Malware Reverse Engineer

LTM; Hyderabad, Pune District; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

LTM in Hyderabad, India seeks a Malware Analyst with reverse engineering and malware analysis expertise to detect and dissect threats across platforms.

You will study malware campaigns, write detection signatures, analyze phishing events, and contribute to incident response, threat hunting, and intelligence sharing to strengthen defenses.

Strong analytical skills, excellent written and verbal communication, and familiarity with tools like OllyDbg and IDA Pro are required.

Qualifications

• Static and dynamic malware analysis with familiarity of file structures (PE, PDF, OLE, etc.).
• Experience writing initial vector malware detection signatures.
• Knowledge of trending malware campaigns and threat writeups.
• Experience with email and endpoint security (EOP).
• Investigating phishing campaigns and spam reports.
• Threat intelligence analysis and threat hunting.
• Analyzing PE and non-PE files for malicious content (OLE, PDF, HTML, JS).
• Reverse engineering and malware analysis proficiency.
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK techniques and kill chains.
• Awareness of AV evasion tools and pentesting utilities.

Skills

Static malware analysis

Dynamic malware analysis

Malware signature writing

Threat hunting

Threat intelligence

Phishing investigation

Email/Endpoint security

MITRE ATT&CK knowledge

AV evasion techniques

Reversing/RE

Debugging tools

Tools

OllyDBG

IDA PRO

Job description

For Malware + RE:

Here are the some of the key skills which we are looking for it:

• Static and dynamic malware analysis(aware of file structure like, PE, PDF, OLE, windows short cut files etc...)
• someone who has hands on writing signatures for malware samples(at-least initial vector malware).
• Aware of trending malware family campaign and analysis for threat write ups for that follow up family. (example malware family - Emotet/Qakbot/AgentTesla etc..)
• Email security and Endpoint Security (EOP)
• Investigating the Phishing campaign and spam emails which users have received and reported.
• Threat Intelligence analysis/ Threat hunting
• Analyzing PE files (Dynamic and static analysis) and providing detection for malicious PE files.(RE/Malware Analysis)
• Analyzing non-PE files (like OLE / PDF / HTML / HTA / VBS|VBE /JS/ WSF/JAR/LNK) andproviding detection for malicious files.
• Malware Analysis and Reversing.
• Reverse Engineering skills: familiar with debuggers, disassemblers, network protocols, file formats, sandboxes, hardware/firmware internals, software communication mechanisms, Classification, clustering and labelling of Malware.
• Knowledge of Advanced Techniques of Malware Analysis.
• Knowledge of Malware kill chain and MITRE ATT&CK techniques and tactics.
• Knowledge of AV evasion techniques and Pen testing tools like - Veil (equal rank), PowerShell Empire, Meterpreter, Unicorn, Cactus Torch, and Any other similar tools
• Additionally, Experience with advanced persistent threats, human adversary compromises and incident response.
• Excellent cross-group and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate business need for detection improvements.
• Excellent analytical skills and ability to identify patterns and trends.
• Strong research skills, data knowledge, and ability to analyze and present complex data in a meaningful way.
• Strong understanding of Cyber Security, modern security problems and threat landscape, Operating Systems (internals), computer networking concepts.

Required Skills:

Olly DBG, IDA PRO, Static and dynamic malware analysis, PE and non-PE file analysis