About the Role
We are seeking a highly motivated and technical intern to join our team as a Cybersecurity Researcher. The ideal candidate will be enrolled in a Computer Science or Cybersecurity course at an accredited university.
Key Responsibilities
* Support on research projects, developing processes, defining priorities, following deadlines, delivering material and sharing to the right teams.
* Defining malicious functionality in Windows x86/x64, MSIL, mobile threats, and web related malware.
* Keeping current with latest malware threats affecting our customers.
* Communicating with clients over email about adding detections.
* Participating in the development of the unit's recommended practices and standards, assuming responsibility for accomplishing group goals.
* Suggesting ideas to be implemented in company products, prototyping development; imagining and developing prototypes or new detection technologies.
* Content creation; analyzing and describing malicious programs (malware), on threat intel reports and documentation on various topics.
* Presenting about IT security to wide audiences (customers, internal sales, etc...).
* Monitoring, analysis and understanding of malware trends at local, regional and global level (country, region, world).
* Travel to conferences to give presentations is optional, but always encouraged.
About You
* A strong desire to learn on your own and share your research with teammates.
* Interest in malware analysis and security research.
* Knowledge of x86/x64 Intel Assembly (at least 1 year).
* Basic knowledge of WinAPI.
* Using IDA Disassembler, HIEW, OllyDbg, or Windbg to analyze PE files (at least 1 year).
* Executable file analysis skills in a hexadecimal editor (Hiew, 010, etc...).
* Deep knowledge in several of the following fields:
* Mobile device security and mobile malware.
* Statistical analysis.
* Polymorphic malware.
* Rootkits/bootkits.
* Knowledge and skills needed to analyze and understand non-standard threats (MacOS X, ICS, SCADA, ARM, QNX, UEFI/BIOS, etc...).
* Good knowledge of file formats (archive, image, sound, video, etc...).
* Ability to analyze and understand malicious code (Windows PE, .Net, OLE2, JS, VBS, HTML, PDF, SWF, ELF).
* Good knowledge of Linux OS distributions, Linux API / kernel / POSIX standards.
* Excellent knowledge of Windows PE file format.
* Some experience in programming languages (Python, C#, C, C++) [At least 1 year in any].
* Fluency in English is Mandatory.