181.78.46.78.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer min2max.run.
The domain's authoritative nameserver (Infomaniak) points vivianvoss.net at 78.46.78.181 — a Hetzner box in Germany with rDNS min2max.run. That server redirects HTTP to SafeBrowse.io and responds to TLS handshakes with garbage. Not a local issue, not a DNS hijack — the A record itself is wrong.
And the logs show it is going to the same address:
* Established connection to vivianvoss.net (78.46.78.181 port 443) from 172.16.245.55 port 36208
Any chance you're a comcast xfinity customer? Searching for safebrowse.io shows that xfinity "advanced security" does this whole redirect to safebrowse.io.
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Unrelated, but the site also returns an AAAA record for an ipv6 address that does not work. So they've misconfigured their server in that regard.
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so .. if i'm getting this right, this is an article about security, but the author can't be bothered to configure https correctly?
What'd they get wrong? Firefox and curl aren't reporting any TLS errors for me.
$ dig vivianvoss.net A +short @ns11.infomaniak.ch.
78.46.78.181
$ curl -v https://vivianvoss.net/ 2>&1 | tail -3
* OpenSSL/3.0.13: error:0A00010B:SSL routines::wrong version number
* Closing connection
curl: (35) OpenSSL/3.0.13: error:0A00010B:SSL routines::wrong version number
$ curl -v http://vivianvoss.net/ 2>&1 | grep Location
< Location: https://www.safebrowse.io/warn.html?url=http://vivianvoss.ne...
$ whois 78.46.78.181 | grep -i netname
netname: HETZNER-RZ-NBG-NET
$ host 78.46.78.181
181.78.46.78.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer min2max.run.
The domain's authoritative nameserver (Infomaniak) points vivianvoss.net at 78.46.78.181 — a Hetzner box in Germany with rDNS min2max.run. That server redirects HTTP to SafeBrowse.io and responds to TLS handshakes with garbage. Not a local issue, not a DNS hijack — the A record itself is wrong.
Hmm so oddly enough this works fine for me:
And the logs show it is going to the same address: Any chance you're a comcast xfinity customer? Searching for safebrowse.io shows that xfinity "advanced security" does this whole redirect to safebrowse.io.--
Unrelated, but the site also returns an AAAA record for an ipv6 address that does not work. So they've misconfigured their server in that regard.
Some further digging ...
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$ dig vivianvoss.net A +short @8.8.8.8
78.46.78.181
$ curl -v4 https://vivianvoss.net/ 2>&1 | grep -E "Connected|error"
* Connected to vivianvoss.net (78.46.78.181) port 443
* OpenSSL/3.0.13: error:0A00010B:SSL routines::wrong version number
$ curl -s https://ipinfo.io | grep org
"org": "AS7922 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC",
Same IP you're hitting, same port, but Comcast's xFi Advanced Security seems to be MITMing the connection before TLS completes.
I hate Comcast so much ...