TSG's application-fingerprinting engine matches 'FlyVPN' via a combination of IP-address and FQDN/port feature objects (each independently versioned/timestamped); a false-positive bug investigation confirms the live traffic-classification component is called 'sapp' and that restarting it is a standard troubleshooting step for signature drift.
Application name:FlyVPN_20240619,特征1配置为IP,特征2配置为FQDN and port(443)。...方案2:重启sapp应用,查询日志是否持续出现FlyVPN_20240619'误匹配'的现象
Defense implications
- App-ID signatures combine IP + FQDN + port, not payload alone — infrastructure reuse (shared IPs/domains across app updates) is a likely source of detection, independent of protocol obfuscation.
Related findings
A dedicated internal "运营商前端分析团队" (Carrier Front-end Analysis Team) produces weekly, carrier-specific traffic-analysis reports explicitly titled "新疆移动流量分析报告" (Xinjiang Mobile Traffic Analysis Report) and "新疆联通流量分析报告" (Xinjiang Unicom Traffic Analysis Report), with instances dated from at least July 2022 through March 2024. One instance (Xinjiang Mobile, 2023-05-15) reports total carrier bandwidth of 4.4Tbps (1Tbps access bandwidth), 27.34PB of weekly throughput, 123 distinct identified application-layer protocols, and a section (4.1, pages 17+) explicitly tracking server IP/location for 28 named overseas apps (BBC, Discord, ESPN, Facebook, Gmail, Google, Hulu, Instagram, Netflix, Reddit, Skype, Telegram, Twitter, Uber, WhatsApp, Wikipedia, YouTube, Zoom, etc.).
Dozens of weekly "Tiangou Secure Gateway" auto-generated reports ("SNI Report of Overseas APP" / "Server IP and Location of Overseas APP") in this batch break out per-application SNI and server-IP/geolocation tables for Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Telegram, WhatsApp, Viber, Snapchat, Signal-adjacent messaging apps, and others, at up to 828 TB/week and 12+ Tbps peak processed traffic -- direct operational evidence of continuous, automated, per-app SNI-based classification of outbound "overseas app" traffic at production scale.
TSG runs a recurring, fully-automated weekly analytics job -- literally titled 'Tiangou Secure Gateway SNI Report of Overseas APP' and a companion 'Tiangou Secure Gateway Server IP and Location of Overseas APP' report -- that processes roughly 300 billion to 10 trillion traffic rows per week and produces per-platform SNI and server-IP/location breakdowns (Top10/Top50) for YouTube, Facebook, Google, Twitter, Instagram, Telegram, WhatsApp, Viber, Line, Messenger, Snapchat, Gmail, HBO, Netflix, Discord, BBC, Bigo, ESPN, and Hulu, plus a dedicated Top-100 SNI table for QUIC-protocol traffic.
An internal TSG operations/troubleshooting manual lays out TSG's full traffic pipeline (NIC -> mrzcpd/marsio capture driver -> sapp DPI engine -> firewall/proxy(KNI->TFE)/active-defense/WAN-NAT policy branches) and shows engineers using maat_redis_tool to pull the live Redis-synced blocking policy tables (TSG_SECURITY_COMPILE, TSG_OBJ_IP_ADDR, TSG_OBJ_APP_ID) and filter them by numeric policy/object ID to debug why a block rule isn't firing.
The internal 'MAAT网络流处理配置统一描述框架' engineering manual (v3.1.20, author 郑超, 2021) documents MAAT's Redis-synced rule-compilation framework and its RuleScan/Hyperscan-based pattern-matching engine (libmaatframe.so / librulescan), and records that RuleScan's fast-scan feature caused a production outage on 2019-03-19 and has been disabled ever since.
TSG automatically generates recurring weekly "SNI Report of Overseas APP" and companion "Server IP and Location of Overseas APP" reports at what is almost certainly a China-national (not export-customer) scale — single weekly runs process from ~5.7 trillion to over 135 billion rows and up to ~775TB/week — breaking down QUIC.SNI/SSL.SNI/HTTP.Host traffic per named blocked-in-China platform (YouTube, Facebook, Google, Twitter, Instagram, Telegram, WhatsApp, Netflix, BBC, Viber, Line, Snapchat, Gmail, HBO, and more), down to individual CDN edge hostnames (e.g. specific scontent-*.fbcdn.net and rr*---sn-*.googlevideo.com nodes ranked by bytes). The report series recurs weekly from at least Feb 2023 through Mar 2024.