Location: LONDON, United Kingdom

JPMC's Malware Analysis and Applied Discovery (MAAD) team is a highly technical team specializing in analyzing malware targeting the firm and organizations around the world, while expanding the firm's cyber monitoring capabilities into new and exciting areas. We're looking for a self-motivated junior analyst with an insatiable curiosity toward all things cyber to join our team. You'll spend a majority of your time designing, developing, and building innovative capabilities, while also hunting threats, investigating anomalies, and analyzing malware, with mentoring provided by senior members of our team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conducting malware analysis and reverse engineering of suspicious code
• Performing deep dive technical analysis of cyberattack tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)
• Developing signatures to identify malware families, actor techniques, and other noteworthy code sequences
• Automating malware analysis and intelligence gathering processes
• Hunting for novel samples, indicators of compromise (IOCs), and actor TTPs in internal and external datasets
• Researching threats, vulnerabilities, and exploits to enhance monitoring and detection capabilities
• Partnering with the Incident Response (IR) teams to understand incidents and support technical analysis of malicious cyber events
• Documenting and presenting findings in comprehensive technical analysis reports
• Communicating effectively with business representatives, technology specialists, and vendors
• Assisting peer analysts in the production and dissemination of intelligence reports

• Contributing technical expertise and Cybersecurity perspectives to discussions regarding JPMC global technology infrastructure

   

   

Desired Qualifications:

• Basic coding (scripting) experience (i.e. Python, C, JavaScript, VBScript, etc.)
• Familiarity with Cloud platforms (i.e. AWS, Azure, etc.) and Virtualization technologies (i.e VMWare)
• Experience with some of the following: SIEM, SOAR, OSINT, IDA Pro, Ghidra, BinaryNinja, Wireshark, Jupyter, SQL, YARA, AWS Lambda
• A firm belief in doing what's right and following ethical practices
• Foundational understanding of Forensics, Log Analysis, Incident Response and / or Threat and Fraud Intelligence
• Knowledge in Operating Systems (i.e. Windows, Linux, Mac, Mobile), processor architectures (i.e. x86, x64), and computer networking
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to understand complex problems while formally presenting them simplistically

 

 

JPMC's Malware Analysis and Applied Discovery (MAAD) team seeks a self-motivated junior analyst with a passion for cybersecurity. This role involves designing and building innovative capabilities, hunting threats, investigating anomalies, and analyzing malware.