Asd4, 5, 6 - Malware, Intrusion and Threat Hunter

3 weeks ago

Canberra, Australia Australian Signals Directorate Full time

**The Role**

Technical Threats and Visibility Branch is seeking Malware, Intrusion and Threat Hunter Analysts to join teams responsible for analysing network traffic and host activity to identify anomalous behaviour, and reverse engineering malware.

The teams develop and mature detection capabilities and analytical tradecraft to further the ACSC’s understanding of adversaries targeting Australia. We want you to join our team to assist the ACSC to defend against advanced threats.

These are technical roles, requiring an aptitude for complex problem solving and a curiosity for understanding the functionality, origin and potential impacts of malware. We want you to reverse-engineer malware, and develop analytic automation and tools to defend Australian networks against malicious threats.

While formal experience in incident management, malware or intrusion analysis is desirable, the ACSC is also interested in applicants looking at getting into this field with demonstrable experience in software development, programming, mathematics, or computer sciences, and are interested in solving puzzles.

Further enquiries about the position can be made to the Contact Officer on 02 5130 0214

**About the Team**

The ACSC invites you to take the next step in your career.

We are looking for individuals with a passion for understanding, discovering and countering cyber threats impacting Australia and its interests.

The Technical Threats and Visibility Branch in the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) detects adversaries targeting or exploiting Australian networks, and analysing the technical tools and tradecraft they employ. The ACSC uses this deep understanding to defend and disrupt malicious threats from cyber threat actors.

We have vacancies in specialist teams who:

- Reverse engineer malware and develop their own sophisticated tools to do so
- Hunt for cyber intrusions on priority Australian networks, using cutting-edge tools and detections
- Support the systems and processes required to collect, transform, enrich and distribute Cyber Threat Intelligence, including with Australian industry.

These teams are located across Brisbane, Canberra & Melbourne.

Further enquiries about the position can be made to the Contact Officer on 02 5130 0214.

We are looking for individuals who can demonstrate skills in one or more of the following areas:
**Intrusion and Threat Hunter Analysts**
- Understanding and experience with network traffic and protocol analysis; and ability to analyse network traffic and identify anomalous behaviour.
- Understanding of operating systems principles (such as Windows and Linux) and the underlying features such as file systems, memory, processes and threads, registry and scripting engines.
- Understanding and experience with extraction and analysis of host information to determine entity behaviour such as system or user interactions, malware infection and unauthorised behaviours.
- Understanding and experience in analysing large volumes of data to draw out useful information.
- The ability to communicate technical knowledge in a concise manner to a non-technical audience.
- An understanding of malware, how to identify, triage and perform dynamic analysis.
- An understanding of how an adversary would manipulate operating system features for malicious purposes.
- An understanding of obfuscation techniques, how an adversary would disguise data, behaviour or activity.

**Malware Analysis**
- Familiarity with Microsoft OS internals and APIs.
- Experience with assembly (in particular x86 and x64 instruction sets) or low level programming languages such as C.
- Experience in high level programming and scripting languages (Python preferred).
- Proficiency with reverse engineering tools (dissassemblers, debuggers, decompilers and Yara).
- Understanding of malware reverse engineering processes including unpacking, deobfuscation and code reconstruction.
- Ability to develop and enhance automation tools to assist the malware analysis process.
- Ability to develop and modify signatures to detect and hunt for malware at scale.

The following skills are desirable but not essential for the role:

- Experience and knowledge of malicious adversary lifecycles: MITRE ATT&CK framework, cyber kill chain etc.
- Experience with host-based forensic analysis and the ability to determine malicious behaviours on a system.
- Experience with information assurance practices: cyber hygiene and how to defend networks against attacks.
- Experience in any of these fields: intrusion detection, threat hunting, incident response, malware analysis, penetration testing.
- Experience in platforms other than Microsoft Windows (e.g Linux, Android, iOS, MacOS)
- Experience in instruction sets other than listed above e.g ARM, MIPS.
- Understanding and experience with DevOps processes and environment.

It is highly desirable that you have computer science related tertiary qualifications.

**At the ASD 4 level**, you must demonstrate ex

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