geedge.lantern.io
detection confidence: medium public

The K18-labeled platform's MAAT business-rule catalog includes explicit proxy content-manipulation rule types "PXY IP替换" (proxy IP replacement/substitution) and "PXY管控文件策略" (proxy file-control policy) alongside "PXY 证书管理" (proxy certificate management), giving concrete confirmation that the certificate-based MITM proxy (PXY) module supports IP-substitution and file-policy content manipulation, not merely pass/block/log actions.

Commit: "为理限速 IP(0x202)、代理限速域名(0x203)、PXY IP替换(0x205)、APP 主题网站配置(0x480)、PXY 证书管理(0x208)、PXY管控文件策略(0x260)添加配置文件" (add config files for proxy rate-limit IP(0x202), proxy rate-limit domain(0x203), PXY IP replacement(0x205), APP topic-website config(0x480), PXY certificate management(0x208), PXY file-control policy(0x260)), [email protected], 2018-08-21
censorskz
productscertstore
capabilitycontent-injection

extracted_by: claude-sonnet-5 · added 2026-08-26 · id: 2026-k18-pxy-content-manip-66b7a2

Related findings

deployment

Production network-topology docs for the Astana and Almaty (Kazakhstan / K18) sites show a live decrypted-traffic forwarding pipeline between an ADC front-end and an ASEM front-end over a direct fiber link, plus a distinct 'IP Spoofing' business function and dedicated static/dynamic proxy interception business lines, and a certificate-management endpoint (port 9991) — confirming operational TLS interception (MITM) infrastructure in production, not just lab capability, at both K18 sites.

deployment

K18_NTCS_WEB/NTC (git.mesalab.cn) is the Java/Spring web console for Kazakhstan's (K18) National Traffic Control System. Its domain model implements per-protocol keyword filtering (App/ASN/DNS/FTP/Mail/P2P/SSL keyword configs), an HTTPS proxy-MITM object (PxyObjTrustedCaCert.java), and explicit content-manipulation templates for HTTPS Redirect and Replace (complex/IP-based) plus Hijack/Insert actions, all managed through this customer-facing K18 control panel.

detection

An internal MESA Lab report (2021-06-25) documents a live test in which a second sapp instance ('sapp B') receives fully decrypted plaintext HTTP traffic via a Unix domain socket from a third-party TLS decryption platform, while sapp A separately captures raw ciphertext via the mrzcpd driver. 24 hours of the decrypted logs (319,569 HTTP records) show the top intercepted destinations are Facebook, Twitter, Google/YouTube and Instagram, with client IPs traced to residential China Telecom/Unicom/Mobile subscribers in Guangdong, Zhejiang and other provinces.

detection

The same 224-column TSG per-session log schema carries a full TLS- interception field set — proxy_pinning_status, proxy_intercept_status, proxy_passthrough_reason, proxy_cert_verify, proxy_intercept_error, sc_rsp_raw and sc_rsp_decrypted (raw vs. decrypted server response content) — plus ssl_esni_flag and ssl_ech_flag (explicit ECH/ESNI-usage flags), ssl_ja3_hash/ssl_ja3s_hash, and ssh_hassh (SSH client fingerprinting), confirming certstore-style MITM interception, ECH/ESNI detection, and TLS/SSH fingerprinting are all first-class fields logged on every session, not experimental add-ons.

deployment

An internal TSG troubleshooting runbook ("HTTPS证书替换策略无效果") documents the certstore MITM-certificate service actively serving/validating forged certificates keyed by SNI, walking an operator through checking certstore logs for specific real-world domains including Google's update service (update.googleapis.com) and Nvidia's GFE service (services.gfe.nvidia.com), and cross-checking keyring config live via maat_redis_tool.

detection

certstore's own commit history documents its transparent-TLS-MITM mechanics directly: it writes the client's observed SNI into the SAN field of the leaf certificate it mints on the fly, supports ECC issuance (secp192r1/secp256r1) for those forged certs, and reads its Trusted/Untrusted decryption-keyring configuration from MAAT's DECRYPTION_KEYRING table -- confirming the interception pipeline end-to-end: client SNI in, matching forged certificate out, gated by MAAT-synced keyring policy.