It refers to the automatic forwarding of a user or system request from one domain to another destination. Redirects can occur through HTTP response headers, JavaScript scripts, meta refresh tags, or chained links. While many redirects are legitimate, malicious infrastructures often use them to conceal their true targets or to evade reputation-based filtering.
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It refers to the automatic forwarding of a user or system request from one domain to another destination. Redirects can occur through HTTP response headers, JavaScript scripts, meta refresh tags, or chained links. While many redirects are legitimate, malicious infrastructures often use them to conceal their true targets or to evade reputation-based filtering.
Because redirect patterns are commonly abused in phishing, malvertising, and exploit delivery chains. Threat actors may use multiple intermediate redirects to hide the origin or to deliver a final malicious payload only after several hops. Detecting and mapping redirect paths can reveal the full infection chain and infrastructure relationships.
Redirects that point directly to raw IP addresses instead of domain names are highly unusual for legitimate web services. Threat actors use them to bypass domain-based filters, obscure attribution, or directly connect victims to command-and-control (C2) servers or phishing infrastructure.
A realistic shape of the entry the engine appends to the risk_signals array when this signal fires. Evidence keys are subgroup-default; per-signal overrides documented in the API reference.
{
"slug": "redirect",
"name": "Malicious Redirect Behavior",
"group": "http_crawling_history",
"subgroup": "web_behavior_structure",
"direction": "malicious",
"evidence": {
"url_shortener_chain": false,
"auto_refresh_seconds": null,
"direct_ip_link": false,
"browser_interaction_required": true
}
}7 other signals share the same subgroup. They detect related behaviors and often co-fire on the same IOC.
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