Senior Malware Analyst

About the Position

Gothenburg, Sweden

With 1,000+ intelligence professionals serving over 1,900 clients worldwide, Recorded Future is the world’s most advanced, and largest, intelligence company!

Join the team behind Recorded Future’s Triage malware analysis sandbox. As a Senior Malware Analyst, you'll analyze the latest malware samples and implement new signatures, YARA rules, and features in Recorded Future's state-of-the-art malware analysis sandbox. Your research will become operational intelligence and detection coverage used by security teams worldwide. Check out our free public version (https://tria.ge) to get a taste of what we're building.

Responsibilities

• Triage and investigate samples surfaced by the sandbox to discover new and emerging malware families.
• Perform static and dynamic analysis of malicious samples across Windows, macOS, and/or Android platforms.
• Write and maintain YARA rules to reliably detect malware families and variants.
• Develop and maintain configuration extractors to pull actionable intelligence (C2 servers, campaign IDs, encryption keys, etc.) from malware samples.
• Validate and tune detections to minimize false positives.
• Improve analysis methodology and tooling.
• Influence sandbox features based on malware research.

Requirements

• Solid understanding of how sandbox systems work (behavioral analysis, hooking, monitoring, evasion detection, etc.)
• Strong knowledge of internals of Windows, Android, or macOS (multiple is a plus) - process/memory model, file formats, APIs, OS-level mechanisms abused by malware.
• Practical experience writing YARA rules, behavioral detection, and config extractors.
• Strong skills in Assembly language
• Comfortable working asynchronously and independently.
• Familiarity with the Go programming language
• Prior experience contributing to public or private detection rule sets

We Offer

Recorded Future employees (or “Futurists”), represent over 40 nationalities and embody our core values of having high standards, practicing inclusion, and acting ethically. Our dedication to empowering clients with intelligence to disrupt adversaries has earned us a 4.6-star user rating on G2 and more than 50% of Fortune 100 companies as customers.

About the Company

Recorded Future is committed to maintaining an environment that attracts and retains talent from a diverse range of experiences, backgrounds, and lifestyles. By ensuring all feel included and respected for being unique and bringing their whole selves to work, Recorded Future is made a better place every day.

Recorded Future is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Recorded Future does not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender including pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.