies based on static and dynamic detection engines.
• Perform proactive and reactive threat hunting to identify detection issues such as misses or misclassifications from large-scale datasets.
• Respond to escalations to resolve detection effectiveness issues (misclassifications, false positives, and false negatives).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams within the product organization including product management, engineering and research to drive exceptional customer experiences and ensure comprehensive protection.
• Develop alerting, reporting, and automated detection solutions.
• Stay abreast of the latest cybersecurity threats, attack techniques, detection evasion tactics, OS features, and industry developments.
• Build and maintain tools and automation to improve productivity and detection efficacy.
• Utilize machine learning techniques to enhance threat detection and response capabilities.

• 1-2 Years of combined practical experience with Android Engineering or reverse Engineering (is a must)
• Need experience with programming fundamentals including Encode/Decode (Base 64) and Cryptography (Encryption/Decryption)
• Experience with one of the following Static Analysis Reverse Engineering Fundamentals (Preferred)
• Decompliation
• Disassembly
• Code Auditing
• Experience with one of the following Dynamic Analysis Reverse Engineering Fundamentals (Preferred)
• Debugging
• Monitoring
• Experience experience with one of the following Reverse Engineering Tools (Preferred)
• Decompilers- IDA Pro, Ghidra, Radare2, JADX, Fernflower
• Disassemblers- Smali/Baksmali
• Debugging Tooks- ADB, JDWP
• Must have experience with Linux/Unix Command-Line
• Strong communication and technical writing