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Youssef ENNACIRI

Youssef ENNACIRI

Bypass JA3

3 min readJan 23, 2022

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JA3 fingerprints are now used by web servers to identify clients based on thier TLS ClientHello packets. when servers identify clients as malicious tools such as Brup, Nessus, Nexpose, … they get blocked.

How JA3 fingerprinting works ?

if you don’t know about JA3 please refer to this artcile to understant the concept and how it works then comeback :).

Check you JA3 fingerprint

curl -X GET ‘https://ja3er.com/json'

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Python

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Tried to change user-agent but it’s useless.

curl -X GET ‘https://ja3er.com/search/eaa1a9e1db47ffcca16305566a6efba4'

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How to bypass JA3 fingerprinting based detection

Well, it’s actually pretty simple to bypass this detection mecanisme, we can spoof the JA3 of Chrome and send our request and we won’t be blocked.

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Let’s see this scenario in action :

This Graph basically show how we are going to bypass JA3 fingerprints

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First part is using a non-browser application to access the web server which uses JA3 fingerprints detection, and i’m going to use a python script

Seconds part is to use ja3-proxy to intercept TLS ClientHello packets and tamper them to spoof JA3 fingerprints

Now we send the request to ja3er.com in order to see if our JA3 fingerprint has changed

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Apparently this proxy is not working but still we can bypass JA3

we start by importing ja3transport packages and run a GO script to connect to ja3er.com and retrieve JA3 fingerprint and indeed we recieved JA3 fingerprints of Mozilla/5.0

go get github.com/CUCyber/ja3transport

go run JA3TransportClient.go

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