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New York City Office of Technology & Innovation ยท 2 days ago
Malware Analyst
Brooklyn, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid Level
4+ years exp
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Responsibilities
Conduct malware analysis and reverse engineering on suspicious code, and produce detailed reports of findings.
Research malware families and variants to distill common characteristics and behaviors.
Conduct deep dive technical analysis of cyber-attack tools, tactics, and procedures.
Review threat information, maintain a threat repository, and develop processes for archiving and updating this repository.
Perform static code analysis and dynamic analysis to extract identifiable behaviors informing analytic development efforts and the NYC3 defensive posture.
Analyze malware from internal and external sources to extract identifiable behaviors and inform analytic development efforts and defensive posture.
Partner with SOC and Counter Threat Intelligence (CTI) teams during investigations to understand incidents and support technical analysis of malicious cyber security events.
Work with the Counter Threat Automation (CTA) team on automation of processes for malware analysis.
Build tools to support malware analysis and collaborate with the CTA team to integrate them.
Effectively communicate with business executives, technology specialists, and vendors.
Qualification
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Required
A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and four years of satisfactory full-time experience related to projects and policies required by the particular position
Education and/or experience which is equivalent to the above
Preferred
4+ years experience as a Malware Analyst
A solid understanding of how malware interacts with different operating systems
A solid understanding of dynamic/static analysis of malware
Understand unpacking, deobfuscation, and anti-debugging techniques
Reconstruct unknown file formats & data structures
Experience with reverse engineering tools such as IDA Pro, WinDbg, OllyDbg, Immunity Debugger or similar
Strong knowledge of C/C++, Windows API, and Windows OS internals
Experience in creating malware analysis tools and scripts for accelerating automated malware analysis, unpacking, and extracting data
Understand network protocols and common ways they are employed in attacks
Knowledge of incident response, investigations and crisis management
Knowledge of both host based forensics and network based forensics
Intermediate experience programming in Python and willingness to learn new languages as needed
Understand source code, hex, binary, regular expression, data correlation, and analysis such as firewall, network flow, and system logs
Ability to write technical reports
Experience in interacting with major government agencies and authorities around the world
Experience in safely and legally maintaining a network for collection of threat information
Experience reviewing and analyzing Security Events from various monitoring and logging sources
Previous experience working as a part of an IT Security team
Strong sense of teamwork, an inquisitive mind and the desire to share knowledge
Demonstrated work that is reviewable: i.e. Github / Bitbucket/Gitlab repositories or portfolio site
Preferred certifications : GREM, GCIA, GCIH
Benefits
Public Service Loan Forgiveness
Company
New York City Office of Technology & Innovation
The Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI) leverages technology to drive opportunity, improve public safety, and help government run better across New York City.
1,001-5,000 employees
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