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Summary

Role is intended as an expert individual contributor dedicated to analyzing and researching malware, improving protection quality, increasing threat intelligence, driving new and existing accuracy improvement initiatives and ideas, as well as promoting the image of Kaspersky as the ultimate leader in anti-malware protection.

Baseline

Hard Skills

  • Perform static and dynamic analysis of the latest malware, including advanced reverse engineering.
  • Provide subject matter expertise in the detection, analysis and mitigation of malware and trends in malware development and capabilities.
  • Provide an analysis for sophisticated threats including the full attack chain - infection, propagation, lateral movement, exploiting
  • Be able to extract malicious patterns from an object and write an effective detection rule which does not cause false positives
  • Experience with malware research tools (disassemblers, debuggers, hex editors, un-packers, virtual machines, and network sniffers).
  • PE32/PE64 files analysis
  • x86 and x86-64 assembler understanding
  • Knowledge of Windows OS internals - memory, threads, processes, API, etc.
  • Proficiency in disassemblers and debuggers usage (IDA Pro, HIew, WinDbg, OllyDbg, etc.)
  • Knowledge and understanding of file formats and network protocols
  • Experience with network traffic analysis tools (Wireshark, Fiddler)
  • Experience in vulnerability research.

Soft Skills

  • Desire to develop in the field of information security, to study and apply new technologies

Education

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience

Certification

  • FOR610
  • eCMAP

Job Salary

Asia

$35K <= $59K <= $89K

Africa

$32K <= $41K <= $61K

North America

$49K <= $69K <= $95K

South America

$35K <= $55K <= $69K

Europe

£45,624 <= £54,999 <= £71,499

Oceania

AU$49K <= AU$55,990 <= AU$77K

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