I was playing around with Wireshark when I noticed something very suspicious: every time I open Firefox (official build from Ubuntu repos), it immediately connects to a server with an apparently random name like d2ddoduugvun08.cloudfront.net
and sends some encrypted data.
I couldn't find anything specific on this domain, but it pops up on some malware sites.
At first I thought it was some Firefox telemetry server but it is disabled and the server is not a Mozilla server.
I deleted my ~/.mozilla
folder, in case my profile was the problem, but the connection was still there every time.
At this point I thought my installation of Firefox was compromised, so I purged it and redownloaded it from the repos. The connection was still there.
I moved to another machine with Windows, and it doesn't make this connection; when I booted into an Ubuntu live USB, it does.
I decided to build Firefox from source and it does not make this connection.
I tried to use mitmproxy
to intercept it but it ignores my system proxy settings.
So my question is: is this a legit thing added by Canonical? Is the Firefox package on Ubuntu compromised by some malware?
Thanks