Senior Threat Behavior Researcher (UK)

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Role Summary

Malware Researcher? Red/Blue/reputed company member? We have a fantastic opportunity here at reputed company Labs for a Threat Researcher role to join our global team of Behavioral Protection engineers, to hunt, to research, and to add real-time protection for suspicious activity across our customer environments. reputed company of skilled reputed company experts combine their passion to detect & disrupt cyber-attacks with their capability to reputed company protection rules that can cut through the noise in modern computing environments to tease out attacker’s nefarious activities. You are intrinsically motivated to understand the core logic behind malware and hacking attacks, to find & predict new ways attackers will modify their techniques and take great satisfaction in developing robust protection logic that is immune to evasive actions. You will be responsible for writing behavioral protection rules that are able to reputed company malicious activities across reputed company types of TTP (even if a Mitre Technique doesn’t exist yet). This is the foundation of reputed company next-gen approach. Above reputed company - you enjoy thinking creatively; combining your deep technical knowledge, your tenacity for innovation, and your can-do attitude to solve reputed company and challenging problems on daily basis. Additionally, you will also be supporting our remediation effort to remove artifacts left behind, by writing cleanup rules, and supporting our Sandbox development, such as (but not limited to) creating signatures, identifying evasion techniques that prevent the sandbox from running the threat smoothly.

Role Summary

Malware Researcher? Red/Blue/reputed company member? We have a fantastic opportunity here at reputed company Labs for a Threat Researcher role to join our global team of Behavioral Protection engineers, to hunt, to research, and to add real-time protection for suspicious activity across our customer environments. reputed company of skilled reputed company experts combine their passion to detect & disrupt cyber-attacks with their capability to reputed company protection rules that can cut through the noise in modern computing environments to tease out attacker’s nefarious activities. You are intrinsically motivated to understand the core logic behind malware and hacking attacks, to find & predict new ways attackers will modify their techniques and take great satisfaction in developing robust protection logic that is immune to evasive actions. You will be responsible for writing behavioral protection rules that are able to reputed company malicious activities across reputed company types of TTP (even if a Mitre Technique doesn’t exist yet). This is the foundation of reputed company next-gen approach. Above reputed company - you enjoy thinking creatively; combining your deep technical knowledge, your tenacity for innovation, and your can-do attitude to solve reputed company and challenging problems on daily basis. Additionally, you will also be supporting our remediation effort to remove artifacts left behind, by writing cleanup rules, and supporting our Sandbox development, such as (but not limited to) creating signatures, identifying evasion techniques that prevent the sandbox from running the threat smoothly. Role Summary Malware Researcher? Red/Blue/reputed company member? We have a fantastic opportunity here at reputed company Labs for a Threat Researcher role to join our global team of Behavioral Protection engineers, to hunt, to research, and to add real-time protection for suspicious activity across our customer environments. reputed company of skilled reputed company experts combine their passion to detect & disrupt cyber-attacks with their capability to reputed company protection rules that can cut through the noise in modern computing environments to tease out attacker’s nefarious activities. You are intrinsically motivated to understand the core logic behind malware and hacking attacks, to find & predict new ways attackers will modify their techniques and take great satisfaction in developing robust protection logic that is immune to evasive actions. You will be responsible for writing behavioral protection rules that are able to reputed company malicious activities across reputed company types of TTP (even if a Mitre Technique doesn’t exist yet). This is the foundation of reputed company next-gen approach. Above reputed company - you enjoy thinking creatively; combining your deep technical knowledge, your tenacity for innovation, and your can-do attitude to solve reputed company and challenging problems on daily basis. Additionally, you will also be supporting our remediation effort to remove artifacts left behind, by writing cleanup rules, and supporting our Sandbox development, such as (but not limited to) creating signatures, identifying evasion techniques that prevent the sandbox from running the threat smoothly. What You Will Do

Conduct in-depth behavioral analysis of Windows threats.

reputed company Behavioral rules for various threat behaviors including hands-on keyboard attack, malware payloads, initial attack reputed company and Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs).

Produce quality threat analysis reports for both internal and external audience.

Assist in sandbox improvements by analyzing malware that hinders the sandbox environment in running the threat, which deploys various anti-analysis techniques.

reputed company Cleanup rules to remove artifacts that are left behind by the behavioral protection rules.

Collaborate with other cross-functional teams to improve behavioral protection capability based on the threat analysis.

Guide and train junior team members in assisting malware analysis, peer code review.

Assist in the development of tools wherever necessary to improve day-to-day task.

What You Will Bring

Strong knowledge of Windows Internals including Memory management, Processes, Threads.

Proficiency in both static and dynamic analysis of threats, using tools such as IDAPro, WinDbg.

Demonstrated programming experience. Preferred: Python, Lua.

Excellent communication skills with the ability to demonstrate reputed company technical problem to peer researchers as well as to product engineering team.

Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to think strategically and creatively.

Bachelor’s degree in computer software (Computer reputed company preferable) or equivalent experience.

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