[Masque] MASQUE detection through tracking trackers

Töma Gavrichenkov <ximaera@gmail.com> Tue, 05 November 2019 16:50 UTC

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Subject: [Masque] MASQUE detection through tracking trackers
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Peace,

A good friend of mine has been talking recently to a DPI vendor sales
folk.  Their appliance earned some good results in a testbed environment
involving weekly packet captures from an actual Internet access provider.
The particular brand is not important.

Basically their product works as follows.  First, it has a collection of IP
addresses and some behavioral patterns of an order of hundreds to thousands
of typical external resources Web sites use: CDNs, trackers (Google
Analytics, Newrelic, JQuery, Recaptcha, to name a few, but there are more),
etc.  The list is meant to be being updated once in a few days if not hours.

Then, if a client establishes a number of active bandwidth-heavy
connections to remote servers but doesn't connect to a statistically
significant number of those trackers within some timeframe (the thresholds
are also being regularly updated I think), then it assumed to be using a
VPN.  All the established sessions (no matter if it's TCP or UDP) are
dropped and the former endpoints (except some) are greylisted and reported,
and the subsequent HTTP[S] connection establishment attempts get a redirect
to a Web page which tells the user to switch off the VPN connection.

The story: test runs have shown that false positives account for much less
than 1% of the users, those mostly being the ones using self-hosted NASes
and/or NoScript-enabled browsers.  Evidently, NoScript is not only
unpopular but most of said browsers are run by people who connect through
VPNs anyway, therefore further limiting potential false positives.

The vendor claims they don't look into DNS payload and analyse TLS
parameters only marginally, and solution is therefore fully DoH and ESNI
ready.  As far as I know, DoH- and ESNI-secured conversations were not
present in the test data set.  I haven't seen the box myself.

I wonder now how such a scenario would be considered in MASQUE and if
there's a way to work around this issue within the MASQUE deployment
guidelines.

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Töma