General heuristics

22 detection rules

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PDF/ZIP bundle contains child CVE exploit critical POLYGLOT_PDF_APPENDED_ZIP_CVE_BUNDLE
A ZIP appended after PDF EOF contains a member that matches a CVE rule.
Extracted File ClamAV high EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
Extracted child file matched a ClamAV malware signature.
GIF-header file contains embedded PDF body high POLYGLOT_GIF_PDF_FORCEDENTRY_SHAPE
File starts with GIF magic but contains a PDF body at a later offset.
Three or more independent structural-anomaly heuristics fired on this file.
Non-PDF with .pdf extension high PDF_EXTENSION_MISMATCH
File was submitted as .pdf but does not contain a PDF header.
PDF with appended ZIP archive high POLYGLOT_PDF_ZIP_APPENDED
ZIP local-file header appears after the last %%EOF in a PDF.
Suspicious extracted artifact high EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
A file carved from inside the sample matched static suspicious-content checks.
Tag-set historically associated with malicious files high CORPUS_HISTORICALLY_MALICIOUS
This combination of heuristics has fired multiple times before, mostly on malicious files.
%PDF- magic and %%EOF trailer found inside a text document.
Non-empty bytes precede the first ZIP local-file header.
Format Neutral Scan medium FORMAT_NEUTRAL_SCAN
Format-neutral static scan produced the finding.
PowerPoint Fopt Complex Data Overflow medium PPT_FOPT_COMPLEX_DATA_OVERFLOW
PowerPoint record anomaly: PowerPoint Fopt Complex Data Overflow.
PowerPoint Fopt Property Table Truncated medium PPT_FOPT_PROPERTY_TABLE_TRUNCATED
PowerPoint record anomaly: PowerPoint Fopt Property Table Truncated.
Rare heuristic combination, previously flagged medium CORPUS_RARE_COMBINATION
An unusual combination of heuristics that has been flagged on at least one prior file.
Rare structural feature combination, previously flagged medium CORPUS_RARE_STRUCTURAL_FEATURE_SET
Normalized parser/payload feature set is rare and has appeared on a flagged file before.
Analysis timed out (partial result) info ANALYSIS_TIMEOUT_PARTIAL
Analysis exceeded the wall-clock timeout; phases that had completed before the timeout are preserved.
Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
One or more URLs were extracted from the document bytes but were not attributed to any other specific heuristic.
Macro validly signed by an identified publisher info MACRO_VALID_PUBLISHER_SIGNATURE
A capability-only Office macro carries a cryptographically valid, CA-issued (non-self-signed) VBA publisher signature and nothing corroborates malice, so its score was downgraded to clean.
Optional analysis stages skipped (soft budget) info SCAN_OPTIONAL_STAGES_SKIPPED
Core static analysis completed; optional late-stage decoders were skipped after the per-file soft deadline.
PDF appended ZIP child scan incomplete info POLYGLOT_PDF_APPENDED_ZIP_SCAN_INCOMPLETE
A ZIP appended after PDF EOF could not be fully scanned.
Scan did not complete info SCAN_INCOMPLETE
A scanner failed, timed out, or hit an output/resource cap before analysis completed.
Unrecognised file format info UNKNOWN_FORMAT
File format was not recognised by the analyzer.