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ARCHIVE_CORRUPT
What it means
The file has a ZIP signature but could not be opened.
Why it fires
The archive appears to be a ZIP file based on its header bytes, but the internal structure is invalid. It may be corrupt, truncated, or deliberately malformed to exploit vulnerabilities in ZIP parsers.
Other Archive heuristics
ARCHIVE_CHILD_MALICIOUS ARCHIVE_MALICIOUS_EXECUTABLE ARCHIVE_AUTOCAD_AUTOLISP_BUNDLE ARCHIVE_JAVA_RESOURCE_EXECUTABLE_LAUNCH ARCHIVE_ENCRYPTED_KNOWN_PASSWORD ARCHIVE_ENCRYPTED_SUSPICIOUS_DELIVERY ARCHIVE_TRUNCATED_EXECUTABLE_MEMBER ARCHIVE_DOCUMENT_DOUBLE_EXTENSION_EXECUTABLE ARCHIVE_ANDROID_PACKED_DYNAMIC_DEX ARCHIVE_SCAN_INCOMPLETE ARCHIVE_COMPILED_AUTOLISP_CODE ARCHIVE_ENCRYPTED ARCHIVE_RECOVERED_MEMBER_IOCS ARCHIVE_PE_ZIP_POLYGLOT ARCHIVE_SIZE_LIMIT ARCHIVE_TRUNCATED_PARTIAL_CONTENTS ARCHIVE_CONTAINS_EXECUTABLE ARCHIVE_ANDROID_RESOURCE_ONLY_SPLIT ARCHIVE_LIMIT ARCHIVE_LARGE_ENTRY