iphone making unusual, weird, strange DNS requests

Hey guys,
Iam experiencing exactly the same issues like this guy:iPad making unusual DNS requests


The requests looking like this:

uzhfodpjujzl.afs2zpprdl27wpcc.com

6grug3w6qyep61.njilkqtodt83269kpnl6v5.com

vdeic96td6p6g6djit.mpdnmxx8xnkv.com

gz0ydh93fpnpz.qkhgx3a38e3n27vzd4pmubr6p5.com

4qw72cldoaifh-.wxf86b4jutnn0n8uns032.com

m8r0qivfyvptl19-za.9a29uesnow7j9bzkxsj8k0r.com

m0hj22je.9xduspz-3lbw.com

10e1qydg0lbuac5fw-skjpi5n.fmwfpjj75p8iqkakweeq1.com

s1rfxbe4shiloqfwixla6rbos8o.41hg74liupg7dm7og.com

pj8vn6b1q-sixm.fu0qisem1ycsk8jpqp8ep-6eslt.com

vchj9457yb1.6q-6w4hzzdv7-f2rhzlva.com

2qjeu-5ooy2ijyn3nni9.clbh3bw7.com

l708bnpfn-j.m7gqzmy8.com

f6-i6n9pt8gpgtcs2lh8yk.la87krigknri.com

revji-9d3.u8l0etdavigqgksz11fpszllo.com

54gjohvlylrc8brgxeo985wv3.owpia1ui7zdcqd.com


I cant find any pattern how they appearing.

German Apple support says "Not an Apple issue. Sorry."


Anyone know where to find the DNS queries in an unencrypted backup?
Is there a logfile, plist or even sqlite file?
Anybody knows a way to see which process is firing up those DNS queries?

tcpdumps from iPhone to DNS and iPhone to Gateway are not suspicious (as far as I can tell).


All domains are not registered.

At twitter a guy DM'ed me a regex which is matching all the DNS queries:

^[a-z0-9-]{8,27}\.[a-z0-9-]{8,27}\.com$


In his case it led to a VPN software but I have no (obvious) VPN App/Software installed.


I have another 3 Apple devices in the same network without this behaviour.



Any reply will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Markus

iPhone 8, iOS 11.4.1, null

Posted on Aug 9, 2018 12:56 PM

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Sep 3, 2018 2:06 AM in response to manuel.apple314

Hi,


I was able to Narrow it down to Citrix Secure Hub.

As soon as I enroll my device with my company Mobile Device Management (Citrix XenMobile) it’s starting doing those weird DNS queries...

Currently some InfoSec folks on Twitter are waiting for further feedback from myself but due to vacation I had no time to respond.

So this issue is still open...

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