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21 Feb 2026, 18:40 UTC · 59.7s ·v26.23.47

Engineer's Re-scan New Target

Target Assessment

Target Hardness: Hardened

4 defensive layers | 4 attack surface gaps

Email Spoofability Can you spoof email from this domain? No SPF and DMARC reject policy enforced

> analyzing sender authorization policy...

SPF — Sender Policy Framework

SPF is configured — sender authorization restricts spoofing

RFC 7208 — Sender Policy Framework

SPF allows domain owners to specify which mail servers are authorized to send email on behalf of their domain. Without SPF, any server can forge the envelope sender.

> enumerating cryptographic selectors...

DKIM — DomainKeys Identified Mail

DKIM selectors reveal mail infrastructure — signatures found

RFC 6376 — DomainKeys Identified Mail

DKIM provides cryptographic authentication of email messages. Selector names often reveal email providers (e.g., google, selector1 = Microsoft 365).

> evaluating enforcement policy...

DMARC — Domain-based Message Authentication

DMARC p=reject — hard enforcement. Spoofing will be rejected.

RFC 7489 — DMARC

DMARC ties SPF and DKIM together with a policy that tells receiving servers what to do with unauthenticated mail. p=none is monitoring only — attackers love it.

Transport Security Can you intercept email in transit? No No MTA-STS or DANE — mail transport encryption is opportunistic only

> probing certificate pinning via DNSSEC chain...

DANE / TLSA

No DANE — TLS is opportunistic and can be downgraded

MTA-STS

MTA-STS not enforced — STARTTLS stripping possible

TLS-RPT

No TLS-RPT — TLS failures go unnoticed by the domain owner

RFC 8460 — SMTP TLS Reporting

TLS-RPT enables reporting of TLS negotiation failures. Without it, STARTTLS downgrade attacks leave no trace.

Brand & Certificate Security Can you fake this brand's identity? Unlikely DMARC reject policy blocks email spoofing (RFC 7489 §6.3) and BIMI with VMC provides verified brand identity in inboxes — email-based brand faking is effectively blocked; adding CAA records (RFC 8659) would further restrict certificate issuance for lookalike domains

BIMI

BIMI configured — brand logo verified in email clients. Harder to impersonate visually.

CAA — Certificate Authority Authorization

No CAA — any CA on earth can issue a valid certificate for this domain. An attacker can obtain a trusted cert from the cheapest, fastest CA and stand up a convincing HTTPS phishing clone or MitM proxy.

RFC 8659 — CAA

CAA records specify which Certificate Authorities are authorized to issue certificates. Without CAA, an attacker could obtain a valid cert from any CA.

DNS Infrastructure Can you poison the DNS? Possible DNSSEC is not deployed, DNS responses are not cryptographically verified

> validating cryptographic chain of trust...

DNSSEC

No DNSSEC — DNS responses can be spoofed or poisoned

RFC 4033–4035 — DNSSEC

DNSSEC adds cryptographic signatures to DNS responses, preventing cache poisoning and response forgery. Without DNSSEC, an attacker can forge DNS answers.

NS Delegation

0 nameservers detected — single point of failure

Attack Surface Discovery What can you find from the outside?

Subdomain Discovery (Multi-Source)

0 subdomains discovered via CT logs + DNS probing + Nmap SAN extraction

Subdomain
`map[cert_count:4 first_seen:2025-03-26T00:00:00 is_current:true issuers:[Amazon] name:aaz.stellar.cnn.com source:ct]`
`map[cert_count:1 first_seen:2025-05-06T00:00:00 is_current:true issuers:[Amazon] name:academy.cnn.com source:ct]`
`map[cert_count:12 first_seen:2025-02-20 is_current:true issuers:[Amazon GlobalSign nv-sa] name:account.cnn.com source:dns]`
`map[cert_count:4 first_seen:2025-04-15T00:00:00 is_current:true issuers:[Amazon] name:admin.alertshub.cnn.com source:ct]`
`map[cert_count:2 first_seen:2025-08-13T00:00:00 is_current:true issuers:[Amazon] name:admin.dev.alertshub.cnn.com source:ct]`
`map[cert_count:1 first_seen:2025-03-12T00:00:00 is_current:true issuers:[Amazon] name:admin.ref.alertshub.cnn.com source:ct]`
`map[cert_count:4 first_seen:2025-03-26T00:00:00 is_current:true issuers:[Amazon] name:ads-analytics.stellar.cnn.com source:ct]`
`map[cert_count:1 first_seen:2025-08-13T00:00:00 is_current:true issuers:[Amazon] name:ads.next.cnn.com source:ct]`
`map[cert_count:12 cname_target:www.cnn.com first_seen:2025-02-20 is_current:true issuers:[Amazon GlobalSign nv-sa] name:alerts.cnn.com source:dns]`
`map[cert_count:4 first_seen:2025-02-02T00:00:00 is_current:true issuers:[Amazon] name:alertshub.cnn.com source:ct]`
`map[cert_count:1 first_seen:2025-04-15T00:00:00 is_current:true issuers:[Amazon] name:any-amer.apne1.prd.api.bolt.cnn.com source:ct]`
`map[cert_count:1 first_seen:2025-04-15T00:00:00 is_current:true issuers:[Amazon] name:any-amer.aps1.prd.api.bolt.cnn.com source:ct]`
`map[cert_count:1 first_seen:2025-04-15T00:00:00 is_current:true issuers:[Amazon] name:any-amer.aps1.stg.api.bolt.cnn.com source:ct]`
`map[cert_count:1 first_seen:2025-04-15T00:00:00 is_current:true issuers:[Amazon] name:any-amer.apse1.prd.api.bolt.cnn.com source:ct]`
`map[cert_count:1 first_seen:2025-04-15T00:00:00 is_current:true issuers:[Amazon] name:any-amer.apse1.stg.api.bolt.cnn.com source:ct]`
`map[cert_count:50 first_seen:2025-10-09T00:00:00 is_current:true issuers:[Amazon] name:any-amer.dev.api.bolt.cnn.com source:ct]`
`map[cert_count:1 first_seen:2025-04-15T00:00:00 is_current:true issuers:[Amazon] name:any-amer.euc1.prd.api.bolt.cnn.com source:ct]`
`map[cert_count:1 first_seen:2025-04-15T00:00:00 is_current:true issuers:[Amazon] name:any-amer.euc1.stg.api.bolt.cnn.com source:ct]`
`map[cert_count:1 first_seen:2025-04-15T00:00:00 is_current:true issuers:[Amazon] name:any-amer.eun1.prd.api.bolt.cnn.com source:ct]`
`map[cert_count:1 first_seen:2025-04-15T00:00:00 is_current:true issuers:[Amazon] name:any-amer.euw1.prd.api.bolt.cnn.com source:ct]`

SaaS Services (TXT Record Discovery)

9 SaaS services detected via DNS TXT verification records

Microsoft 365 Stripe Google Workspace Adobe Canva MongoDB Atlas Cisco Umbrella Atlassian Facebook / Meta

Secret Exposure

No exposed secrets detected in common paths

Intelligence Metadata Can you verify this independently?

SHA-3-512 Integrity Hash

86f6b2fe304915b3dba99c0ba0ed253981995ca40574e3969aaad2707ca8639d141f3a157b693405009ba4cf4ef343c5e8f5bfdc374a93299d5d06611d184dd3

RFC References

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