Offensive Security Researcher(Malware and Red Teaming)

Globals Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Impactful cyber defense projects

Global collaboration and thought-lead

Research publication opportunities

Flexible work culture

Job summary

Globals Inc. is seeking a Malware & Threat Intelligence Researcher to join its Offensive Security team. You will analyze advanced malware campaigns, reverse-engineer threats, monitor dark web activity, and craft threat intelligence for red/blue teams.

The role covers malware emulation, threat hunting, and tool development to power strategic intelligence. A strong background in reverse engineering and scripting is essential.

Qualifications

• 5-9 years hands-on experience in malware analysis, threat research, or reverse engineering.
• Experience tracking APT groups and threat intel.
• Published research/blogs on threat campaigns is a plus
• Bachelor's degree in engineering or cybersecurity
• Certifications like GIAC GREM or CRTIA are a plus

Responsibilities

• Conduct in-depth malware reverse engineering across PE/.NET/Golang/Rust/PowerShell.
• Track APT groups and develop TTP profiles.
• Develop malware emulators or PoCs for red team simulations.
• Monitor darknet forums and marketplaces for threat intel.
• Create YARA rules, hunting signatures, and detection logic.
• Support threat hunting and detection engineering with IOC insights.
• Collaborate with teams to simulate threats and produce playbooks.

Skills

Malware analysis

Threat research

Reverse engineering

Scripting

Threat hunting

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Applications, Cybersecurity, or related field

GIAC GREM, CRTIA certifications

Tools

Ghidra

IDA Pro

x64dbg

OllyDbg

PEStudio

ProcMon

Wireshark

Any.Run

YARA

Sigma

Job description

About Globals:

Globals has drastically grown from a small home office to a globally recognized enterprise offering world-class quality solutions on Cybersecurity, Cyberwarfare, ERP Systems, AI, and Enterprise Application Development for various industries including Defence, Education, Government, Financial Services and Transport Industries. Globals has enabled its customers to be game-changers in their industry through its disruptive and innovative solutions.

Globals is certified as a 'Great Place to Work' organization for its laudable work culture that helps its team members manage work-life, have dedicated hours to upskill and reskill themselves, and most important to ensure that the projects that they are working on are always unique, challenging their status quo every time. Our unique work culture has made us one of the world’s fastest-growing technology companies as recognized and featured by The Economist.

Our excellence in technical stewardship and service-offering expertise has facilitated our clients ranging from individual entrepreneurs to Fortune Global 500 – to explore new business opportunities, reduce their operational costs significantly and boost their revenues. Today, Globals enjoys a strong position in the industry as a high-performing leader through its technology innovation and remarkable domain expertise. Globals is a CMMI Level 3 certified company.

About the Job Role:

We are seeking a Malware & Threat Intelligence Researcher to join our Offensive Security team. This role is ideal for a passionate researcher who thrives on analyzing advanced malware campaigns, reverse-engineering threats, monitoring threat actors across dark web/clearnet and APT Groups, and crafting threat intelligence that can power our red and blue teams. You will contribute to strategic threat intelligence, malware emulation, threat hunting, and tool development.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct in-depth malware reverse engineering (PE, .NET, Golang, Rust, PowerShell, Batch, VBS, etc.)
• Track APT groups, develop TTP profiles, and perform contextual threat intelligence.
• Develop malware emulators or PoCs and scripts for red team simulations or cyber ranges.
• Monitor darknet forums and marketplaces, and stealer logs for actor trends and breach intelligence.
• Create YARA rules, hunting signatures, and detection logic based on static/dynamic analysis.
• Support threat hunting and detection engineering teams with enriched IOC and behavioural insights.
• Collaborate with internal teams to simulate real-world threats, analyze telemetry, and produce attack playbooks.

Requirements

• Knowledge of packers, obfuscation, encryption, and anti-debugging techniques
• 5-9 years of hands-on experience in malware analysis, threat research, or reverse engineering.
• Experience with APT tracking, malware campaign documentation, or C2 hunting.
• Published research/blogs on threat campaigns is a plus
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Applications, Cybersecurity, or related field.
• Certifications like GIAC GREM, CRTIA, or similar are a plus
• Reverse engineering: Ghidra, IDA Pro, x64dbg, OllyDbg
• Scripting: C++, Golang, Python
• Malware Analysis: PEStudio, ProcMon, Wireshark, FakeNet, Any.Run
• Threat Intel: FOFA, Validin, Censys, VirusTotal, Telegram, Darknet forums
• YARA, Sigma, OSINT tools
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK framework and Threat Intel Platforms (TIPs)
• Understanding of EDR tampering, living-off-the-land binaries (LOLBins), C2 infrastructure

Benefits

• Work on high-impact cyber defense and cyberwarfare initiatives.
• Publish and present your research to a global audience.
• Collaborate with National Cybersecurity Coordinator’s Office, CERT-IN, DRDO, and other National Security Agencies focused on Cybersecurity.
• Enjoy flexibility, innovation-driven culture, and recognition for thought leadership.