Malware Engineer, Security Advisor

1 week ago

Chantilly, Virginia, United States Peraton Full time

Job Summary:

Peraton is seeking a skilled Malware Reverse Engineer to support one of our longstanding customers. The primary responsibility will focus on isolating, reviewing, analyzing, and reverse-engineering malicious binaries to determine functionality and capability.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Analyze samples of malicious code to determine scope, nature, and characteristics.
  • Evaluate and analyze complex malicious code using tools such as dissemblers, debuggers, hex editors, un-packers, virtual machines, and network sniffers.
  • Conduct reverse engineering for known and suspected malware files.
  • Investigate instances of malicious code to determine attack vector and payload, and to determine the extent of damage and data exfiltration.
  • Provide detailed reports of findings.
  • Perform research in malicious software, vulnerabilities, and exploitation tactics.
  • Identify vulnerabilities in binaries, identify and analyze shellcode, and recommend preventative or defensive actions.
  • Reverse-engineer malware and incorporate analysis results into detailed reporting to include behavior, identified infrastructure used for command and control, and mitigation techniques.
  • Develop network and host-based signatures to identify specific malware.
  • Recommend heuristic or anomaly-based detection methods.
  • Compare malware to existing malware signatures.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience in Information Systems or related field.
  • 4 years of experience in Malware Analysis, Reverse Engineering or related efforts.
  • Proficiency with a disassembler like IDA Pro or Ghidra and debuggers like OllyDbg, x64Dbg, Immunity, etc.
  • Experience identifying and defeating known or custom packers.
  • 200 hours of formal, accredited training in related technical specialty fields.
  • Active TS Clearance, SCI eligibility.
  • Minimum of 8 years with BS/BA, Minimum of 6 years with MS/MA, Minimum of 3 years with PhD (additional experience accepted in lieu of degree).

Preferred Skills:

  • Experience with multiple Assembly Languages.
  • Other Operating System file formats, such as ELF, Mach-O, and APK.
  • Python and other programming or scripting languages.
  • Cryptography.

About Peraton:

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies.

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