Cybersecurity-Projects/PROJECTS/intermediate/ja3-ja4-tls-fingerprinting/testdata/pcap/PROVENANCE.md

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Test capture provenance

Every capture file in this directory is vendored, bit for bit, from the FoxIO JA4 reference repository. None of them were created or modified here, and the SHA-256 digests below let anyone verify that claim offline.

Source

  • Repository: https://github.com/FoxIO-LLC/ja4
  • Commit: 4ab8e3f18f4b27e0b896c4ec2c251e20506eb87e (fetched 2026-06-10)
  • Path within the repository: pcap/
  • Fetch URL pattern: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FoxIO-LLC/ja4/<commit>/pcap/<file>

Licensing

The FoxIO repository carries two licenses at the commit above: LICENSE-JA4 (BSD 3-Clause, covering the JA4 TLS client fingerprint) and LICENSE (FoxIO License 1.1, covering the JA4+ suite). These capture files are the repository's own test fixtures and are redistributed here unmodified, with attribution, solely as test inputs for this non-commercial educational project. See NOTICE.md at the project root for how the licensing split applies to this project as a whole.

Files

File SHA-256 Why it is here
tls-handshake.pcapng 5a0c9f3d0f437e16fc68c3ce0d87998edf4f229b335c391361ed301bd22a513e TLS 1.3 handshake; anchors the published JA4S vector t130200_1301_234ea6891581
tls-alpn-h2.pcap 8c00fd3e6c370b39dac61ad3a15c693088f74f3dbc836ee4e8f57105b1e84a91 TLS 1.2 with ALPN h2; anchors the published JA4 vector t12d4605h2_85626a9a5f7f_aaf95bb78ec9 and the JA4X DigiCert chain vectors
tls12.pcap d8c9ae8781c9bbba3a1bf5a95d7a6f309a3edd14c64a7c8adbc673d337fd5af4 Minimal TLS 1.2 ClientHello
tls-non-ascii-alpn.pcapng cf1dd939619b8d65904dfd23b4f21c3255b6f513dc2e12117d5de2633d063f71 ALPN value with non-ASCII bytes; exercises the spec-vs-reference divergence (FoxIO issue 178)
chrome-cloudflare-quic-with-secrets.pcapng b7c9de1238aef44d53dbe1add125a7b9e344e9063b98850c78dec23632b83942 Chrome to Cloudflare; TCP stream anchors the published JA4 vector t13d1516h2_8daaf6152771_e5627efa2ab1, QUIC stream reserved for the QUIC milestone
browsers-x509.pcapng e05937fe5f3659f1b94b46305e419b878ba309ebcba8308750acaac704112906 Browser certificate chains for JA4X over real captures
http1-with-cookies.pcapng 7083ca41bcd09b21cb92e7f2d5bd09d73f25703be8555bb82642c2495eb15ef9 Cleartext HTTP/1.1 request with cookies for JA4H over a reassembled stream
gre-erspan-vxlan.pcap 5bbdb30a0707e21070ece3cd26068f72c34a0750d97c1e7720166cb4d0baf6d6 Tunneled traffic; proves the decoder skips what it does not understand instead of crashing
CVE-2018-6794.pcap d1aa18b493bc68bf7cb367ce5fc1ee493262b47baff886bbe42533e7495d8b1d TCP stream evasion capture; torture input for the reassembler
quic-with-several-tls-frames.pcapng 8d2c8a6787b942091aa63e33bde9f28c214b306dc024a66c552077ad30640e71 QUIC initial with CRYPTO frames split across packets, reserved for the QUIC milestone

Verifying

cd testdata/pcap && sha256sum *.pcap *.pcapng

Compare the output against the table above. Any mismatch means a file no longer matches what FoxIO published at the pinned commit.