Malware.Heuristic

Short bio

Malware.Heuristic.(id-nr) are heuristic detection names produced by Malwarebytes 4 and Malwarebytes business products. The heuristic detections are done by non-signature based heuristics. This technique was developed by Malwarebytes for signatureless detection of zero-day (0-day) threats.

The id-nr is usually a few digits long.

 

Types of infection

Based on closer determination, items detected as Malware.Heuristic can be categorized more precisely based on their behavior. Malwarebytes uses the underlying threat categories:

• Adware
• Fraudtool
• Hijack
• Ransomware
• Riskware
• Rogue
• Rootkit
• Spyware
• Trojan
• Virus
• Worm

 

Protection

Malwarebytes detects unknown threats as Malware.Heuristic by using sandboxing and other emulation techniques without any specific detection rules to protect users from malware that has not yet been researched and classified. This helps protect our customers against 0-day malware.