A Cunning Operator: Muddling Meerkat and China’s Great Firewall

The MX answer records for Muddling Meerkat are only observable in data collected outside of the normal DNS resolution chain because the source of the response is not a DNS resolver but instead a random Chinese IP address. Use servers in Chinese IP space to conduct campaigns by making DNS queries for random subdomains to a wide array of IP addresses, including open resolvers

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Reference:
https://blogs.infoblox.com/threat-intelligence/a-cunning-operator-muddling-meerkat-and-chinas-great-firewall/

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