Ultimate Cyberwarfare for Evasive Cyber Tactics: Unravel the Techniques of Cyberwarfare, Hacktivism and Asymmetric Conflicts for Tactical Excellence with Real-world Use Cases and Strategic Insights by Chang Tan

Author:Chang Tan [Tan, Chang]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9788196890315
Publisher: Orange Education Pvt Ltd, AVA™
Published: 2024-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

Enhanced Interrogation Techniques

Another point we want to make is that humans lie without knowing about it. Every statement that comes out of their mouths, or keyboards, has an element of truth and a lie within it. It’s a lesson I learned from reading The Art of Cross Examination by Francis Wellman in 1903. It’s also a really good reference for trial lawyers and social engineers. This book is now available for free online.

On Page 31 of his book, even an unsuspecting liar can be revealed if they have fabricated to themselves a story from start to finish. First, ask the “witness” to recount the story from start to end while taking notes. Then, ask the witness to repeat the story, not from the beginning, but from the middle to the end, back to the beginning, or from middle, start, to end. If someone is lying under oath, the fallacies quickly develop, and the facts will distort, which gives the trial attorney an opportunity to throw away fabricated evidence.

Standard operating procedures for interrogations practiced by Federal Law Enforcement against suspects and members of the intelligence community with non-domestic mission scope (outside of the United States) basically involve an “unfair trade of information”.

The idea is similar to a game of chess. The interrogator supplies information that may sound useful but is either an outright lie, a half-truth, or useless information. The person being interrogated is enticed into giving up something useful to the interrogator that will further their mission. Whether it is to score prosecutions/indictments or to recruit third-party proxies (“assets”) or gather intelligence, all of this is a form of passive interrogation without the use of torture.

These are the foundations of tradecraft since The Cold War when multiple agencies worked together (or in their own secret programs) to fight spies from various bureaus of The Soviet Union.

In other words, you should treat every conversation with your target as a duel or battle.

I implemented my form of an Enhanced Interrogation Technique where I intentionally provided something useful, in this case, an obfuscated reverse shell, only to remove its usefulness by the second day of Pros vs. Joes from the opposing teams that knew about it. I redistributed a reobfuscated payload to my older brother’s team, investing only twelve minutes to find the relevant sections to change so that its signature is substantially altered to continue bypassing modern antivirus signature definitions I added sandbox evasion techniques that execute useless computations in a loop before it escapes the sandbox and reobfuscated the deobfuscation-loop for loading various DLL functions from the classic Windows Sockets Library at runtime.

Other resources I used included social-engineering tricks and techniques to produce “targeting packages”, as described by the Central Intelligence Agency’s “Targeting Officers” by Jack Rhysider, Pickup Artist Training from Real Social Dynamics, as well as the bare fundamentals of Neural Linguistic Programming. Widely panned to be a “pseudoscience” by the Central Intelligence Agency in the early 2010s, it’s the more grandiose claims of Neural Linguistic Programming that are infeasible.

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