- Initial 12-month contract
- Sydney CBD location
- 4-day work week

Your role
A world leading financial institution is hiring a Malware Analyst to join their global Malware Defense Team.

What you'll do

- Respond, triage, and adapt to real-time threats targeting the organisation through the lens of malware delivery and execution.
- Perform static, dynamic, and behavioral analysis of malicious software and potential indicators of compromise.
- Maintain detailed documentation regarding analysis findings and producing comprehensive reports encompassing observations, actions taken, and recommendations.
- Identify cyber risks and help develop improvements to controls and detection mechanisms.
- Collaborate with response teams to defend against emerging threats and contribute to Incident Response efforts.

Who you are

- Malware analysis and incident response experience.
- Specific experience with triaging detections, prioritising threats, performing static and energetic analysis, identifying security gaps, and implementing preventative measures.
- Strong investigative mindset with an ability to drive process changes and implement control enhancements.
- Experience in one or more threat prevention disciplines focusing on Email, Web, or Endpoint.

Your skills

- Understanding of browser exploitation techniques.




- Familiarity of web based technologies such as Javascript or HTML and how they are commonly abused by various threat actors or techniques.
- Experience with reviewing and analysing Email Headers.
- Experience with detecting phishing and other common email threats.
- SIEM experience with event correlation and searching.
- Experience with dynamic analysis tools such as Process Monitor, FakeDNS, Regshot, or Wireshark.
- Familiarity with use and interpretation of malware analysis results from sandbox technologies.
- Technical experience and ability to operate and maintain a virtualised sandbox environment.
- Familiarity with URL categorisation and analysis tools like Fiddler, commercial sandbox, or web proxy technologies.
- Ability to assess files or URLs and extract IoCs such as malicious domains, IPs, and file hashes.
- Experience with documentation and ability to clearly articulate thoughts to a wide variety of intended audiences.
- Knowledge of EDR tools
- Knowledge of forensic artifacts such as Browser, Registry, or Event Log artifacts.

Other requirements

- Permanent Resident or an Australian citizen
- Training period: 1–2 months, Monday–Friday
- Post training roster: Wednesday to Sunday or Saturday to Wednesday

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📌 Malware Analyst (Sydney)
🏢 Talent Web
📍 Sydney