{"id":4494,"date":"2015-02-14T10:34:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T10:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=4494"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:00:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:00:34","slug":"symcd-com-online-certificate-status-protocol-server-owned-by-symantec-corporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/symcd-com-online-certificate-status-protocol-server-owned-by-symantec-corporation\/","title":{"rendered":"Symcd.com &#8211; Online Certificate Status Protocol Server Owned By Symantec Corporation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morning! Hope you are having a great weekend. I&#8217;ve been experimenting with some network monitoring of HTTP requests and responses in Mozilla Firefox. While playing around with one of the tools I&#8217;m evaluating I noticed a request to\u00a0<strong>gv.symcd.com:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gv.symcd_.com-connection.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4495\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gv.symcd_.com-connection.png\" alt=\"gv.symcd.com connection\" width=\"605\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gv.symcd_.com-connection.png 605w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gv.symcd_.com-connection-300x158.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had not heard of the\u00a0<strong>symcd.com<\/strong>\u00a0domain before so I got curious. The request is a &#8220;<strong>application\/ocsp-request<\/strong>&#8220;.\u00a0<strong>OCSP<\/strong>\u00a0is a abbreviation for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Online_Certificate_Status_Protocol\"><b>Online Certificate Status Protocol<\/b><\/a>\u00a0and it is an Internet protocol\u00a0used for retrieve\u00a0the revocation status of a digital certificate.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what the symcd.com\u00a0connection is about: Checking the\u00a0revocation state for some \u00a0certificate. The tool I used to track the network traffic does not have any advanced features to decode the OSCP communication\u00a0so I don&#8217;t know exactly what information Firefox requests from symcd.com.<\/p>\n<p>So, <strong>who owns symcd.com<\/strong>? The WHOIS database answer is <strong>Symantec Corporation<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<pre>Registrant Organization: Symantec Corporation\r\nRegistrant Street: 350 Ellis Street\r\nRegistrant City: Mountain View\r\nRegistrant State\/Province: CA\r\nRegistrant Postal Code: 94043\r\nRegistrant Country: US<\/pre>\n<p>Symcd.com was created on\u00a02013-12-12.<\/p>\n<p>I did not find much information about gv.symdc.com, and the reason for that is probably because there&#8217;s a large number of subdomains used. I found this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virustotal.com\/en\/domain\/g.symcd.com\/information\/\">list over at VirusTotal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>sm.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>gz.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>gp.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>tl.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>sn.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>tm.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>gq.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>sk.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>gw.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>si.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>gx.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>gk.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>s.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>sw.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>gu.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>sh.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>tf.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>t.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>tn.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>gv.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>ta.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>gd.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>st.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>tg.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>sr.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>sd.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>sf.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>sg.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>th.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>ga.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>gn.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>se.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>sv.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>tj.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>su.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>tb.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>ti.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>tc.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>sc.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>gm.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>sb.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>gb.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>ss.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>sj.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>gj.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>td.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>sa.symcd.com<\/li>\n<li>tk.symcd.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I checked a few of the domains, and they all resolved to the\u00a023.43.139.27 IP address.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morning! Hope you are having a great weekend. I&#8217;ve been experimenting with some network monitoring of HTTP requests and responses in Mozilla Firefox. While playing around with one of the tools I&#8217;m evaluating I noticed a request to\u00a0gv.symcd.com: I had not heard of the\u00a0symcd.com\u00a0domain before so I got curious. The request is a &#8220;application\/ocsp-request&#8220;.\u00a0OCSP\u00a0is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/symcd-com-online-certificate-status-protocol-server-owned-by-symantec-corporation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Symcd.com &#8211; Online Certificate Status Protocol Server Owned By Symantec Corporation<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[415,416],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4494"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8183,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494\/revisions\/8183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}