Malware.Heuristic
ThreatDown is now the name of the Malwarebytes line of business products. References to Malwarebytes below reflect the amazing technology used to first identify the threat.
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.
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.