Malware Reverse Engineer

Available Locations: Bangalore India

About the Team

Cloudforce One is Cloudflares threat operations and research team responsible for identifying and disrupting cyber threats ranging from sophisticated cyber criminal activity to nationstate sponsored advanced persistent threats (APTs). Cloudforce One works in close partnership with external organizations and internal Cloudflare teams continuously developing operational tradecraft and expanding evergrowing sources of threat intelligence to enable expedited threat hunting and remediation. Members of Cloudforce One are at the helm of leveraging an incredibly vast and varied set of data points that only one of the worlds largest global networks can provide. The team is able to analyze these unique data points at massive scale and efficiency synthesizing findings into actionable threat intelligence to better protect our customers.

About the Role

Cloudflare is a system spanning the globe on a mission to make the internet better safer and more powerful everyday. To help fulfill this mission we are seeking a talented Malware Reverse Engineer to join us in growing our Cloudforce One Organization where you will be instrumental in building a proactive and threat intelligencedriven approach to protecting Cloudflare and its customers from sophisticated and everevolving global threat actors. This position requires an innovative selfstarting and detailoriented problem solver with a passion for analyzing tracking and triagingthe malicious software used bysophisticated cyber threats.

As a Cloudforce One Reverse Engineer you will analyze malicious binaries with the goal ofmonitoring and disruptingcyber threat activityacross multiple platforms supporting both client requests and proactive internal research.You will serve an integral role in thediscovery and analysis of cyber threat adversaries working along side detection engineersto detect attacksand threat researchers to track them.The findings you uncoverwill help identify Tactics Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) of ongoing and everevolving cyber attacks to protect our global customer base. Lastly you will help expand our malware lab environmentso that we may modernized and scale our operations to streamline malware analysis within Cloudflare.

Our ideal candidate will have 7 years of previous experience reverse engineering malware samples and can write reliable code preferably in Python or Golang. Top candidates will have extensive experience with hands on static and dynamic analysis of common file formats on Windows macOS or UNIXbased platforms. We also would like our candidates to have experience writing code to process malware samples and interacting with APIs. As a member of the team you will be responsible for contributing to and deploying team codebases to coalesce traits of an attack. Outstanding candidates will also posses excellent verbal and written communication skills to facilitate dialogue with the Threat Research Team for reporting on malware and malware families. You will also work both as a selfdriven individual contributor and alongside a team to achieve a common goal.

Examples of desirable skills knowledge and experience

• Possess midlevel experience as a Malware Analyst ableto reverse engineer various file formats and analyze complex malware samples.
• Reverse engineering experience with APT malware with an understanding of common infection vectors.
• Perform system analysis using best practice malware analytics methodologies on Windows macOS or UNIX/Linux platform.
• Understanding of source code hex binary regular expression data correlation and analysis such as network flow and system logs.
• Practical malware analysis experience with static dynamic and automated malware analysis techniques.
• Knowledgeable of current malware techniques to evade detection and obstruct analysis.
• Experience with network protocol analysis and cryptography
• Proficient in Python or Golang capable of writing modular code that can be installed on a remote system
• Capable of updating analysis VMs and contributing to an analysis framework
• Contributions toenhancing collaborative malware analysis tools
• Experience writing malware reports on unique and interesting aspects of malware
• Experience with malware attribution
• Proficient with Yara and writing rules to detect similar malware samples
• Prior Government experience in malware tracking analysis and reporting

Bonus Points

• Experience with tracking and identifying threats through Indicator of Compromising (IOCs) pivoting and infrastructure enumeration
• A conceptual understanding of how attackers conduct operations in regards to the MITRE Cyber Chain
• Familiarity with bash command line executables to conduct static analysis and investigate IOCs.

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious largescale technology company. Were a highly ambitious largescale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014 weve equipped more than 2400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work technology already used by Cloudflares enterprise customersat no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017 we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project weve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster more secure and privacycentric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use it is the first consumerfocused service Cloudflare has ever released. Heres the deal we dont store client IP addresses never ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something youd like to be a part of Wed love to hear from you!

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