Domain Fronting, Abuse and Hiding

What is Domain Fronting?

Domain fronting is a technique in which a client conceals the true intended destination of an HTTPS request from censors and network security filters by “fronting” the request with a TLS connection to a different domain than that set in the request’s host header, both hosted on the same CDN service. In layman terms, an attacker hides an HTTPS request to a bad site inside a TLS connection to a good site.

It is usually performed …

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