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Thanks, that's pretty much all I was looking for. Was able to reproduce but then started getting 429s.


I reproduced it too but was hoping to get a log, now all I get is 429 as well.

Just for the sake of preserving what I did see, the URL linked in the text was:

    https://archive.ph/o/jXv3A/https://schenklawfirm.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/wan-v-openai-complaint.pdf
and that now seems to have been purged from the archive.today cache, as this page says "No results":

https://archive.ph/https://schenklawfirm.com/wp-content/uplo...


You get 429 if you visit the link directly. Not sure what mechanism is used to tell that, doesn't seem to be the referrer though. This does the refresh to the malware site:

  curl 'https://archive.ph/o/jXv3A/https://schenklawfirm.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/wan-v-openai-complaint.pdf' \
  --compressed \
  -H 'User-Agent: [redacted]' \
  -H 'Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8' \
  -H 'Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9' \
  -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br, zstd' \
  -H 'Connection: keep-alive' \
  -H 'Cookie: [redacted but you dont need it actually]' \
  -H 'Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1' \
  -H 'Sec-Fetch-Dest: document' \
  -H 'Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate' \
  -H 'Sec-Fetch-Site: cross-site' \
  -H 'Sec-Fetch-User: ?1' \
  -H 'Priority: u=0, i' \
  -H 'TE: trailers' \
  -H 'Pragma: no-cache' \
  -H 'Cache-Control: no-cache' -v

Interesting. Same behavior here with a generic User-Agent and no Cookie header at all.

Response headers mention an onion-location and link to stolidityseashellshotter... but also mementoweb... pretty strange. Most generously, maybe some kind of cache poison instead of explicit bad behavior?


The page has other links that all go to archive.today. Seems like any link to a PDF causes this to happen. https://archive.ph/Y6BOX near "Download the PDF, which contains the dolls and all of the looks, here." Wonder if it's all links in general that aren't archived.



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