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Malware Analyst

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Malware Analysts reverse-engineer malicious binaries to understand attacker capabilities, extract indicators of compromise, and publish YARA signatures that protect downstream defences. In India, they work at AV vendors (Quick Heal, K7 Computing), multinational product houses (Symantec India GCC, McAfee India, Trend Micro India), large-bank and fintech in-house threat-intel teams, and CERT-In research units. The role demands fluency in both static analysis — disassembling PE/ELF/APK binaries in IDA Pro, Ghidra, or Binary Ninja — and dynamic analysis in sandboxed environments such as Cuckoo, Any.Run, and Joe Sandbox. Analysts who reach the principal level at a GCC or global product house command salaries comparable to senior SDE-3 engineers, driven by the acute shortage of practitioners who can unpack obfuscated loaders, defeat anti-VM checks, and map malware behaviour to MITRE ATT&CK at the sub-technique level.

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