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McAfee is looking for a vulnerability researcher who has hands-on experience with exploit analysis, evasion, and verification.

The candidates will be expected:
-to analyze newly discovered exploit samples of various types( malicious URIs, emails, documents such as PDF, Office files, Jscript,etc)
-analyze evasions and verify whether a new samples or exploit is actually a 0-day or has been previously categorized.
-to stay on top of latest outbreaks, and establish connections with other researchers to gather exploits as quickly as they are seen in the wild.

Essential
•Should have relevant experience of 2-3 years
•2-3 years of vulnerability/exploit root-cause analysis via manual research and tool development in the area of client-side attacks (websites, jscript, file-format vulnerabilities)
•Strong written and verbal communication and reporting skills.

Desirable

•Background in the following: Malware (windows PE file) analysis via manual analysis and tool development.
•Network traffic analysis of malware activity.
•Strong scripting experience with Perl/Python/Shell-script

Thanks
Vivek

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