A MESA Lab traffic-fingerprinting dossier builds DPI detection material for third-party remote-access/tunneling software (Sunlogin/花生壳, TeamViewer, and a self-hosted OpenVPN test deployment) by cataloguing each tool's domains/IPs, TLS SNI values, HTTP User-Agent and Host headers, and UDP ports, with traffic captured and labeled per discrete user action (login, add device, start remote session, quit, logout) — exactly the raw material an app-identification signature system would be built from.

Exported AppSketch/MAAT signature-object JSON shows named per-VPN detection rules combining multiple independent vectors: CyberGhost's WireGuard variant is matched by a hex UDP-payload pattern (04000000*), destination port 1337, and ip.proto=17 together (signature cyberghostvpn_wireguard); Windscribe's OpenVPN control channel is matched by two offset-anchored hex byte patterns plus an exact 86-byte payload length (windscribevpn_openvpn_payload); and ExpressVPN is matched independently via a literal JA3 hash (ssl.analysis.ja3), FQDN strings (expressapisv2.com, www.expressvpn.works), and a large enumerated IP list (700+ individual ip.dst entries observed before the 200KB text-extraction cutoff).

An IIE CAS technical whitepaper for the "High-speed Network Traffic Processing and Analysis System" names the "MESA" team (处理架构组MESA团队, "Massive Effective Stream Analysis") as part of IIE's Second Research Office, lists deployment case studies at China's National Administration of State Secrets Protection (国家保密局), the National Computer Network and Information Security Management Center, Guangdong provincial e-government services, and CNCERT (国家互联网应急中心), and gives a named IIE contact (name/phone/email redacted here). The product classifies behavior inside encrypted tunnels (remote control, audio/video calls, encrypted mail, VPN) and dozens of IM/social apps via SSL/SSH/IPSEC/QUIC/SOCKS protocol detection.

An internal app-fingerprint engineering document (identical content filed under two separate artifact ids) catalogs precise per-action (login/create/upload/ download/share/delete) DNS, SNI, and certificate-CN signatures for identifying use of specific cloud-collaboration apps from traffic alone, covering foreign platforms Zoom and Office365 alongside domestic apps (Huawei WeLink, Feishu, DingTalk, WeCom, Shimo Docs, CSTCloud drive), using tools like myssl.com for active certificate/IP verification of each signature.

Raw TSG session_record export logs dated Nov 2024, tagged device_group 'YGN-MYTEL' (Yangon, Mytel), directly corroborate the leak's M22=Myanmar/Mytel/Yangon site-codename mapping with live production data: individual SSL sessions are classified by app as 'Hotspot Shield VPN' (destination get.adobe.com, likely a fronting/CDN endpoint) and allowed under a named whitelist rule 'whitelist_102024', geolocated client-side as Myanmar.Yangon.Yangon.

A product brochure for IIE's "高速网络流量处理分析系统" (High-Speed Network Traffic Processing and Analysis System) -- built by the same MESA team (处理架构组) that develops sapp/TSG -- advertises identification of SSL/SSH/IPSEC/IKE/QUIC/SOCKS encrypted protocols, of behaviors inside encrypted tunnels including VPN use and encrypted email, and of dozens of IM/social apps by name (WeChat, QQ, WhatsApp, Instagram, Twitter, Messenger). It is deployed at China's National Administration of State Secrets Protection, the National Computer Network and Information Security Management Center, and Guangdong's provincial e-government data bureau, processing 20 Tbps across 50,000+ devices since 2002.

The Transformer_master.h header (part of the Maat/sapp DPI framework, dated 2023-05-04) defines a region-keyed DNS response-forgery subsystem (MSG_OPT_DNS_CHEAT_TYPE/RCODE/STRATEGY/RECORD/TTL, DNS_FAKE_INFO/DNS_FAKE_IP tables, TF_get_dns_response_strategy_id(user_region)) used specifically by the block ("FD") action path, plus a dedicated function to classify whether a detected L7 protocol is a VPN (TF_is_L7_vpn_prot), and native extraction of TLS JA3/JA3S client and server fingerprints.