geedge.lantern.io
detection confidence: medium public

The same Bifang deployment manual configures an 'api' service Kafka consumer on topic 'PXY-EXCH-INTERMEDIA-CERT' (consumer group 'tsg-consumer-cert') -- an explicit proxy/intermediate-certificate exchange channel, i.e. infrastructure-level evidence of how TLS-interception certificates are distributed/synced across the TSG cluster, consistent with the certstore product's described per-connection certificate-profile system.

#api-kafka地址和端口 api_kafka_server_port: 192.168.40.224:9092 api_kafka_consumer_topic: PXY-EXCH-INTERMEDIA-CERT api_kafka_consumer_group: tsg-consumer-cert
productstsgcertstore
capabilitymitm-cert-implant

extracted_by: claude-sonnet-5 · added 2026-08-26 · id: 2026-geedge-ab-proxy-cert-exchange-kafka

Related findings

detection

Session records log MITM-proxy decision fields per session -- proxy_action, proxy_pinning_status, proxy_intercept_status, proxy_cert_verify, proxy_intercept_error, and proxy_passthrough_reason -- alongside security_rule_list/security_action and shaping_rule_list. This confirms, at the OLAP schema level, that TLS-interception outcomes (intercepted vs. passed through, including why -- e.g. detected certificate pinning) are retained per session, corroborating the certstore product's Trusted/Untrusted/Dynamic-Bypass model. Two adjacent columns, sc_rsp_raw/sc_rsp_decrypted, sit next to these but their exact semantics were not confirmed from schema alone.

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.

detection

The same ADC/TSG-OS installation guide's built-in factory acceptance test ("tsg-diagnose-oneshot") enumerates the product's certified MITM/content-manipulation actions as standard, tested features of every deployment: SSL interception with expired/self-signed/untrusted-root cert handling, and both SSL and HTTP proxy policies supporting redirect, block, replace, hijack, and insert actions, plus DNS request handling with drop and A/AAAA redirect (including TTL-range variants). This is vendor self-documentation, not inferred behavior.

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.