What are the responsibilities and job description for the Malware Analyst position at Prime Time Consulting?
Malware Analyst Description:
Support clients in solving difficult problems by providing
recommendations based on the results of malicious code analysis.
Analyze and evaluate malicious code to create technical reports for
indicators of compromise and to recommend mitigation and detection
actions. Work to continually improve current malware analysis
techniques, and identify new ways to improve malware identification best
practices. Conduct research and training on comprehending emerging
malicious code threats.
recommendations based on the results of malicious code analysis.
Analyze and evaluate malicious code to create technical reports for
indicators of compromise and to recommend mitigation and detection
actions. Work to continually improve current malware analysis
techniques, and identify new ways to improve malware identification best
practices. Conduct research and training on comprehending emerging
malicious code threats.
The Malware Analyst shall possess the following capabilities:
- Conduct both dynamic and static analysis of suspicious code in order to establish malicious capability and determine potential impact.
- Experience with host and network monitoring for analysis of malware execution & propagation methodologies.
- Perform analysis on captured data, such as audit, log, network traffic, et cetera, to identify any intrusion-related artifacts.
- Understanding of operating system-specific exploitation vectors.
- Analyze malicious code by employing tools, scripting languages, and leveraging virtual machines/environments.
- Support 24/7 monitoring of malware threats to NSA networks, hosts, mission platforms, and boundaries.
- Generate documentation of vulnerabilities and exploits used by malware in written reports.
- Communicate written and verbal information in a timely, clear, and concise manner.
- Apply cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements (relevant to confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, non-repudiation).
- Generate technical summary of findings in accordance with established reporting procedures.
- Develop and recommend mitigation strategies.
- Develop signatures, techniques, and rules to identify malware vectors.
- Collaborate with internal and external organizations to discover new threats, develop mitigation techniques, processes, and tools which further the CSSP mission, as directed by the customer.
- Evaluate emerging threats.
Qualifications:
- Five (5) years of demonstrated experience in cybersecurity
- Three (3) years of demonstrated experience with malware analysis
- Two (2) years of demonstrated experience with tools such as GHIDRA, SYSInternals, FireEye AX, or similar technologies.
- One (1) year of demonstrated experience with development of code in languages such as Python, Lua, C/C , Ruby or similar
- Requires DoD 8570 compliance with CSSP Analyst baseline certification, Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level I or Level II certification, and Computing Environment (CE) certification
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