Malware Analyst

Sequretek is one of the very few cybersecurity companies in the world, to offer their own AI-based security products around endpoint security, user access governance, and security monitoring. Sequretek has its 5 offices across US (New Jersey, Arkansas) and India (Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore) regions. Sequretek’ s products are covered by technology influencers like Gartner, ICSA Labs, NASSCOM, and have strategic partnerships with Intel, Ingram Micro and FIS.

The company has received recognitions from several government bodies, startup entities as well as media houses over these past several years. Very recently, Sequretek was announced “Winners of National Startup Awards 2021” by the Prime Minister\\\'s office (Govt. of India) for demonstrating its innovative use of AI in cybersecurity. Similarly, Sequretek was also announced as NASSCOM Emerge 50 Winner along with winning “Startup of the Year” by Data Security Council of India.

The solutions offered by Sequretek leverage next generation technologies like AI, ML, Deep Learning, SOAR and Big data Analytics. Sequretek’ s cutting-edge solutions ensure increased efficiency in threat detection as the element of human dependency to write rules to detect are eliminated.

Innovation has been core to Sequretek, and it highly invests in Research & Development, Malware Research, and Product Development and Engineering departments to keep up pace with the continuously evolving threat landscape.

Job responsibilities include:

• Document malware threats and identify procedures to avoid them


• Static and dynamic analyses using tools to identify threats


• Classify malware based on threats and commonalities


• Write alerts to let security personnel know about the latest threats


• Understand tools that identify zero day cyber threats and work to protect from them


• Participate in research and development of malware protection tools


• Ability to setup collection mechanisms for malware samples (honey pots)


• Ability to setup virtualized environments for malware analysis

Capabilities for Malware Analysis

Fundamentals

• Networking and TCP/IP


• Operating system internals (Windows and Unix)


• Computer security


• Forensics and incident response


• Programming (Assembly, C, C++, Python, and Perl)


• Assemble a toolkit for effective malware analysis


• Examine static properties of suspicious programs


• Perform behavioural analysis of malicious executables


• Perform static and dynamic code analysis of malicious executables


• Contribute insights to the organization's larger incident response effort

Malicious Code Analysis

• Core concepts for analysing malware at the code level


• x86 Intel assembly language primer for malware analysts


• Identifying key x86 assembly logic structures with a disassembler


• Patterns of common malware characteristics at the Windows API level (DLL injection, function hooking, key-logging, communicating over HTTP, etc.)

In-Depth Malware Analysis

• Recognizing packed malware


• Automated malware unpacking tools and approaches


• Manual unpacking of malware using OllyDbg, process dumping tools and imports-rebuilding utilities


• Intercept network connections in the malware lab


• Interact with malicious websites to examine their nature


• De-obfuscate browser scripts using debuggers and runtime interpreters



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Self-Defending Malware

• Bypassing anti-analysis defences


• Recovering concealed malicious code and data


• Unpacking more sophisticated packers to locate the Original Entry Point


• Identifying and disabling methods employed by malware to detect analysts' tools


• Analyzing shellcode to assist with the examination of malicious documents and other artefacts

Malicious Documents and Memory Forensics

• Analyze malicious Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) documents


• Analyze malicious Adobe PDF documents


• Analyze memory to assess malware characteristics and reconstruct infection artefacts


• Using memory forensics to analyze rootkit infections

Essential Qualifications

• 6-8 years’ experience as a SOC specialist/Malware analyst


• Certifications in Networking, OS, Infosec and languages (C, C++, Perl, Python & Assembly)


• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science