CIA 2010 covert communication websites iraniangoals.com JavaScript reverse engineering Updated 2025-05-13 +Created 1970-01-01
Some reverse engineering was done at: twitter.com/hackerfantastic/status/1575505438111571969?lang=en.
Notably, the password is hardcoded and its hash is stored in the JavaScript itself. The result is then submitted back via a POST request to
/cgi-bin/goal.cgi.TODO: how is the SHA calculated? Appears to be manual.
CIA 2010 covert communication websites The Reuters websites Updated 2025-05-13 +Created 1970-01-01
The Reuters article directly reported only two domains in writing:
- iraniangoals.com. Iranian language football website. As of 2023, the domain had been bought by Reuters and redirects to their website.
But by looking at the URLs of the screenshots they provided from other websites we can easily uncover all others that had screenshots, except for the Johnny Carson one, which is just generically named. E.g. the image for the Chinese one is www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/assets/usa-spies-iran/screencap-activegaminginfo.com.jpg?v=192516290922 which leads us to domain activegaminginfo.com.
Oleg Shakirov later discovered that the Carson one had its domain written right on the screenshot, as part of a watermark present on the original website itself. Therefore the URLs of all the websites were in one way or another essentially given on the article.
The full list of domains from screenshots is:
- 2011 archive: web.archive.org/web/20110208113503/http://activegaminginfo.com/. Contains mentions of 2010.
- As of 2023, it seemed to be an actual legit photography website by German (amateur?) photographer Klaus Wägele. Archive: web.archive.org/web/20230323102504/https://www.capture-nature.com/Ciro Santilli actually sent him a message to let him know about the CIA thing in case he didn't, and he replied that he wasn't aware of it.
- 2011 archive: web.archive.org/web/20110201164741/https://www.headlines2day.com/. Dated "Copyright 2009".
fitness-dawg.com: English fitness website.2021 archive: web.archive.org/web/20110207104044/http://fitness-dawg.com/.Domain available as of 2023.rastadirect.net: English Rastafari culture website.Domain available as of 2023.- 2011 archive: web.archive.org/web/20110203021315/http://fightwithoutrules.com/. Contains mentions of 2009 news.Domain available as of 2023.
- 2004 archive: web.archive.org/web/20040113025122/http://alljohnny.com/.Domain available as of 2023.