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Senior Malware Analyst

Recorded Future· Engineering: Cyber Operations
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Gothenburg, Swedenfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Malware Analyst responsible for triage, static/dynamic analysis, YARA rule development, and feature improvements for Recorded Future’s malware analysis sandbox (Triage). Analyzes malware samples across Windows, macOS, and Android to produce actionable intelligence and detections.

Responsibilities

  • Triage and investigate samples surfaced by the sandbox to discover new and emerging malware families.
  • Perform static and dynamic analysis of malicious samples across Windows, macOS, and/or Android platforms.
  • Write and maintain YARA rules to reliably detect malware families and variants.
  • Develop and maintain configuration extractors to pull actionable intelligence (C2 servers, campaign IDs, encryption keys, etc.) from malware samples.
  • Validate and tune detections to minimize false positives.
  • Improve analysis methodology and tooling.
  • Influence sandbox features based on malware research.

Qualifications

  • Solid understanding of how sandbox systems work (behavioral analysis, hooking, monitoring, evasion detection, etc.)
  • Strong knowledge of internals of Windows, Android, or macOS (multiple is a plus) - process/memory model, file formats, APIs, OS-level mechanisms abused by malware.
  • Practical experience writing YARA rules, behavioral detection, and config extractors.
  • Strong skills in Assembly language
  • Comfortable working asynchronously and independently.
  • Familiarity with the Go programming language
  • Prior experience contributing to public or private detection rule sets

Skills

Required:YARA rule writingStatic and dynamic malware analysisSandbox technologiesAssembly language
Nice to have:Go programming
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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