Deception, Obfuscation & Misdirection
This is a concatenation of posts I originally made in 2016-2017--even more relevant today...
Most are familiar with the concept of #FUD—short for #Fear, #Uncertainty & #Doubt. It summarizes a strategy often used in marketing and political propaganda. Its effects are pernicious, divisive and lead to exploitation. Examples abound. Fear is a strong motivator! To resist FUD one must understand how it is practiced using the principles of #Deception, #Obfuscation and #Misdirection.
https://mdpaths.com/rrr/commentary/deception_obfuscation_misdirection/index.html
Reverse Engineering Tiktok's VM Obfuscation (Part 1)
Dropped a new blog post where I detail the start of my journey into TikTok's VM based obfuscation.
So far only covers the discovery of the script and how I dumped strings from each "program"
Hi! Figured I would show everyone what I've been working on for my introduction. Looking forward to making tons of friends here :)
Been reverse-engineering TikTok / Douyin's VM based web security in my free time. Got to a point where I'm able to extract strings from the bytecode. Here's a few cool dumps