Source: cirosantilli/cia-2010-covert-communication-websites/ssl-certificate

= SSL certificate
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The <CGI comms> websites contain the only occurrence of HTTPS, so it might open up the door for a certificate fingerprint as proposed by user joelcollinsdc at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36280801[]!

https://crt.sh appears to be a good way to look into this:
* backstage.musical-fortune.net:
  * https://crt.sh/?q=backstage.musical-fortune.net
  * https://crt.sh/?id=1412501
* clients.smart-travel-consultant.com
  * https://crt.sh/?q=clients.smart-travel-consultant.com
  * https://crt.sh/?id=34910476
* members.it-proonline.com
  * https://crt.sh/?q=members.it-proonline.com
  * https://crt.sh/?id=34166798
* members.metanewsdaily.com
  * https://crt.sh/?q=members.metanewsdaily.com
  * https://crt.sh/?id=38512637
* miembros.todosperuahora.com
  * https://crt.sh/?q=miembros.todosperuahora.com
  * https://crt.sh/?id=34584314
* secure.altworldnews.com
  * https://crt.sh/?q=secure.altworldnews.com
  * https://crt.sh/?id=1326989
* secure.driversinternationalgolf.com
  * https://crt.sh/?id=1855125
  * https://crt.sh/?id=34240083
* secure.freshtechonline.com
  * https://crt.sh/?q=secure.freshtechonline.com
  * https://crt.sh/?id=34560115
* secure.globalnewsbulletin.com
  * https://crt.sh/?q=secure.globalnewsbulletin.com
  * https://crt.sh/?id=774803
* secure.negativeaperture.com
  * https://crt.sh/?q=secure.negativeaperture.com
  * https://crt.sh/?id=34547778
* secure.riskandrewardnews.com
  * https://crt.sh/?id=33737677
  * https://crt.sh/?id=1140907
* secure.theworld-news.net
* secure.topbillingsite.com
* secure.worldnewsandent.com
* ssl.beyondnetworknews.com
* ssl.newtechfrontier.com
* www.businessexchangetoday.com
* heal.conquermstoday.com
They all appear to use either of:
* Go Daddy
* Thawte DV SSL CA
* Starfield Technologies, Inc.

https://crt.sh/?q=globalnewsbulletin.com has a hit to: https://crt.sh/?id=774803[]. With login we can see: https://search.censys.io/certificates/5078bce356a8f8590205ae45350b27f58f4ac04478ed47a389a55b539065cee8[]. Issued by https://www.thawte.com/repository/index.html[]. No hits for certificates with same public key: https://search.censys.io/search?resource=certificates&q=parsed.subject_key_info.fingerprint_sha256%3A+714b4a3e8b2f555d230a92c943ced4f34b709b39ed590a6a230e520c273705af[] or any other "same" queries though.

Let's try another one for secure.altworldnews.com: https://search.censys.io/certificates/e88f8db87414401fd00728db39a7698d874dbe1ae9d88b01c675105fabf69b94[]. Nope, no direct mega hits here either.