Senior Malware Researcher - Cyber Espionage - FireEye, Inc. Chantilly, VA, United States Bookmark Share Print 1845 2 23

Listing Description

FireEye iSIGHT Intelligence is seeking a Senior Malware Researcher with analytic capabilities and a proven record of identifying and tracking threats. The successful candidate is a seasoned researcher who has knowledge of state-sponsored cyber espionage along with a technical understanding of the tools, techniques and procedures used by these threat actors.

A Senior Malware Researcher is expected to work with minimal guidance against a broad set of research objectives to handle a variety of complex assignments and situations and must demonstrate full knowledge of fundamental concepts across a wide range of intelligence disciplines. Within established priorities and deadlines, she/he will exercise independent judgment in selecting and applying appropriate work methods, procedures, techniques and practices.

We encourage giveback to the community and strongly support sharing of expertise by authoring whitepapers and speaking at conferences.Gather raw intelligence from sensors, incident response engagements and other sources

Analyze malware, extracting relevant host and network based indicators (HBI/NBI)

Identify capability of malware and any anchor functions that can be utilitized to discover additional activity

Investigate impact to customers to determine if new detections or compromise notifications are necessary

Identify notable findings of intelligence value

Correlate collected intelligence, in order to build upon a larger knowledge base of tracked threat activity

Respond to prioritized research requests and distill key findings in order to enable production of finished intelligence