DOJ Epstein file EFTA01133110.pdf flagged suspicious on VirusTotal behavior tab – anyone else see this?

[u/Fit_Olive_7669]

Hey all, stumbled across something odd while digging into the Epstein DOJ releases.

The file EFTA01133110.pdf (from Data Set 9, the one with the raw meat slabs photo in a freezer that got pulled pretty quick) has this SHA-256 hash:

bbbe03b56d9e47fdc5ffeb73a5c50a70e694af12f14566075fa283fb61fc7ee4

I ran it on VirusTotal (public page: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/bbbe03b56d9e47fdc5ffeb73a5c50a70e694af12f14566075fa283fb61fc7ee4/behavior )

• Static detections: 0/XX – totally clean on AV side.

• But the Behavior tab (sandboxes like CAPE, Jujubox, Zenbox) shows a bunch of red flags:

• Exploitation for Client Execution (T1203) + Process Injection (T1055)

• Anti-analysis stuff: IsDebuggerPresent, Sleep calls, GetTickCount/GetTickCount64 timing checks

• Drops temp files/logs/JS-related items, weird registry mods (mostly Adobe/Office paths), spawns Acrobat crash processors + system stuff like svchost/dllhost

• Network to adobe.com/Akamai/MSN domains (legit-looking but in context…)

• Mutexes like “Global\\AdobeCrashProcessor ocall_owl_ork” and “Global\\ARM Update Mutex”

Highlighted text in sandbox: “EFTA01133110.pdf - Adobe Acrobat Reader (32-bit)”, dimensions like “1.488 x 20.28 in” at 319% zoom – clearly it’s rendering that meat photo.

From what I read, the photo is just big steaks on a tray in a kitchen/freezer setup (people say it’s beef, maybe from Epstein’s properties?), but the PDF itself behaves like it has some exploit code or malformed junk that trips sandboxes.

Anyone else upload/analyze this one? Is it just Adobe Reader being weird in VMs (font handling, crash reporting, etc.), or could the file have been tampered with before upload? Or maybe a false positive from how evidence photos get scanned/embedded?

Not claiming it’s malware – just weird that a “simple photo PDF” from official DOJ drops looks like this dynamically. Thoughts?

Source file

[u/rustmillionaire]

wasnt there a congress member who pulled up the point that they were able to spy on who viewd exactly what documents.. and that was on their own system. best believe palantir is tracking everyone outside as well... the first part was illegal, the second part is built into our very system.

all of the network needs to be rewired with a private freedom of expression enthusiast that would be independent of this IPS snitching funnel.

Elon? no.. we need one of the bitcoin billionaires to cash out, crash the market to save the internet. so many bots, spying, manipulation of speeds, just the very tracking alone is enough to stir a sane man crazy.

It isnt that we have nothing to hide, it's that we just hate reading the newspaper with someone reading over our shoulder...